Dirty Desk and CSS
I swear every morning I come into work My desk is totally run up with papers, pens, books, magazines and other crap, and every morning I pretty much clean it all up. Is my work day that much of a Hurricane? I don’t think so, it’s more of the zone i get myself into sometimes and ignore everything around me. Plus any one who knows me, knows my obsession with sticky notes. Anyway,
I’ve jumped into this project here at work that I am quite excited about. We took on a task to design and develop a website for a conference coming to town in a few days. Cool thing is we were given pretty much freedom to do whatever we want. One thing we decided, was to build the whole thing using style sheets (CSS) The main advantage for this on the user end I think is accessability. With no tables or heavy images, style sheets makes it easy for all browsers screen readers etc to view the important content from a web site. On the administrator end, If you attach one sheet to all your pages you then only have to change the attributes to your sheet and it effects all of your pages. No more Changing each Page one by one. You then might ask “well you can do that in Dreamweaver with templates” good point. Im certainly no css expert but am learning. that was one reson to do the site using css, to learn it better. One thing I do know is that ie and other browsers each look at style sheets a bit different so there is some discreprencies(sp?) At this point i’m still not 100% convinced that style sheets are the it, but I think its the way to go and there are thousands that stand behind it and i assume as i become more fluent i too will see the light. We’ll just have to wait and see