In this article I’ll be covering why CSS is important, and why you should learn to design websites with it, instead of shunning it. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are definitely the style-sheet language of choice right now, using it for styling XHTML among other things gives a lot of power to both the end-user of the XHTML document and to the developer themselves. It used to be that the foremost way of doing things in web design was to create a table spanning the page, and then use HTML elements to apply background images to each cell. This was the most commonplace method of designing for many years, until that is CSS reared its head.

The problem is that many people who learned to design web pages using tables don’t necessarily want to learn how to properly use CSS. At first CSS layouts can seem quite daunting, and may appear to the developer to be a complete waste of time, there’s more than one way to skin a cat right? What’s up with my way if it looks good?

Accessibility, CSS, Semantics, Tutorial, Web Design

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Welcome to the new and much improved Cabbagination! I’m back from a year or so of blogging absence caused by a couple of reasons, one being that I let the old blog sit there collecting dust and the domain expired, the other being that I didn’t have all too much to write about. The latter shouldn’t be a problem anymore as I’m much more involved in web design and development than I was before, and I’m always working on things here and there.

In the next couple of months (and hopefully well into the future) this will be home to my general musings, experiments, and all sorts of random web design and development related junk.

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