Thoughts on CSS

Cascading Style Sheets are powerful, infact in the right hands they are unstoppable. BUT for most of us they are the things that slow us down by making us think about what we are doing.

What do I mean - well when using style sheets we need to think about testing - what browsers will show our web sites well, what will work, what will not work. Although this is true about straight HTML sites with CSS its just one more uncertainty. You also need to think about the number of 'styles' your web site will have - if you are a good designer, or lazy you will not use lots of conflicting 'styles' in your web site - who needs 8 fonts, 22 colours (colors) and flashing? As you need to do a bit more up front work with CSS writing the styles you tend not to have all the style variants you can easily conjure up when doing it in HTML.

But once your site is CCSed changing is simple, especially if you used an attached CSS file - just make the change in one place and its reflected throughout your web site.