Monday, October 29, 2007

CSS 101

My presentation this go round was on the basics of CSS. I didn't go much into the specific properties of CSS (you can look those up anywhere), but there are certain things that I think are important that they won't teach you in normal tutorials. For example, you should never name a CSS class based on what the end output is going to look like. If you're going to create a news column on the right-hand side of your page, call the CSS selector "news" and not "rightcolumn!" It will only cause you headaches when your boss tells you next week that he likes the news box on the left-hand side.

Without further ado, here is the presentation:

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