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My CSS came back

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A graphical depiction of a very simple css document

Now that CSS Naked Day is over, my blogs are back with their CSS and Images on. I consider this day as a great initiative for CSS and web standards and against those who still use tables for their layouts (and those animated gifs stuffed into the cells of those tables)…

When I first got to know CSS, I wondered how entire layouts could be made with it. I was well aware that links and images could be styled using some lines of CSS, but that was all. Until one sunny day, a friend of mine saw my table layout and said: “Yeah, it’s good, but…” Me: “But…what?” He: “CSS is better! -) ” Back home I started to look for some tutorials on how to create a website layout using CSS only, and ended up at Selfhtml. I downloaded and studied the example three-column layout given there, and experimented with it, trying to do something of my own. The first time I failed. The second time I was about to give up. By layout 1001 I discovered my new worst enemy: IE.

No way out: I took out my CSS hack sword and indulged in the everlasting duel -)

By the year 2008, the duel is still in progress, but my sword has sharpened compared to the past. Still, I think it could be much sharper than it is today and practise my skills, because it is simply so much fun. Beware, IE 6 -)
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This was written by Daniela on April 10th, 2008 and filed under: CSS, HTML, XHTML. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

6 Comments so far to “My CSS came back”

  1. gravatar Ivy left a comment on April 11th, 2008 at 8:43 am :

    I’ve given up on IE. Not that I want to. It’s just that they’ve discontinued IE for Macs, so it’s impossible to see how my site looks like on IE without begging someone for a screenshot or busting out my 5 year old Sony Vaio.

  2. gravatar Chita left a comment on April 13th, 2008 at 6:27 am :

    I love CSS =D
    I don’t know what I would do without it. Seriously.
    Tables are so old school man xP Yet some people are STILL in love with it.

    I use IE. I had FF before but Norton Internet Security is blocking it, when i downloaded the new version. I am deprived of FF and let me tell you, i am NOT happy about that >.<

  3. gravatar tina left a comment on April 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm :

    Hmm I don’t know much about CSS D I’m such a beginner in webdesign which is indicated by the fact that my blog is kind of a “pagebuilder” thingy D
    But maybe I’ll try to design something myself when I have more time.

  4. gravatar tina left a comment on April 14th, 2008 at 7:14 pm :

    Thanks for the comment,but it is all good now,it was just a misunderstanding )
    I haven’t been to any gay parties so far,the one on May 10th will be my first cause I have only recently come out ) But I’m sure I will go hit the Cologne scene very soon )

  5. gravatar tina left a comment on April 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm :

    Why? What happened at work?

  6. gravatar Nel left a comment on April 15th, 2008 at 6:09 pm :

    Hey Daniella! good to see your site back to its usual self, it shows what you can achieve with css alone instead of using tables and iframes and stuff. I just shudder when I think about my old layouts crammed with tables, loud annoying music and text type, lol.