John, >From my personal experience, I first always recommend others take a look over at HTMLDog (1) and get to know the tutorials going on there.
Second thing I always aim for is consistent markup through your pages. If you're building each webpage with a different naming structure, you can't fully take advantage of the "C" you desire to have. Therefore, I spend however much time I need to coming up with a "template" for naming. An example would be: All my pages contain tags in the order of body, followed by divs outerwrapper and wrapper. (I do funky background things, so outerwrapper is needed). Then, three children inside wrapper, header, main, and footer. Main then has a section tag applied to it in a child div, which gives me the ability to change styles in a local stylesheet based on selectivity. I hope this is what you needed, and I know others in this list will offer far better advice than myself, but if you need any clarification, let me know. -Jack 1: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/ On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:13 PM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using CSS for a couple years now, but most of what I've > done is emulate code I've seen and bang it into the form I need it to > be. > Often this works mostly, but then a certain situation or another's > computer will reveal embarrassing rookie mistakes. > > In addition to simply racking up enough keyboard time to know tags > and how to write good code, I need to find a way to "get" the sense > of "Cascading" and what that means..I need to know it in my bones, if > you know what I mean. > > The closest thing I have to relate to is either Quark or InDesign > styles, where you can have styles with "Based on" or "Next Style" > styles, but in CSS, it seems to be much more than that, and my lack > of knowledge makes me like a deer in the headlights when confronted > with my bad code, why it's bad, and how to make it good. > > Any suggestions on a spot on line with a good explanation of the > cascading relationship(s)? > > thanks for reading this plea! > > John > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
