Cognitive Resonance

Whilst looking at examples of styling forms today, I came across this website by Stu Nicholls. A lot of very useful examples of CSS on there, not just forms…

CSS From the Ground Up has got some pointers from a usability perspective, whilst Jeff Howden has also posted some nice examples on his site.

I’ve also just come across Peter-Paul Koch’s excellent site QuirksMode, which looks very detailed and seems to provide a very good reference to many of the more puzzling CSS (and Javascript, and other) issues.

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I’ve been using Cascading Style Sheets for ages, but generally for 2 reasons: firstly to save code space (multiple <FONT> tags, etc.) and secondly to achieve certain things which couldn’t be done in pure HTML (such as styling table elements).

I’ve never really done much “advanced”* stuff – things like true multi column layouts, and really complicated child-grandchild relationships – I guess I’ve never had the need to. It’s high time I really sat down and learned about it really, as it’d not that complicated. In fact, I remember borrowing O’Reilly’s “Cascading Style Sheets – The Definitive Guide” from my University Library, and realising that most of it wasn’t that difficult, really. It just boils down to time!

What reminded me about this was a post on Alex King’s blog linking to this rather useful set of examples. I’d best start practising sometime soon then…

*When I say advanced, that is a relative term!

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