May 17, 2005

What to say about CSS?

At work, I’m get­ting to teach a basic CSS course for our producers.

I had a blast teach­ing advanced copy editing/basic news­pa­per design when I was in grad school, so the chance to teach again is great!

The trou­ble I’m having is how to boil CSS/structural XHTML down to a 3-hour course. The target audi­ence is our pro­duc­ers, who in addi­tion to focus­ing on con­tent, also tend to do a fair amount of design.

I’m start­ing off with the quick points of how to write valid HTML, then how to write it struc­turally, the ques­tion is how deep should I go into CSS. Once could quickly get mired down in cross-​browser insan­ity, box-​model hacks, etc.

Right now my plan is teach them text styling first, and then follow it up tran­si­tional layout skills (using min­i­mal tables to con­trol layout).

Has anyone else out there run up against a sim­i­lar prob­lem? Any suggestions?

Filed under: Journalism,Web design

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