I’ve been mucking about with the CSS styles for sknoblog. The layout in WordPress, the system powering this, is controlled 99% via cascading style sheets (I’m usually lazy and resort to using tables a lot to layout my pages).
An interesting (and ongoing) little experiment in user interface design (To give you an idea, this is the design that is installed by default).
The power of CSS styles is certainly great, but it saddens me to see that web authoring has been totally hijacked by the technoid crowd. Pretty much anyone can master basic HTML, but I can’t even begin to imagine explaining object models, inheritance and the like to, say, my brother.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take a look at Dave Hyatt’s weblog. He’s the lead developer of Apple’s Safari browser, and it is truly mind-boggling to read of his struggles with the plumbing behind rendering web pages. I don’t understand most of what he’s talking about, but that’s the point…