I just picked this article from ALA for our graphic designer in department who is great but always Afraid of CSS and Standards. The article is by by Ben Henick who was himself concerned by this problem and take two years to break out of the comfortable prison of layout tables, and another two years before he could use CSS to produce layouts that were originally intended for tables. And the moral of the story should be clear: it took me a long while to achieve genuine mastery of CSS.
The buzz about Web 2.0, CSS, and myriad other subjects of the bleeding edge can become a dull roar to those left ill-equipped for industry changes because of work habits adopted in good faith years before. It is my hope that the experience I
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Thanks for linking to the article!
As I point out in my comments, much of that time dragged out precisely because I’m kinda lazy. However, the whole task is about knowing how to stay calm and stay in control of one’s own creativity.
As for the graphic designer issue…
In a perfect world, graphic designers would let go pixel-perfection across browsers (presentation in IE looking just like presentation in Firefox etc.) but still insist on (and work toward) solid consistency across a given site.