@unknownuser said:
Richard...Although this is great stuff you are showing it is not for us beginners yet
I agree with that, I just felt it was worthwhile showing it. At the moment (from what i have read) you are explaining very well the basics of web design, and the people following your advice should start to understand the structure of a web page (as well as an understanding of some of the html behind what they see) and may in the future see the benefit in .css. and you'd probably be surprised at how easy some of it is to convert
@unknownuser said:
We need to be able to control elements of the page independently. The template approach that Sitebuilder lets us build is surprisingly powerful and affords complete control. As well .css is somewhat limiting when it comes to independant page marking...not sure why anyone would build a site that is less than 100 pages with .css. By the way I am not personally impressed with .css as you know.. slaping down the same static theme for every page on a site is well..noticable...every single well designed page just looks like the last one.
It may be the way i'm interpreting what you said above (and forgive me if i'm mistaken), but it sounds like you don't like sites which have a consistant design throughout. I agree though that some sites it is too noticable and would suggest that it is because the quality of the design outweighs the quality of the content.
@unknownuser said:
If I seem a bit turse please forgive me...this is good advise.
you don't seem turse at all, we have a difference of opinions and its a good debate, which would probbaly be best left for another thread (i don't want to confuse things too much!)
@unknownuser said:
(unless you are happy removing your entire engine each time you need to clean a spark plug)
I have to disagree with that comment. The biggest advantage of using .css (at least in my opinion) is that content and presentation are separate. Content can effortlessly be changed without effecting presentation, and presentation can be changed across the entire site without effecting the actual content.
@gaieus said:
Plus is you don't build a static site, you'll need them for sure
I agree with Gai on this, not using .css on a dynamic site would be far too difficult.