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10 Principles of the CSS Masters

10 excellent CSS principles to make your stylesheets easier to navigate, smaller in size and give you more control over how your website looks.

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what I really, really hate, is overblown CSS geniuses trying to elevate their personal preferences to the level of CSS DOGMA - from an unhealthy aversion to tables (doing all kinds of gyrations like an underage Chinese gymnast ) to, in this case, advocating mangling all CSS declarations unto one line.

Nothing particularly noteworthy in the article, the real gems are in the comments. Thumbs up nonetheless

#1: mark on 09/01 at 06:41 PM

It’s a shame people are rating this down and Mark’s not so happy with it. I know what you’re saying about ‘CSS geniuses’, at the end of the day they’re most likely no better than a majority of visitors to this site.

But I did think some of their points were valid, I came across the article and thought ‘yeh, there’s some insightful stuff here’ and so posted it on here. But obviously others don’t feel the same way.

I know it’s easy when you’re a wizz at CSS to knock this kind of articles down but I know when I was learning CSS I would have found something like this useful. Stuff like shorthand CSS, centering layouts and negative margins took me ages to discover, and it was only through hours of poring over other site’s code to learn it.

Anyway, Nettuts is still a great resource even if this post didn’t tickle your fancy.

#2: Nathan Beck on 09/02 at 03:12 AM

I’m not a wizz (or whiz) at CSS (tho I have literally taken a wizz on a few articles here or there) :)

The negative ratings and vote downs on this article are alas, well deserved.
First is personally (misguided) opinion being presented as fact: namely, gobbledygooking well formed CSS into one line as an aid to efficiency (when it was most clearly shown to be not so)

The negative margin ‘tip’ has to be taken with a grain of salt, so much salt in fact, that your blood pressure would go through the roof as you hunt down hitherto unencountered bugs in the browser everyone loves to hate, IE and it’s ilk! ( I hate CSSHOLES who code,test, teach and pretend that IE doesnt exit, 60% userbase be dammed!)

overall, the article was still somewhat good (and I said as much) except of course for the silly bits.

#3: mark on 09/03 at 12:20 AM
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