Rodent Regatta

This quote, if true, means I’ve got to be nearing the expert status in the very narrow field of reading(not doing mind you) web design instructions and documents.

Niels Bohr. ”An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” [Quotes of the Day]

Actually, I’m attempting to learn several things at once. It’s pretty clear that you must know how to edit templates in Radio if you are to change the look of your weblog. This results in either: 1) alterations to an existing ”theme” or 2) creation of a new theme. I suppose you could also start modifying the templates and wind up with something that you don’t publish as a new theme.
In addition to learning templates, I’m trying to learn HTML. So far, no problem with the concepts and tagging text. As I stare at a blank page or a page of text that needs to be for HTML, placing the correct tags in the proper places to achieve the look is still a struggle.
Finally, there is something going on about CSS vs. tables and the more I read, the less I understand about the whole issue. Take a look at this post at Meryl’s site. If you follow the links, you’ll find some pretty interesting designs. Getting from there to a Radio weblog is still quite a leap.
I’d like to avoid the wrong side of this debate, but I can’t tell which is the right side of it. I think I understand (correctly?) that the standards bodies are advocating some ”pure” form of HTML and CSS provides that. I know less than enough to be dangerous here.
Thanks Russ for your continued documentation of Radio.