Status Report On The Workbook

25 September 2003

Tonight I completed Chapter 4 of Elizabeth Castro’s book. I’ve been creating all of the pages she suggests by hand. Many of mine are better than the one’s at her web site because I’m changing the titles so that they agree with the corresponding section of the book.

Another wish that I have is that the book wasn’t cluttered with quite so much of the ”wrong way” to do things. For example, if there is a preferred method when trying to decide between [i] or [em] or [span class=”emph”], let’s pick the right one and leave the others alone. It’s fine to know that people who developed web sites once had to take all those things into consideration, but today, some of the answers must be more obvious. Remember, the direction seems to be:

  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • web standards
  • accessibility
  • PHP
If these are the things we’re pursuing, then let’s simply list the tags that are available for us? Otherwise, CSS becomes the answer.

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