HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

1.7. Why Bother?

Well, now that you have a basic overview of what CSS is all about, why we have it, and why I think it's an important technique for Web designers to adopt, where's the proof? Let's look at an example of a small, but not overly simplistic Web page (see Figure 1-4).

Figure 1-4. Sample Web Page Demonstrating Embedded Styles

Using embedded CSS, here's the HTML that will produce that page. Look ma, no tables! Don't let the complexity of the code intimidate you—by the end of Chapter 3, you should be able to infer the meaning of most of it without my help. For now, you can download the code archive from the book's Website and marvel ...