Man, you sound just like my coworker and I when we decided that we were officially more technically competent than our boss. We basically ordered him to stop using Dreamweaver because he kept going in to update little things on our sites and messing up all the code by opening and saving files in DreamWeaver. That was a good battle to win, though; our sites are so infinitely better now that we're using CSS and pretty much hand-coding everything. It opens up so many possibilities.
It is *really* hard to explain it to someone who is used to old style HTML, though. CSS is not really intuitive; it's easier in the short-term to just put the formatting right in there. It took me a while to understand, too: you have to look at the long-term benefits, which greatly exceed the short-term convenience.
(Oh, um, and LJ automatically tries to use HTML brackets; you have to encode them to get them to show up. Like, I used & l t ; and & g t ; --minus the spaces--to make < and >.)
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Date: 2004-01-03 01:31 am (UTC)It is *really* hard to explain it to someone who is used to old style HTML, though. CSS is not really intuitive; it's easier in the short-term to just put the formatting right in there. It took me a while to understand, too: you have to look at the long-term benefits, which greatly exceed the short-term convenience.
(Oh, um, and LJ automatically tries to use HTML brackets; you have to encode them to get them to show up. Like, I used & l t ; and & g t ; --minus the spaces--to make < and >.)