CSS and CSS and CSS and CSS and...

This weeks reading started to focus on the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to layout and style a webpage. We looked at three core concepts:

• How does CSS syntax work?
• What accessibility considerations have to be made when using CSS?
• How do we use CSS in Dreamweaver?

Having already used CSS in the last project with accessibility as a goal, I didn't really think of it in the same terms the WebAIM article did. While I ended up with essentially the same thing, I never really thought about "What happens if I open this in a text-only browser?" I definitely didn't really think about display order, though, again, I kinda did it as a result of the way I like to attack the code anyway. Now that I'm conscious of it, I think it will play a bit more into my coding process and will certainly find it's way into my web-testing.

I also really appreciated the look into how to get CSS going in Dreamweaver, especially an external stylesheet. This will become ver useful in the next project, which requires an external stylesheet. Fortunately, I had already unintentionally exposed myself to a lot of the CSS theory, so I was able to focus my reading on how to make Dreamweaver take the inputs I wanted and do meaningful things with them.