The evolution of a modern web designer. The 12 steps:
- Realize that CSS/XHTML design – separating content from presentation – is the wave of the future.
(BTW, this should have happened to you years ago) - Start learning CSS.
- Start despising Internet Explorer and by proxy, Microsoft (even more than you already do).
- Spend countless hours learning CSS hacks and obscure bugs to make all the browsers play nice.
- Waste many hours of your life yelling at your screen.
- Build your very first validating CSS/XHTML website without a table in sight.
- Bask in your own glory and sense of accomplishment.
- Scoff at the work of others, develop an odd sense of grandeur and superiority over others.
- [Insert a montage here of you progressing in your work]
- Come to a very important realization that no one cares.
(No one except other coders/purists/CSS-nazis) - (Optional) Realize there are people better than you at coding CSS and start outsourcing it.
- Zen.
I myself am convinced that CSS/XHTML are worth the effort (I haven’t done a site that’s table-based in ages). But it’s funny the progression that takes place over time.