I recently had a discussion with Mhairi about a possible project. Mhairi had a client who wished to add a blog to her site and she asked if I could provide her with a quote. Unfortunately, the website was built with ColdFusion and thus I told her that I wouldn’t be able to work on it because I’m simply not familiar with that tool. Mhairi was a bit confused at first and unsure why the code should matter.
Yesterday, I was invited to have lunch at Twin Fish Creative‘s monthly staff get together. Since, I’ve been doing a lot of work with them, I thought I would take the opportunity to explain what I do to their Photoshop files and more specifically how CSS is used.
What’s this CSS?
HTML tags were originally designed to define the content of a document. They were supposed to say “This is a header”, “This is a paragraph”, “This is a table”, by using tags like <h1>, <p>, <table>, and so on. The layout of the document was supposed to be taken care of by the browser, without using any formatting tags.
WordPress makes it pretty easy for someone to post messages, create categories and manage comments and blogroll without knowing any HTML. Having said that, a basic knowledge of HTML can be quite useful.