Am I Doing This Right? (HTML/CSS)

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Nate_Weller

New Member
My web design skills are still in their infancy, so my sites are pretty basic looking.

However, I am just wondering if I am doing things the right way:

I am making static HTML and CSS pages. I create the HTML and CSS pages separately, and connect the stylesheet to the html page in the header.

Then, I link html elements to styles through classes and ids. If I am correct, classes are for more than one thing, and ids are supposed to be used for only one item in a page?

Anyways, I am just wondering if it is better to apply styles directly in the html element or keep doing what I am doing by having all the styles in a separate css file.

Also if there are any big mistakes that a lot of new people do, please point these out as well so I can avoid them!

Thanks
 
Phreaddee

Phreaddee

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Staff member
Do not do any styling in the html. Do it all in the css.

So far so good.

Avoid tables and absolute positioning...
 
ronaldroe

ronaldroe

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Phreadee pretty much said it. The only thing I'd add is learn the box model, well. Also, gain a good understanding of float (and clearing it) as well as how positioning works. Between those and WYSIWYG, I'd say they cover 80-90% of the questions that come up.
 
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