for the love of GOD!
I can't deal with people who do "web design" that don't know a dang thing about CSS. Look people, it's GOOD for you! It makes stylizing and formatting text and information very simple and avoids things like " " everywhere to space out your text.
(thuds head on desk)
This springs from my current web project at work. I am "updating" a customer service response form that a guy at one of our other shops made who "dabbles around in code." I'm having a meeting with him soon, in which case I am going to point him to a few good CSS/XML books and get him to join the world of the now.
His code looks like crazy, whacked out HTML confetti exploded all over it. It's like wading through mud to get anything done.
For web dorks out there, here is a ACTUAL piece of code I found today:
<font face="Arial" size="2"><strong> </strong>Following Instructions</font></td>
Yeah, you read that right. He made the font bold, then unbolded it to create an indent... THEN he made the font size "2" only to not insert any font in the area and then terminated the font size he just specified and never used for anything.
This is like 1/256 of the wacky code in this thing.
SIGH. I'm going to just recreate the form, as I think it'll take less time...