[BNM] CSS pleasure/jelly, cake and fizzy pop all round

[Yan_fit-pixels]

delarge wrote:
> Yan - think of the html page as an empty box - or a new round on tetris...
> How you fill the box from top to bottom or how you let the blocks fall into
> it is controlled by your css file... some will fall into place snugly - some
> will step aside to let others through, some will float in mid air, some will
> push all the others away...
>
> damn - deep huh?
> any better css analogies welcome....
>   
Wise words all round but why does it have to be so 
mongolian-cluster-f***ingly arcane.
Surely in this day and age I should just be able to drag my stuff to 
exactly where I want it to go and there it will stay.
I constantly a have high pitched voice of outrage at the back of my mind 
which screams "this should be easy, this should be easy" only more loudly.

Does nobody else find this odd (not the voice in my head, xhtml/css) 
since the interweb is probably the single most important development in 
communications since the telephone, tv and most salient of all the cb radio.
Or is it a conspiracy to keep it in the hands of the illuminati.

I'm not unintelligent, I've authored many training courses for vtc over 
the years for all sorts of things sometimes never having used them 
before so it's not like I can't grasp a concept pretty sharpish.

I've been producing sites in html from the early days of the web but 
I've never ever felt comfortable or in control and had hoped that this 
more technical skill was being recognised as such and a proper division 
of labour was being sensibly pursued between developers and designers.
Or at least it was in london agencies which I worked at until moving to 
worthing a while back.

Having spent long enough now perusing wired sussex etc. it appears that 
designers not only need to be intimately acquainted with css but  often 
there appears to be a requirement that you be excellent with php, asp, 
mysql, dna sequencing and, sometimes, jesuit influenced theology as well.

Still, nobody said it was going to be easy and I am getting there.

Sadly though, tetris fills me with inertia and ennui.


thanks
Yan