Jina Bolton - @jina - Mastering CSS Layouts

• Mastering CSS is really about mastering your workflow. Have a system for starting each project.
  • Idea: Keep content images and layout images in separate folders
• Comment your CSS!
  • Reference colors at the beginning
  • Use CSS Flags to organize sections
  • Make a "table of contents" so other team members know where to find things
• Balance readability and optimization
• Avoid using floats so that you don't have to define widths for your elements; let elements use normal flow
• On outermost containers, set line-height: 0--then assign actual line-heights to your individual elements. This helps avoid gap-issues
• Sometimes using a "safe hack" is better than creating another stylesheet for something.