I can't get away from the idea that coding CSS is a guessing game for beginners. My process lately has digressed into:
1. Guess the best measures for different margins and colors.
2. Save the document.
3. Cross fingers.
4. Close one eye (somehow disappointment is better through one eye at a time).
5. Refresh browser or preview screen.
6. Sigh.
7. Guess again.
I am very thankful for layout generators, but that only gets you so far.
After our last project site, a site comprised of two to three pages, I've added one more criteria to my website design checklist: Check on another computer. I had checked the site in other browsers on my laptop, but it looked significantly different on my work computer. I think it had something to do with my default browser font size because my text looked huge on the other computer.
Now, I'm not only guessing against what I can see in the five browsers I have on my computer, but also against what I can't see on other's screens. I'm having a hard time adjusting to that!
In other news, I'm excited about the added design properties available in CSS3 we've just started looking at in class. Hoorah for text-shadow!
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