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You may recall my post of a couple months ago – Office Space, a New-School Web-Programming Geek, and a Business Name – in which I spoke of a new business partner and a new business venture. You may be wondering whatever came of that? Well, the business partner is still with me, and the business venture is still in the works … it’s just changed scope a bit (as ventures tend to do). It’s gotten more exciting!

Last week I came across this priceless article, in which the author states that, “The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people the worse that design gets. The same trend applies to the number of people involved in the design process.” And then he goes on to illustrate these points with some awesome graphs. ;o) Let me go on record by saying that this is SO TRUE.

This morning I received an email from someone who reads my blog. He asked, “Can you send me some links to help me become a tableless design guru? My group uses nested tables everywhere and I want to be the catalyst for change but … I am not up to par yet.” I have had some form of this question posed to me numerous times and, I’ll admit, I’ve been rather derelict in responding. So if you are one of my readers who have in the past asked me for links, books, or other recommendations on how to master CSS then please forgive my non-response. I applaud you for wanting to move forward and for your thirst for knowledge. I really do apologize if my lack of response presented you in any way with a little speed bump on your road to Web Standards.

The reason that I haven’t responded in the past is that, quite frankly, I felt overwhelmed … because I really didn’t know where to start. Sure, there are some pretty good books out there, and sure, there is quite a long lists of blogs that I try to visit regularly - and I will tell you what these are in a moment - but the truth is, at least for me, I had to pretty much eat, sleep, and breath CSS for a while before I even began to feel like I sorta kinda knew what I was doing.

So, how exactly do you eat, breath, and sleep CSS? Well, I can only tell you what I did …