Very nice website. Clean design and cool color theme. I loved it. :)

I am learning CSS while doing it, so relatively new. I have a question about reset.css. Why do you need it? I read you stated that “I don’t want any formatting on my websites that I didn’t specify.” Makes sense, but my css is already doing that for me. Why do I want my website to download 2 css files, when work can be done with one?

Thanks,
Prajakta

I was in an attempt of gathering several style resetting opinions of different people so I could compare them with mine and create some variety in resetting my styles; such a search would have -of course- included Eric Meyer’s Reset CSS, Yahoo! UI ‘s Reset CSS, your as well as the one I had been using for a while.

I found your styling is not “zeroing all the CSS” but it’s a great asset for starting a new XHTML web page by turning the fundamental aspects of web page to some “ready-to-paint” color books – almost similar to be having your favorite text editor to start new documents with the basic HTML mark-up ready for you, rather than sitting on a blank page.

The reason for responding here is not those verses of mine; although you haven’t deserved any less – very well designed web site with the endeavor many people would appreciate – just like me. But not everybody ..

seeing those comments here on top of the pile I think I should a few words about what you did. And in case you are being accused of not being a guru, let me tell you I am a guru, but the praises goes to effort not the titles. Great web site, good efforts, keep going :)

And the big oaf.. yes I conqur with David Walsh – CSS can be described as a language with its own structural rules and even dialects that you believe or you’re sure you understand * I am unsure about it.

regards and best wishes

Why reset? Set instead. Simply put, replace your reset style sheet with one that SETs all the basic styles to the defaults you would like to start from instead. You still get a good baseline across browsers by setting all your styles to a standard format. I just don’t see the point of doing something to force me to specifically undo it later. I would much rather start with a style sheet that has a reasonable starting point that overrides the differences between browsers while at the same time making elements appear as I would expect them to everywhere.

So how about we see the death of the reset style sheet and the birth of frameworks with set style sheets. I think I will work on creating my own set.css in the near future.