Do you find the title of this article a little bit intriguing? Well, frankly the best way to teach new and old dogs new tricks is by presenting something in a not so usual perspective. If you teach a cadet how to properly manage his gun, for sure what he’ll do first is a total deviation from your instruction. But tell him the way on how he could kill himself or somebody else unintentionally merely by forgetting to check if the gun is loaded or not, chances are, that will stick like glue right there in his precious mind.
Now, so much for that soliloquy….Let’s go down to business.

The Best Tip to Misuse CSS is:

Use all opportunity to make all your page’s messages totally dependent on style sheets. You are a dead meat if you do this. That’s almost a hundred and one percent sure.

The reason behind this is quite simple. CSS or cascading style sheets are specifically designed to influence your page. That is very much different when you use CSS to control your page. Because of this error or should we say misconception, some designers find their pages highly inaccessible or, if the gravity is not that much, some portion are accessible while the remaining parts are not. One very common hack that makes this misconception in full graceful action is the drop shadow hack.
The drop shadow hack is done by utilizing negative margins. This hack involves a lot of reliance on a style sheet which makes the style sheet literally control the page and merely influence it.

I would like to be more concrete about my discussion on this. Therefore, I would resort to some visual aids. Have you encountered SpaceGUN Magazine’s page? Here it is:

But, take a look at it if I remove the style sheet. Look how miserable the page becomes:

SEE what I mean? Imagine you are a designer and you submitted as a work sample similar with this kind of page that is totally CSS dependent. What future do you think awaits you after the prospective client discovers this? Of course, I don’t want that humiliating scene happen to you that is why I’m laying all out here the concept of not allowing CSS control your page but allowing CSS to merely influence it.

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