SuzyUK - 9:55 pm on Sep 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

Tips 'n' Tricks - part 8

5. Avoiding some pitfalls

- some of these are mentioned previously in this series of articles, but they're here for reference -

• avoid using underscores in class and ID names
  
• avoid starting class and ID names with numbers
  
• name classes and ID's by function (e.g. nav) as opposed to their appearance (e.g. redborder), appearances may change!
  
• put non hyphenated, multi word fonts in quotes (e.g. "times new roman")
  
• avoid putting the path to to background image in quotes, especially single ones
  (e.g. background-image: url(path/to/myimage.gif); )
  
• if using an embedded stylesheet for testing, the path to images may need to be altered once in an external stylesheet.
  
• if testing using an external stylesheet, tweaks may not show up as expected if the original stylesheet has been cached.
  
• always use units with your values (e.g. width: 150px; )
  
• hex color values should always be preceded with a # (hash symbol)
  
• be aware when using shorthand properties that they are not implicitly overwriting previous explicit settings.