I can’t stand articles that make you read two pages before getting to the point. With that in mind, let’s look at how I think css code should be organized.

In a nutshell: css code should be divided up into at least 4 separate pages:

1. page-structure.css
2. text-styles.css
3. misc.css
4. ie-styles.css

How about we call this the ‘killer’ css structure.

Before I go into the details of what each css file contains (if it’s not already obvious), I want to quickly cover WHY you might want to use this basic css structure for all your websites.

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Hi,

I’ve been a busy little bee lately.

This past week, I finally got around to re-skinning killersites.com. Yes, after about 5 years of using the same basic layout, I finally decided that an update was needed.

I think when someone said:

“… killersites.com kinda looks … 2000 ish.”

… I was pushed over the edge and began the design work. You can see the new layout on the home page now:

www.killersites.com

Later on, I will be rolling this out throughout the rest of the web site and on other sites as well:

- killerphp.com
- how-to-build-websites.com

etc …

To build this new look, I spent about 50 hrs and about 15 public revisions. As I went along, I released early drafts of the new look for people to comment on in the forums. You can read the thread and see the progress of the redesign here:

killersites redesign discussion

Now that I’ve got this in place, I can go back to creating new videos.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com

I’ve been running the killersites.com newsletter (among a few others) for several years now. Though I’ve found it to effective, with regards to keeping in touch with people, it is clearly not what it used to be.

Stupid Spammers

Yea, the porn and pill spammers have really done a lot of harm to newsletters. These days, if you send out a newsletter, you will have to deal with a few things that just get in the way:

1. Email filters – gone wild.
2. Angry (crazy) recipients.

These days, email filters are really fined tuned to catch just about any type of spam. Unfortunately, they tend to trash real email from time to time. So when writing my newsletter, I have to be careful to avoid certain keywords that might get my newsletter blocked.

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