I went to Barnes and Noble today, to see their selection on books on CSS... it's pretty poor, but the local bookstore does have a somewhat smaller selection than most stores of the same name.. I did see one I liked, and was going to buy it, but Amazon had it for $30 (they wanted $50). Title: Core CSS (2nd ed) by Keith Shengili-Roberts. There was another book that looked both amusing and possibly useful, called Death March (Edward Yourdon), but it was similarly much cheaper on Amazon. So, I contributed to B&N's existence by getting some Tea, and then came here, to Coffee Tree (added the books to my Amazon wishlist -- I might buy them eventually).

One thing that a friend suggests is that before I switch to using CSS, I should switch to using XHTML first. So, I plug my site into the W3 Validator, and come to see that it's not even HTML 4.01 compliant... some of the changes look easy, so I pop open the sources, and, GAH! What the hell?!? The formatting is gone. All the tabs have been removed from the file. I am furious. I know *I* didn't do this, at least not intentionally, and I can't think of how it could've happened. I have been tweaking the sources over the last few days, and have some half-finished changes, so I can't simply revert to the last CVS copy... I just don't understand how this happened.. so I'm digging through my code again, hand-reformatting. Grumble grumble.

Yeah, there's non-tech stuff to talk about... but I'll save that for later.