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From No CSS Reset by Jonathan Snook:

“The problem I’ve had with these resets is that I then find myself declaring much more than I ever needed to just to get browsers back to rendering things the way I want. As it turns out, I’m perfectly happy with how a number of elements render by default. I like lists to have bullets and strong elements to have bolded text.”

I echo that declaration. I too used to start my stylesheet with the famous

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

The I found that I was putting back the same formatting that was already set by default on most of the elements.

As for building a base CSS stylesheet, I do have one but it mostly only contains the main separations for a site like #header, #content, etc…

Are your Jeep flares loosing their luster? Black looks more like washed-up gray?

There’s a really easy fix for that. It’s called Krylon Fusion paint cans. Seriously!

What you’ll need:

1. 3 cans of Krylon Fusion Black Satin paint cans
2. Very light sand paper

Step 1 - Sand off the residue

Take the light sand paper and rub gently on the flares. This is just to remove the debris and old paint that was there so the new paint will stick better to the plastic. When you’re done sanding, just take soapy water and clean the flares.

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I actually started blogging more seriously back in 2003 or around that time. I had a few Jeep write-ups then which I found out through WP.com stats that I’m still getting referrers from various Jeeps forums so… with that in mind I decided to “revive” some of my old posts (there’s still in the database collecting dust).

Now I need to find all the pictures that were associated with all those write-ups and put them up on flickr so I can reference them again.

A four-part series by Cameron Moll

“Throughout the duration of this series, we’ll be speaking extensively about markup — XHTML, CSS, and a little scripting. Marking up a website is akin to speaking Spanish. There’s more than one way say something, and there’s certainly more than one way to code something.”