Title: Critique wanted on CSS Tutorial
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Critique wanted on CSS Tutorial

 *  Resolved [JaneLitte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janelitte/)
 * (@janelitte)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critique-wanted-on-css-tutorial/)
 * I hope you’ll excuse the mess on my tech blog. It’s a testing site for my main
   blog so the theme is quite unfinished, but I wrote up a tutorial on the css styleswitcher
   [ tutorial ](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/) by A List Apart. 
   It’s kind of a CSS Styleswitcher for Dummies (of which I am one). I hoped some
   people could critique whether it was useful and whether it is right.
 * [tutorial](http://dearauthor.com/tech/?p=4)

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 *  [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * (@chradil)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critique-wanted-on-css-tutorial/#post-409615)
 * There are many different ways of accomplishing the same result that it looks 
   like you’re aiming at, which is the ability for a user to choose a “personal”
   look and feel for your site. That’s a great feature, especially for a site which
   would discuss css styling.
 * However, personally, I would focus on writing valid standards compliant code (
   which also eliminates most cross browser issues) before trying to get fancy with
   the style switching (there are a number of plugins available which are capable
   of producing standards compliant code as well, which is a nice bonus for that
   type of effect).
 * Here are the w3c validator results for your existing xhtml and css files:
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2F%3Fp%3D4](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2F%3Fp%3D4)
 * [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Ffoliage_mod2%2Fstyle.css&usermedium=all](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Ffoliage_mod2%2Fstyle.css&usermedium=all)
 * [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Ffoliage_mod2%2Fstyle175.css&usermedium=all](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Ffoliage_mod2%2Fstyle175.css&usermedium=all)
 * [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Faf-extended-live-archive%2Fincludes%2Faf-ela-style.css&usermedium=all](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdearauthor.com%2Ftech%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Faf-extended-live-archive%2Fincludes%2Faf-ela-style.css&usermedium=all)
 * for me at least, a good part of the reason for using xhtml/css to begin with 
   is to make my life easier by producing standards compliant, accessible, cross
   browser compliant code, thus eliminating any extra effort required to do such
   things as “tailor” separate style sheets for each browser, then attempt to make
   that system work with javascript which is not likely to work with all of the 
   browsers the “special” css is written for anyway.
 * standards, standards, standards.

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 * Last reply from: [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
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