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I’ve written a fair old bit about CSS, and continue to do so. The time honoured method of starting a CSS article or book for beginners, is to start out with a comparison between font tags and CSS for simple text styling. I have a bunch of CSS books on my shelves, including my own, and all start out from this point.

My question then is whether this is still a valid and useful starting point. Are there still people using the HTML font element to style text, and who need this comparison? Or is it just going to serve to confuse beginners who have never encountered a font tag in their lives and just want to know how to style text?

Let me know your thoughts or experiences by adding a comment to this post. I’d be really interested to know.

I’m probably just creating myself one more thing to feel guilty about not doing, but in the interest of improving my photography and being more creative I’m decided to join in with the Project 365 idea. I’ve had my Canon 350D since March this year and I feel I’m only just getting to a point where I’m doing anything other than randomly waving it at things and pressing the button, and I tend to only take photos when I ‘go somewhere to take photos’. Yet a lot of the photography that I really like isn’t of the obvious stuff, so I’m hoping that this might be a way to start looking for pictures in everyday life rather than just when I visit scenic places or am somewhere surrounded by geeks with cameras.

I’m writing this post from a wifi enabled train, heading up the East Coast main line to Newcastle. Getting on the train at Kings Cross reminded me of how I arrived in that station, just over 11 years ago. Hauling all my wordly possessions with me in a move to London which was, in retrospect, completely insane. Kings Cross hasn’t changed that much, and the Small Person opined that Paddington is far nicer as she narrowly missed being clobbered over the head by a briefcase for the third time in as many minutes.

We survived Kings Cross and managed to get on the train, the trains are much nicer than the old Inter City 125s, a mode of transport that featured strongly in my car-free childhood. My parents thought nothing of waking myself and my two little sisters up at 5am to take us on a day trip from Newcastle to London, we loved these trips and the train was part of the fun. My only recollection of one of these trips was having breakfast in the restaurant car, no idea where we were going or why but hey, we got to eat breakfast on a train, so who cared?

I still like trains, we should travel this way more often. As a child I always wanted to go on a sleeper train, I didn’t think such things would exist anymore, but they do! A few days in Aberdeen might be nice …