Sarah, CSS can make your file as webmaster much easier. Can you imagine not having to search and replace thousands of <font> tags across hundreds of documents? Can you imagine changing the look of you pages just by changing a linked style sheet? In an instant? Can you imagine using H1 for a top-level heading instead of H3 because H3 "looks good on X browser?" Remember <h1> means "most important level" not "big type."

Let me point out that CSS does not have to be the winner in web-style languages. Nor does HTML. Someday browsers may parse SGML directly and maybe DSSL will rule. We would be at another level. But the change then would be worth it---if it truly gives the author more power. The point is CSS is most suitable to web-as-it-is as is HTML. We need a standard, not a bunch of duplicate style languages that do the same thing. I don't need to multiply my dozen style sheets by the number of browsers available.

I understand you concern as a commercial producer for having web pages that degrade gracefully and look good on older non-css browsers. This is a tricky thing right now if you use fancy HTML manipulations and <font> tags. I think my pages look good enough in NS and great in IE. But I'm a non-commercial site.

I would start implementing some simple style addition now to your pages here and there, maybe as in-lines. That way people will see a difference. Then NS may follow.

Steve