> I used to do some HTML and CSS 25 years ago and it was a nightmare to make it look like I wanted.
Did you ever stop to think if the point perhaps wasn't to make it look like you wanted, but like the user wanted?
I think that's a major part of the problem with the Web in general: A severe case of designitis. The web was never supposed to be a glossy magazine. The server was supposed to serve up content, (mainly text), and then the browser was supposed to render that content according to the user's settings — by all means, let the artsy-fartsy types use some fancy designer font; but above all, let those of us who are getting on in age use a slightly bigger one, so we can frigging see what it says in the first place. Compared to that, I don't give a shit if it messes up the precious "flow" or layout.
Did you ever stop to think if the point perhaps wasn't to make it look like you wanted, but like the user wanted?
I think that's a major part of the problem with the Web in general: A severe case of designitis. The web was never supposed to be a glossy magazine. The server was supposed to serve up content, (mainly text), and then the browser was supposed to render that content according to the user's settings — by all means, let the artsy-fartsy types use some fancy designer font; but above all, let those of us who are getting on in age use a slightly bigger one, so we can frigging see what it says in the first place. Compared to that, I don't give a shit if it messes up the precious "flow" or layout.
Designitis -- it's the curse of our times.
(Well, that, and advertising.)