Emil Stenström over at Friendly Bit has come up with 6 levels of CSS knowledge. In theory, I’d optimistically put myself around level 5 because I had developed a test site for the library that used CSS positioning instead of tables. However, our university Web team has not bought into CSS positioning, so the new library site will still be laid out using tables. To be fair, designing a site as complex as a library site using CSS positioning is quite a challenge. The test site I developed still had a long way to go before I would have been satisfied with it.
These 6 levels are a great way to create awareness of the importance of CSS and to assess your own abilities. Separating style and content will become more and more important in supporting non-computer browsing (e.g. cell phones, pda’s) and in making content more portable.
