Cascading Style Sheets

Real-life Examples of Style Sheets

Webreference.com Guide to Cascading Style Sheets. Employs a linked style sheet, inline styles, absolute positioning, drop caps, fonts, color, indents. It looks a little odd without style sheets, but it's still readable.
Index DOT css. An excellent reference site for cascading style sheets. Uses CSS for consistent fonts, colors, etc. Degrades gracefully to browsers that support tables but not CSS.
Positive Propaganda. This weekly web magazine uses style sheets and dynamic fonts to put the emphasis on content. Style sheets make it easy to create a consistent look for the site. The author indicates that 60%-70% of his audience uses version 4 browsers. He also uses XML to write reviews of web sites, and hopes to eventually use it to keep track of broken links.
The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability. Another example of using style sheets to maintain consistency in a newsletter. Style sheets give the newsletter a distinctive look without interfering with the content. Looks great without style sheets as well.
Web Page Repair: Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland, an essay by Stephen Traub. Without CSS, it's kind of bland, but readable. Add CSS, and it gains pizzazz, but becomes less readable because of the column format (it becomes necessary to scroll both up and down to read the text).