Exactly....if one followed the OP's advice, I suppose maybe eventually I could get skilled in design and layout, but as far as I can tell, that is an entire profession in itself, I have enough trouble trying to stay current just on the pure programming stuff. The hours I've spent trying to get something to lay out properly across browsers using CSS could surely have been spent better elsewhere.
I don't personally know many people who understand all of the intricacies of CSS and browser support and writing HTML along with it that aren't programmers.
To me, the design and the implementation are two very different things, and advanced CSS seems to be more in the programming realm (despite its goals to be accessible to the average designer).
