Mike Boyink from Train-ee is hosting the first ever classroom led instruction of ExpressionEngine (EE) in Holland, Michigan.  I stumbled across EE about two years ago, after thinking I was going to become a bad #!*$ developer overnight, and reading every book I could on web development.  After comparing content management systems, I chose EE.  What I found two years ago, was there were not many tutorials, or trainings on EE.  Yea there was the documentation and four start up videos, but it seemed like something was missing, I was still was very unsure of how to really develop an ExpressionEngine site. I put EE on the shelf and went in a different direction of building systems from scratch(or attempting anyway).  I still new that EE was the tool to be using, especially for clients websites, although may not be the most popular, I re-visited ExpressionEngine again.  This time while trying to find tutorials, I found Mike Boyink, and his books on ExpressionEngine.  This is exactly what I had been looking for.  After reading and watching the screencasts, I finally have a better understanding of EE, but like always I had some more questions. Continuing to research, I saw Mike Boyink was offering a workshop on ExpressionEngine in September.

“Browser Control” can be one of the toughest and most frustrating aspects of building a website with CSS.  The good news is it doesn’t have to be. Using the right tools and knowing what to avoid, your life can much easier building cross browser compatible websites.

This will be the first of a two part series about “Browser Control” using CSS.  Can every aspect be covered in a two part series? No, but what I will cover in this series are some simple tips and tools that will dramatically reduce your intake of Advil for those brutal headaches that some browsers cause (I won’t name names).

The first part will discuss the universal selector tool.  It is simple to use, takes about 10 seconds to implement in your style sheets and creates an even playing field when it comes to elements in your html document.

Here it is:

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