Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century.

CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just going to provide a few links and try to summarize what students probably ought to know.
Students should have a basic understanding of how HTML and CSS work, and how they work together. When some journalists challenge me on this, I point out that in my undergraduate print journalism program back in the Dark Ages (before the Web), every single student was required to pass an editing course in which we learned to draw page layouts, spec headlines, crop photos, and use design tools such as a pica stick and a proportion wheel.

Presentation has ALWAYS been an important part of journalism — and today’s presentation uses HTML and CSS.