teaching webdesign – I found it quite tricky to find what would be a suitable starting point, mainly though when I have people in my class who have already dabbled in webdesign using DW, for example. In this case it’s a matter of dropping bad habits and adopting the new clean working method with CSS. It can be very confusing for people entirely new if I talk about things like the font tags etc – it becomes almost too much information to handle…
When I have only newcomers to webdesign in my class – this becomes an easier topic to approach and I start with the bascis of coding and discuss the box model as soon as my students understand the basic syntax. This then becomes a more digestable content to understand 😉