[thelist] Advice please on CSS XML XHTML etc.

Firstly hello everyone as Iıve recently joined the list.

Iıd like some advice on the state of current browsers technologies etc.

Iıve been learning web design for 2 years now, started off using flash which
took me into learning actionscript, which is very close to ECMA script. From
that I started building basic HTML pages for work ­ learning from my fellow
employees, who are very *dreamweaver* based. So I've picked up many bad
habits along the way - of which I have been correcting. I've also been
learing Javascript since it is ECMA its been quite easy and am using DOM
testing now as well as the obvious NN4 and ie4 tests.

I've been researching CSS and XHTMl etc. its all very interesting and I've
learnt a lot from AListApart Evolt etc.

However it still seems very transitional and most of our clients insist on
Backward compatability (though we do stop at 4 and above).

So to get a general idea I'd like some opinions/advice on what to spend my
current thirst for knowledge on, I'm stuck between:

Following WC3 recommends and building CSS sites, getting messy with XHTML.

Learning ASP and incorporating more CSS into our table layouts.

Any pointers much appreciated.

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