When Eric Meyer first came out with his reset style sheet I jumped on it and put it in all the sites I was creating then. It caused some problems, it fixed others and it added about 800 bytes to the CSS. I was using it as a “silver bullet” to fix my layout problems. And I was wrong. I mis-read Eric’s post many times. What he was saying was that his reset CSS was a starting point for us to make our own or to customize his.

It makes me wonder: If I got that wrong, how many others did too? A colleague and friend of mine, Jon Zuck said that he didn’t like Eric’s method because it was like taking a shotgun to the styles. I’ve also had other conversations with people ranging to loving what Eric has done and to hating it.

After much thought I’ve created my own starting point. It covers most of the common elements I use in nearly every site I build. It is what I use as a base for a new site I create, though I end up changing it more often then not. I’ve uploaded a CSS and a XHTML file as examples of what I’ve done.