CSS Presentation Topic?

[natethegreat!]

I am currently working at a small web development company as a student intern. The company's main focus is its content management system, which is its main offering. They do, however, do a lot of custom designing / their own templates, but until this summer, it was mostly all done with tables and little (if any) CSS. This summer, however, as I began to work there (though in no way only because of me), basically all of its design is being done with CSS, and the other employees have taken interest. Somehow through all of this, people have started viewing me as a CSS guru.

To be honest, I don't really mind this, and am happy to help in any way I can. But I'm now in somewhat of a predicament. I'm scheduled to do a presentation (roughly thirty minutes) in two weeks, and I'm getting the distinct feeling that I'm expected to just magically open up the wonders of CSS and make it all nice and fluffy and IE-bug-free. I obviously can't do this, for several reasons, ranging from "I'm no presenter", to "CSS is way too large of a subject to sum up in half an hour," to the fact that IE will just be IE no matter how clever I am and it will probably cause me problems for the rest of my career in web development.

Thankfully, I'm not locked down to any particular title or subject. So, yeah. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks!

~NTG

[theGlitch]

I would definitely touch upon centering (using %, px, pica, etc) and general spacing techniques. As well as using divs to help the flow of content. Go over the different symbols (#, ., etc.).

Go over the basics of color, font, padding, margins, border play, and z-indexing. That should be in depth enough to wow your colleagues but general enough that you wont kill yourself preparing the presentation. Using PowerPoint to show both code snippets and how they then appear will dazzle people who are new to the subject.

Also, keep in mind, the way things look in IE is different than Netscape, Mozilla, and Safari.

Best of luck in the presentation!

[natethegreat!]

Thanks so much for the hints!