A note on customization

If you're going to build a social networking site that encourages (or evolves) a common practice of customizing the page's colors and style, then please, for the love of god, use things like classes and ID tags to make the components of the page accessible to CSS.

I'd previously assumed that MySpace pages looked horrible because nobody on them had any colour sense, but after spending a half hour trying to customize my own by hand, I'm beginning to realise that it's nigh-on impossible to make anything that actually looks good because it's impossible to address anything. I'm resorting to rules like BODY TABLE TR TD TABLE TR TD TABLE TR TD { } and crossing my fingers that there are no other parts of the page hierarchy that match that.