You can choose class names when authoring your CSS and XHTML. A good rule is to create "logical" class names and not "descriptive" ones. Remember, you've gone to the trouble of separating markup and presentation -- keep this separation when creating class names.
If you can guess how the class is styled based upon the name, this should cause you to consider changing the name.
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Choosing class and id names appropriately will help with:
#rightnav may very well become navigation positioned on the
left side or the top.
.redbold may very be changed to another color or background
entirely..dottedborder class, you may wish to change how your
thumbnail images are styled, but leave presentation of other markup that you've given
the same class to unchanged.