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- karlo
What is the best way to learn CSS?
Best book?
Tutorials?
Is it true... Is it the future??
- MX_OnD0
sitepoint.com have an excellent book to get you started.
thereafter online resources.
Best way to learn? By doing.
- instantok0
read through these:
css
http://www.w3schools.com/css/def…xhtml
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/d…grab they layouts here and play with them:
http://www.glish.com/css/read this regularly:
http://www.alistapart.com/
- UndoUndo0
i found this quite useful from a design perspective
http://www.csszengarden.com
- paraselene0
i've been using zen garden, a list apart, trial and error, moth's brain and dreamweaver's predictive code. so far, so good.
good luck. you won't regret it.
- MX_OnD0
also ask here, some NTers are very helpful indeed. The rest are a shower o hooooooooors, true but some are very helpful.
- Jack_Purcell0
Read Jeffrey Zeldmans "Designing with Web Standards." Good transition to CSS based design. Explains the why and how.
Stylegala also has a nice CSS reference on their site.
http://www.stylegala.com/feature…
- instantok0
oh...once you get a little more comfortable with it you should read this article and try to implement it's practices:
http://www.contentwithstyle.co.u…
helps me make some sense out of things
- madino0
I really recommend Dan Cedarholm's new book. Great for refresh or starter.
- TheTick0
practice, practice, practice. And I second Dan Cederholm's book - it's a bit above basic, but he explains things really well that make you go "Oh! I get it now!"
- doggy0
I got this book to start off - pretty cheap. Pretty good to learn with - covers all the basics.
DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide,
by Jason Cranford Teague
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…Just rip apart every css site you see, and you will learn how things are put together.!And check out alistapart, and csszengarden.
Other CSS resources:
http://www.weeklystandards.com/
http://stylegala.com/
http://cssvault.com/This one was hott for my learnings on box techniques:
http://www.thenoodleincident.com…CSS is cool.
- mg330
CSS & XHTML is great, all CSS layout is great, it's interesting when you learn that tables were never meant for layout in the first place.
Been working with this stuff since March and have really learned tons in that time, but feel like I've just scratched the surface.
The Zen Garden book helped quite a bit. Just great to see so many different examples and be inspired by it.
I'm busy redesigning and redeveloping our law firm's site, the first site I'm doing with CSS/XHTML. Coming along smoothly - have any idea how good it's going to feel to complete it?Also going to this in November, can't wait:
http://www.carsonworkshops.com/d…
- bulletfactory0
i picked up the o'reilly book Cascading style Sheets the Definitive Guide - not bad, but just diving in will be the most helpful
checking out the aforementioned sites - may be the best way to see practical css design at work
gl!! - There are also some great NTr's to lend the occasionally sarcastic helping hand :)
- jgjh1510
Not the future dude. Look around, its now.