Is Lynda.com good?
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I have had more success with books. (sitepoint and O'Reilly)
Although I have to say the Lynda site has a lot of stuff on it and I have worked through a lot of actionscript and php tutorials it still leaves me with a lot of questions. When I work through the books it takes a little longer and isn't video guided...which is a good thing. With videos I seem to just copy what happens and not learn what is going on. By working through books you learn more concepts and see what your doing not what someone else in a video is doing.
For CSS you can find ALOT of good stuff out there for free. If you want to get into heavier development languages I would say books. If you just want to learn some new stuff on the side then go with lynda (they have a lot of after affects stuff that you wont find on websites and stuff like that) then I would recommend it.
I'm not saying don't try lynda because it really does have awesome stuff on it but if you just want css go with a book that specifically deals with it and look for good free sites (csstricks.com is a great one) books will help a lot more since they are more focused and in my opinion easier to work through. Sitepoint has a great forum for people who purchase their books that is constantly monitored by authors and professionals. They also have amazing deals all the time. I bought 5 books for $30 or something like that and got 2 free jquery videos the sale was to help firefighters during one of the California Forrest fighters about a year ago
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*checks out sitepoint site*Projectile - there's some sitepoint videos on lynda, too. CSSscenek
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