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2009-09-07, 6:44 AM #1
The last few sites I designed and coded were html with a tiny smattering of PHP and I want/need to start down the road to learning CSS, and I didn't find W3C's tutorials terribly helpful. They seemed to assume you already knew some.

Does anyone know of a GOOD site that explains the basics pretty thoroughly and will take me through the more complicated stuff? You know, a CSS-For-Dummies type of tutorial site?
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2009-09-07, 7:01 AM #2
http://www.designmeme.com/articles/ is one of the CSS bookmarks I have, there's a beginner guide on there as well as some more advanced stuff.
http://ronsguide.com/ is another one with some CSS as well as other topics.

The best way to learn (at least for me) is to have access to an existing site and take it apart and see how it works.
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2009-09-07, 9:32 AM #3
there are w3c tutorials?

I learned CSS fastest by taking apart other people's sites, and reading blog entries for specific techniques as I needed them. There is no point trying to learn everything before you use it.
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2009-09-07, 9:48 AM #4
What Detty said. And CSS is actually easier than HTML, except in the edge cases where IE refuses to behave.
2009-09-07, 2:08 PM #5
I thought this was going to be about the band. -_-
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2009-09-07, 2:22 PM #6
Originally posted by Detty:

I learned CSS fastest by taking apart other people's sites, and reading blog entries for specific techniques as I needed them. There is no point trying to learn everything before you use it.


This
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2009-09-07, 2:46 PM #7
I've found the best way to learn php, html and css is to look at other peoples work and play with it.

http://layouts.ironmyers.com/
has tons of templates you can download and check out the .css file

I prefer http://www.code-sucks.com/css%20layouts/

they have tons of layouts already designed and all you need to do is check out the html page and the css, see how it fits together.

after I learned how to make a basic site layout I went to http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp and check out some of their tips to modify things and tweak the design.

using those websites above I made http://dp.outlaw-inc.com for my WoW guild.
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2009-09-07, 2:50 PM #8
Originally posted by Baconfish:
I thought this was going to be about the game. -_-


Fixed for me.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2009-09-07, 4:24 PM #9
It has been a few years since I've done any CSS, but I used to enjoy looking at the CSS solutions on the CSS Zen Garden website. I don't know how relevant this information is by today's standards, but it was a very good resource when I used it.
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2009-09-07, 6:49 PM #10
I actually found w3c plus a few example pages and design blogs is just enough.
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2009-09-07, 7:00 PM #11
Back when I was at RIT, we were required to purchase the O'Reilly CSS Pocket Reference for one of my courses. It's a nice, small reference book to have available to flip through while coding a website, makes it so that you don't have to switch windows back and forth. It definitely came in handy on the last couple of websites I coded by hand.
2009-09-08, 12:20 AM #12
Where are these w3c tutorials?
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2009-09-08, 12:27 AM #13
Originally posted by Detty:
Where are these w3c tutorials?


http://www.w3schools.com/css/
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2009-09-08, 1:22 AM #14
w3schools are not affiliated with w3c, there is no guarantee the information they provide is correct (it often isn't).
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2009-09-08, 1:24 AM #15
Originally posted by TheCarpKing:


you walked right into it
2009-09-09, 4:18 PM #16
Ok, I'll bookmark this thread. I needed CSS on the last site I did, but I didn't have time to learn what I needed. That's why I wanted to get the jump on it now before I'm under a time constraint.

Thanks all!
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