whats a good site to learn CSS?

Discussion in 'CSS' started by adrian88, Jul 4, 2007.

  1. #1
    hello.

    i have a quick question.

    whats a good place to learn CSS?

    thanks!
     
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  2. anions

    anions Notable Member

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    I haven't learnt CSS from a website(I wouldnt recommend you to either), but I did a quick google search and here are some links that I liked:

    http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp - pretty good if you want to start off.

    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning - again good.

    IMHO a book is the best way to get started. Grab one of those 24 hours( or "for Dummies") books. You wont learn it in 24 hours flat(you never stop learning with programming languages), but it's good to get going.

    Best Wishes and hope you enjoy it,

    AnIons :)
     
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    bnandika Well-Known Member

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  4. Noddegamra

    Noddegamra Peon

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    I always find books to be crappy. Doesn't suit my way of learning at all as they tend to go over the top on wording in order to bulk out the book to make it look filled and worth buying.

    I prefer to learn from examples, tutorials, and experimentation. Online there isnt a need to be over wordy.

    Anyway. Heres a great online resource..

    http://www.tizag.com/cssT/

    :)
     
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    iatbm Prominent Member

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    I second tizag that Noddegamra recommended but the best way to learn css is actually to look at the code. Get some free templates from oswd.org and learn by reading code....soon everything will be clear ;)
     
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    chaoz Active Member

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    soulscratch Well-Known Member

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    CSS Mastery
    Beginning CSS Web Development
    Pro HTML/CSS Design patterns
    Pro CSS Techniques
    Web Standards Solutions
    Bulletproof Web Design
    CSS Instant Results

    are all better than Tizag.
     
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    nwk Well-Known Member

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    I do agree with iatbm that the best way is to look at the codes and keep on trying..
    Well, there are some sites which will supplement you in this and they are already given above..Let me remind of them again..
    http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning and
    definitely http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=39 :)
    DP's CSS forum is also a great place for learning CSS. You will always find answers to your doubts in DP.. So, visit DP regularly...:)
    NWK
     
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    dudes. you are talking to a complete noob. and css is not that easy. it takes few months full of frustrations to learn css (at least). And thts mainly because buggy implementation of css on the biggest and most utilized browser on the market: IE. Beside that, there are problems on other browsers too. FX fas some issues with differend elements, Opera had (and still has some) issues regarding absolute/relative positioning, stuff like that.

    W3schools is a good site to start, but definetly it's not a good site for the advanced user. The bible of CSS should become after few months w3c specs. Know them, and you instantly get rid of lots and lots of nasty things. (for example the infamous float not extending parent height: fixed with the clearfix method or some other method).

    As for answers, first you gotta understand the very basic thing of CSS: the box model and how the document flows. If you don't understand that, you are lost. You will remain a poor css coder, applying only text formatting from css, but not using it at it's real power.

    All good, hopefully soon we'll hear about your great works (no joning here). And welcome to the club.
     
    x-noise, Jul 6, 2007 IP