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[k_nitin_r]

Johnny, on Apr 6 2007, 11:38 PM, said:

So...I'm bored at work, and I figure I should do something [other than work] to occupy my time. And I think now would be the best time for me to learn CSS...I've got plenty of time and I don't have any computer/video games or tv to distract me.

So I was just wondering, for any CSS designers out there, where/how did you learn it? Links to online material are appreciated.

EDIT: Oh wow, Tim's right...one more post to 3000. I should make it a sig topic or something...

EDIT 2: AW MAN, I left and forgot...my 3000th post ended up in Mike's topic.

Hi!

I picked up a couple of basic CSS attributes from looking at other people's CSS and trying it out myself. I also looked up a reference for CSS attributes on the Microsoft and Mozilla websites. I also found Macromedia DreamWeaver's (now called Adobe DreamWeaver) auto-complete to be very helpful.

I picked up advanced CSS techniques by reading a couple of web design magazines that I came across in the lobby of a couple of offices I visited. I wish I had noted the names of the magazines though, as I can't remember any more.

Regards,
Nitin R.

[Томму]

I learned CSS at W3schools.com. The tutorial was quite easy and quick. It took such a low amount of time that I couldn't believe that I've learned CSS so quick. Even though I didn't have every statement put in deeply in my brain, I did understand how things worked out with CSS, and with a little bit of practice on bloggers, and making simple web sites made me learn CSS entirely. Still, I lack of interest of working in CSS. It is boring and mostly useless. It requires a lot of combined work with HTML or PHP, and you still can't get a complete site that will satisfy you're wants.

[webishqiptar]

Well I am a real fan of CSS. It was the first "language" that put me in professionally. But I started learning it from www.w3schools.com and moved from there to real stuff. The first thing I did was some kinf of work by converting Psd documents to xhtml/css compliant w3c valid ones. Well, I checked some really good tricks about css on "alist a part"( I guess you will have to google it because I don't remember the real website adress, and I'm lazy now to check my bookmarks), and I also worked some times at digitalpoint forums converting psd to xhtml.

Css is good because it makes your page professional without being a script, or just combining it with a open source csm can help you a lot.

[wayne]

Had to learn CSS to teach it...

w3c is definitely a useful resource. Over time, of course, there has been many tutorials and reference books introduced to make it easy to learn. Also, using Dreamweaver allows one to see how it is structured as a page is visually constructed and designed.

CSS has had a rapid development and increase in popularity - due to its abilty to load once and remain for the duration that a site is accessed/visited... proving to improve load times and provide consistency...

Its inclusion in the layout of many server-side applications such as forums and cms has definitey improved the efficiency of page loads and the ability to control page layouts.

[Quatrux]

As I started with HTML in those times, when everyone were using font tags and center tags, b and were putting background images in tables and css wasn't so much popular at those days, so not much tutorials, but eventually everything changed very quickly, I myself started using css, even though not all browsers supported it, especially on browsers from operating systems like Amiga.

The same way, I learned css by reading a book and viewing other sites sources, later started to read tutorials and references, this is the way I moved to styling pages with css and not html, when most browsers started to show it quite normally and I got a better computer

The major thing which helped me to remember css better is real time css editing in a browser, you change a value and see the difference instantly

What I never liked about CSS, is that I always needed to do something differently for IE6 but of course it's not CSS trouble. ;D

[web_designer]

first i began with HTML and JAVA SCRIPTS but then i stooped to see a lot of problems to deal with
tables width, jumping images, shadows...ect
there for i decided to open the source code of others and see what is happening
this is the first time i saw CSS
and i found it great...
it fixed a lot of problems
and reach my imagination of making layouts
from that time till now i use it as a backup to my pages
i use mostly external CSS file
no matter what is my pages
PHP, ASP, WORDPRESS
but as some members said
i hate browsers or to be more specific ie browser who can't read my CSS right
and makes me spend hours to fix bugs

[Xalor]

Well I took a Web design class to learn all of this, but over the summer I decided to look into some more CSS than what I knew, before I only knew tables plus the old HTML 4.1 way. I restructured my methodology to skip tables and the font, or center tags and started skimming it down to XHTML, I did learn XHTML first but then CSS was quite difficult to understand in the beginning, if you really didn't get what it did, w3c schools is great for learning values and properties but its not very good at explaining in depth. I did learn the basics of CSS and basically I know what I need to know for XHTML, and now I forgot tables. CSS wise, the web design class I'm taking now does help to enforce everything, since I have project after project, but coding for a single resolution is difficult since later on you need to get used to different resolutions and sizes, especially with netbooks and phones, so I'm struggling with that concept. I have a hard time visualizing so CSS was a gift/boon to me compared to tables, which I believe are annoying to visualize.

[Nameless_]

I love CSS. Not sure if I've replied to this thread before, but CSS is so easy to learn, so easy to understand, the the format is easy to use, and it is so easy to integrate and very very functional and easy to use. I actually learned it from w3 schools.com, and I recommend it for all the new beginners because it is very simple to understand on the website.

I don't know if it is just me, but it seems like the books make things much much more complicated. In fact, I learned all of my scripting from w3schools, and while I may not be good at it and understand everything, I know basic scripting. But I don't really know how they work though. So I can only edit small snippets, like change the colour and things.

[getube]

I am interested in CSS, I have not studied it but i have used it in my tiny site. CSS add
flexibility in design. You can avoid use of tables, that is a good advantage of using CSS.
Understand that w3school is a good site for beginners as well as professionals for refference CSS. I will be studying it in this Holydays.