CSS - tutorial or examples

[fdo]

Hi,

I am learning web development and realize I am most fuzzy about cascading style sheets. All I really know about CSS is the acronym and that it helps keep an entire website uniform looking.

Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks

[Early Out]

The gold standard: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp

[felgall]

Why is that the gold standard - it was just written by two guys from Norway and is getting further and further out of date becuase they are not updating the site as often as they used to.

One alternative where you actually can see who wrote the tutorials is http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningcss/p/learncss.htm

The actual standards document can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ if you are looking for an official source.

[Katharsis]

I've found the video tutorials at http://lynda.com to be very helpful but a Google search for CSS video tutorials will reveal a lot of choices.

[mhJr_]

Local libraries usually have a couple books on CSS with actual CD sources for hands-on examples. I'd recommend this.

[fdo]

Thanks, that helps alot. There's so much info out there, it helps to have someone rate it for me. Checking out books from the library is a favorite way of mine. Even when the CD's are missing, you can often get the books source code online.

[felgall]

If you are interested in books then I do have reviews of some HTML and CSS books scattered in amongst all the book reviews at http://www.felgall.com/review.htm

[rph]

Why is that the gold standard - it was just written by two guys from Norway and is getting further and further out of date becuase they are not updating the site as often as they used to.
Well, to be fair the CSS 2 has remained pretty much unchanged for a decade. Some neat hacks have been discovered but the standard remains stagnant.

CSS is on of those things that sounds great in theory but leaves a heck of a lot to be desired in practice; it's excellent for style but just horrible for layout.

[felgall]

Some neat hacks have been discovered but the standard remains stagnant.

So if you want the standards then you go to the official standards site http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/

If you want tutorials on how to use it then those written recently that take modern browser support for the standards into account are more useful than one that is way out of date or which doesn't take the latest browsers into account.

A lot of people seem to think there is something special about w3schools just because the owner got lucky in the domain name they selected. http://www.quirksmode.org is a far more useful site regarding CSS than w3schools is plus it is far more regularly maintained by its owner.

[wysiwyg]

Trying to learn CSS from w3.org is like reading a DTD to learn HTML.

Quirksmode was created to test compatibility of browsers with the standards, and has nothing to do with teaching anyone CSS.

Neither one of these sites are for beginners looking to learn what CSS is and how to use it.

[felgall]

Neither one of these sites are for beginners looking to learn what CSS is and how to use it.

No but the site I linked to in post 3 is - and is a much better resource for the purpose than the w3schools one.