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CSS From the Ground Up

Posted by michael on from the for-dummies dept.

jsin writes "Web Page Design for Designers is a great source for anyone who is looking for a non-programmer-centric view on web page design and development. Starting in his most recent issue, Joe Gillespie describes CSS from an absolute beginners perspective. Even though I've been building commercial sites for years, the article is an excellent way to review the basics in the context of endless changes in standards and practices."

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  1. I've found by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That CSS is wonderful when you want to use your own custom one to override page design.

    The one I use blocks out most ads, and red strikes any link that contains goatse.

    But I've noticed that Mozilla and FireFox don't let you set a custom CSS, which I find disappointing.

  2. I'm not impressed by El · · Score: 3, Interesting

    His bar graphs don't display properly in Mozilla -- what browser do his pages actually display properly in? He appears fairly IE-centric.

    --

    "Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney

  3. And once you are done with that.... by Anonytroll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At http://www.alistapart.com/ you can find more detailed, praxis-oriented tutorials/examples using CSS and XHTML if you like this way of doing sites. It's especially interesting, because they have quite a lot of things about pure CSS layouts without tables.

  4. Beware of web designers... by InsaneCreator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Designers and web don't always mix well. I once got called "a vandal" by a web designer who has just heard about possibility of using your own stylesheets in Mozilla. Apparently, doing so would be defacing his artistic work and he wanted such features banned.

    Explaining how that feature worked didn't help a bit. For some reason he was sure random visitors would be setting their styles to green text on purple background with large blinking headlines & then post screenshots all over the net - just to mock his "masterpieces".

    Well, at least I learned one thing from that event: don't argue with retards over the internet. :)