Comments on: CSS Resources for Web Design

By: Tara: Freelance Designer

Tara: Freelance Designer — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:39:36 +0000

Hi MC

Thanks for reading, its flattering to think one of your teachers pointed you here.

By: MC

MC — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:35:56 +0000

Hi Tara! I’m now starting to learn more about design on my own and I just can’t leave your blog! I’ve been opening tabs for days!
I think you’d like to know I got to your site as a recommendation of one of my Lab Web teachers.
I would also like to add (I don’t know if it has already been said, as I haven’t been able to read everything!) that you don’t have to worry about the code. Even programmers rely on programs to do some of the code for them. Nowadays, programs have commands to almost anything you once only did through code.
Well, at least that’s what I heard.
I’ll keep on visiting, keep on posting =p

By: grafic7

grafic7 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:11:25 +0000

Hi tara. I've been reading your posts through subscriptions since i started blogging. That's exactly in july! A late entrant! And at the same time I dived into the world of web design. Like you I've been searching for good resources on web design, particularly CSS. Since then I had visited many sites and I too have a collection of good resourceful sites. Check them out on my second blog grafic7template.blogspot.com. Some of them are suggested by Loopy, Rachael and Sam here. Hope you'll find them useful.

By: Graham :: Map Maker

Graham :: Map Maker — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:31:52 +0000

Tara

CSS is a steep but worthwhile learning curve, I highly recommend you using it. Once you have mastered it there is no going back to tables based layouts.

Some useful info can be found here:
http://wellstyled.com/archive.html

By: Tara: Freelance Designer

Tara: Freelance Designer — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:34:05 +0000

Hi everyone thanks for the suggestions.

Sam – your story is definitely encouraging

By: Rob Mason

Rob Mason — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:43:44 +0000

Couple of extra ones for you to try: Glish: CSS Layout techniques or The Noodle Incident: Little Boxes or CSS Play.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:08:32 +0000

I was in a similar position to you guys last year when asked to redesign the site for the company I work for. I had no experience at all doing this but jumped in the deep end and at the time stole myself a victory. A year later and a bundle of sites later I’m back at redesigning my companies site at this year its how far can I swim not am I going to sink.

I would recommend getting a style sheet and a html file and changing some of the code in the css to see the impact it has when you look at the html in a browser. This way you can build up confidence and eventually start coding it from scratch once you understand the syntax.

Try looking at Eric Myers site and CSS Play as they are both very good sites in terms for learning. Also try including some Javascript functions such as drop down menus or even fade in and out effects you get in flash the possibilities with code are endless.

Hope this helped and good luck!

By: Loopy

Loopy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:47:12 +0000

Ooo!! Another great css website is CSS Zen Garden. "A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design" The site lists different ways to show the same code... the only thing that has changed is the external .css file! Some are really beautiful!

By: Rachael

Rachael — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:08:10 +0000

Don’t forget w3schools.com. Even though it’s not owned / run by the w3c, it’s an awesome place to learn. Their examples aren’t the best though, unfortunately.

By: Tara: Freelance Designer

Tara: Freelance Designer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:48:14 +0000

Hi Rachel – we’ll have to swap good sites if we find any. I thought the HTML an CSS courses at http://www.online-learning.com were pretty good to get started on the basics.