RE: FN-FORUM: CSS tutorials

date posted 12th March 2008 12:22

Hello, CSS is wonderful, it's amazing and it's powerful and it gets rid of
lines and lines of horrible tables for none tablular data, increasing the
ease of accessibility for all users... the down side is that internet
explorer exists just to rob you of hours and hours of work. Unless the site
is quite basic you'll always getting it looking lovely in one browser only
to find that another one doesn't like, I test in firefox, as happy middle
ground between safari and IE but there's always changes to be made at both
ends, if the developers all made the programs work the same perhaps the
world would be a better place, like support for pngs in IE6 :'( it could be
so simple. But they don't so coders have to write more code to fix it, I've
found that most of the time you don't have to make a specific style sheet
for IE or anything that crazy and I hardly ever need to use hacks in CSS you
just have to work at it until you get it looking nice cross browers without
too many discrepancies. I think the most useful thing I read said "don't
expect to design pixel perfect sites" instead use em over px obviously
there's exceptions but I've followed loads of designers designs and always
manage to make it look almost identical without using px. Trial and error
is the quickest way to learn CSS get firebug and webdev for firefox and your
life will be a lot easier.


Dynamicdrive.com has some lovely tutorials in their CSS section

http://www.csszengarden.com/
has got some good stuff too


David Clough
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Brian
Lycett
Sent: 12 March 2008 1:11 PM
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: FN-FORUM: CSS tutorials


Hi all.

I've just started this freelancing lark after working as a Linux
integration engineer for the last few year.
I was hoping to get work in that area and in web application development,
though it seems that it's harder than I imagined, especially since a lot
of the freelancer websites are saturated with our Asian cousins who can
afford to make very low bids. :(

Anyway, since I have a bit of spare time and as my skills lie in
development rather than design, I thought I might try to learn a bit of
this 'CSS' nonsense that everyone's banging on about these days. I've
found a few tutorials but nothing especially useful or inspiring.
Has anyone got an online tutorial that they'd recommend as the best guide
to CSS they've ever read?
Also, do you all feel that CSS is now stable enough to render pretty much
the same in all browsers? The thing that put me off before is the fact
that you'd have to code separately for different browsers and versions,
and I'm really against inefficient coding like that.

Thanks in advance!

Brian


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