Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial

[Squintz]

I just started comming bacl to the site and on thing that iv noticed is the talk of not using tables as the main layout of the page. I was wondering if anyon knew of a good CSS & HTML tutorial for someone who is having a very difficult time designing a web site.

When i say i am having a difficult time i mean that one i have never used CSS's and have always used tables. So i need to be able to break that habit.

I am designing a site to be ran on my local server which will be able to be accessed by outside computers but only I will be using it. It is a site for my home automation system and will be to monitor my cameras and control my lights.

[ronaldb66]

Squintz,

it's hard to write a description on how to create a layout using CSS positioning; although it is widely accepted that using tables for layout purposes should in most cases be avoided because of many drawbacks, CSS positioning doesn't offer one solution for every layout problem.
In fact, there are a number of possible techniques, none of which are perfect at that, and new and revised techniques are created all the time to overcome exisiting drawbacks and circumvent browser incompatabilities while creating others.

Which solution is best for a given layout depends on the layout itself and the weight that is given to the strong aspects and drawbacks every single solution inevitably has.

If this all sounds very daunting and the last bit of hope just left you, I warmly recommend reading "Reinventing the wheel (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0304e.shtml)" on Jeffrey Zeldman's "The Daily Report (http://www.zeldman.com/)".
Also check out the "HTML & CSS Documentation (http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20862)" sticky in the HTML & CSS forum for more online resources.

[DesignersToolz]

This should be about right.


http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp


GL:thumbsup:

[ronaldb66]

If you are so inclined, I'd like to recommend a pleasantly written offline tutorial: "HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css1/)" from Sitepoint; although hardly the last word on CSS, it offers a fairly comprehensive introduction into CSS, including many references to online sources and a handy CSS2 reference.

I have no connection to Sitepoint whatsoever, but their stuff is good and they deliver so cheetah-fast they've set a benchmark for Internet businesses, as far as I'm concerned.

[pb&j]

there are alot of css tutorials listed in the sticky thread of the html forums...
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20862