CSS introduction via books

  • jarret

    (@jarret)


    20 years, 8 months ago

    I am completely new to WP, CSS, XHTML etc. and am wondering whether anyone can recommend any good books that might help to get me started. I’m not looking for something that would teach me to build entire sites from scratch, rather something that would teach me enough to modify a WP site. I almost went and bought “Eric Myer on CSS’ but figured I’d check here first. Any suggestions would be welcome.

    cheerio

    Jarret

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  • jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Hey, good thing you asked. 🙂

    First off, the newer the book the better. Anything older than 2003 copright should be avoided.

    Either of Dan Cederholm’s books are a great start, have a look at http://simplebits.com/
    The peachpit XHTML/CSS book is pretty decent, but I would avoid it in favor of newer books.

    Every new web designer should be into standards, and you really can’t go wrong with Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. That book changed my life 🙂

    tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    I go for a Complete Idiot’s or Dummy’s guide every time if I’m just starting something. But there are also lots of good online resources. Have you checked out:
    w3schools.com/css

    Explains every CSS property with examples.

    jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    I’d be wary of books like that, a lot of them teach <table>s for layout and non-standards.

    But the w3schools site is very good once you get used to it. Also, a much cleaner and user-friendly site is http://htmldog.com … very up-to-date on standards and well written.

    Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    I’d also say the page at the codex CSS has tons of reference for CSS.

    syrupcore

    (@syrupcore)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    w3schools is great. the live preview stuff is a flash of brilliance.

    check out http://westciv.com/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/index.html too. good stuff.

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