This is a little bit of information on why we should even consider using CSS. At times wrtiting the CSS was very frustrating. If the CSS Zen Garden wasn't proof enough why we should use the "tool", this article will give you more insight to the benefits of CSS>
This is certainly one of the most important tools for designing a webpage. In "CSS How To...", for the W3 Schools website, this article shows you how to insert a CSS. Without a Cascading Style Sheet, your page will look like it came right from 1997. I will be looking at this page the next time I start work on a new web page.
This article, on the smashing magazine website, shows some cool tricks for working with transparency in CSS. While I am having all sorts of trouble with my CSS page, I am expecting to use these or similar tricks on my page. I recommend checking it out if you need help with transparency
This article, written for the Design Shack website, shows how to code for multiple columns using CSS3. I expect my first site to have just two columns, but adding a third may be in the cards in the future. I expect to impement these ideas in the near future.
This page gives you some instructions on how to make your css clean and more user-friendly. It is a resource on the www.webcredible.com page and there are also other lists of resource tools on the left hand sidebar of the page.
I will use this website for my professional page.
This article, written by German CSS expert Jens Meiert, shows how to make one's page more organized. He opens up by explaining how important it is to make your page orderly. While I am just starting out with this Web Design endeavor, I expect to employ some of Meiert's suggestions with my own work.
This article will help you convert your website designed in photoshop to a real css layout. For many people like myself who can't draw for their lives, I like to use photoshop and similar programs to plot out how I want things to look first. It is usually hard to translate my ideas onto paper, and even harder to translate the paper to a webpage. For those of you with troubles like these, rest them aside.
All about fonts and CSS. If you have any friends how are graphic artists, then you know that fonts are a big deal to them. They somehow many to become addicted to fonts...
This quick how-to, written by Chris Coyler, explains how to resize a background image. It sounds like something that is extremely useful. While I haven't had much experience manipulating images in the past, I see this being a very useful tool to have.
This site shows you how to add certain effects to your css such as dropshadows, rounded edges and sliding tabs, horizontal centering etc.
I will use some of these effects for my page.
This article, written by Alan Pearce for A List Apart magazine talks about how to implement a multi-column layout. I want to use three columns for my Zen CSS page, so I'll be using this trick for sure. I hope it's useful.
This is an awesome site that breaks down the science of each css tool. It gives a simplified explanation and easy to understand examples of how your code will change the visuals of your page. I will use this for reference in the future.
I found this site from a google search: "css image icon horizontal list." I was looking for a way to use images in a list." While the search was fruitless in this respect, it explains, in detail, how to hadnle a variety of lists.
Examining the code may be helpful in deciphering why your lists may/may not be working as you desire.
In this Interactive Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial (HTML & CSS) Post you will learn how to use for basic concepts and there is all new techniques which embed in this latest version, there is some very professional tips and tricks for your web development needs.