And so it begins
March 18, 2008 – 2:31 pmF0r a very long time, I’ve intended to learn CSS well enough to more aggressively design blog pages and other web sites. Last summer (or was it fall?), Jenny invited me and a number of other people to join her in putting together an RSA panel on the amateur, in which each of us would actually document our learning of a new technology. And so I committed to learning CSS, titling my presentation, “Who’s Afraid of CSS?”
This blog will be a place where I document what I learn, as I learn it. The end product will be a wiki that offers CSS resources. I’m creating it in conjunction with the students working on projects in my English 4040/7040 class: Writing Web 2.0.
3 Responses to “And so it begins”
Guten lucken!
I’ve forgotten a bunch about CSS, and have to reteach myself regularly whenever I redesign the old blogstead. For my money, the best person out there is Eric Meyer. I’ve got a couple of his earlier books, and they’ve always been a good foundation for me.
cgb
By collin on Mar 18, 2008
Thanks for the suggestion, Collin! And it’s good to know that I shouldn’t plan to “master” CSS once and for all, that it will be an ongoing kind of thing.
By Donna on Mar 20, 2008
Oh heck no! What you master is the basic syntax, so that there’s good correspondence between changes on the style sheet and changes on the screen. I don’t do a lot of CSS from scratch, because most of the basic stuff (text, colors, etc.) stays the same from site to site (mine anyway). Once you know how it all works, it becomes a lot easier to tweak…
That last sentence bordered on the stupidly obvious, I fear.
cgb
By collin on Mar 20, 2008