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CSS : Where to Start
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Does anyone have recommendations on beginners CSS books/guides/manuals/techniques?
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Visual Quickstart Guide series is the best for getting started in anything. And the For Dummies books are awesome. From personal experience I didn't start with any books. I started by downloading stylesheets from all sites I found attractive and compared them against what the pages looked like. Then I tinkered with the CSS to see what does what until I understood it.
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That sounds like a great learning approach.
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CSSEdit is an app that will help fill in syntax for you. It might be good for beginners, but I wouldn't grow dependent on it.
There are only a couple of things that need to be understood about CSS. I could explain them here if you like. Beyond this, it is simply about learning about what the attributes will do for you, and gaining experience with trying stuff on your own. The w3cschools site is a great reference site.
I too don't learn things out of books. For CSS in particular, I don't think that it is complicated enough to warrant this level of study.
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I agree with Besson, personally. One quick tutorial and a reference book (both available free courtesy of the Innerwebs) are all you really need. I never bought a book on CSS in my life and I picked it up fast enough.
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W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
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for me it really helped to learn it as I was learning about proper markup, they go hand in hand.
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I personally find Molly Holzschlag's book, Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge, to be absolutely indispensible because of its standards-based approach to CSS.
In general, try to embrace folks like the Web Standards Project, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman on this and other web-design topics. That crowd is usually spot-on and has a lot of good information.
I don't work for any of these people, BTW, nor do I work for their publishers or clients. I just like them.
The W3Schools material is definitely good for reference; I use it all the time.
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Originally Posted by Super Mario 
Visual Quickstart Guide series is the best for getting started in anything. And the For Dummies books are awesome. From personal experience I didn't start with any books. I started by downloading stylesheets from all sites I found attractive and compared them against what the pages looked like. Then I tinkered with the CSS to see what does what until I understood it.
Same here. I also bought a little CSS lexicon (sort of like a miniature version of the W3C’s online standard—back then, Internet accesses were few and far between, so I needed an offline version).
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