Dreamweaver css help

first of all, learning CSS is the best thing you ever decided to do. it's the present and the future of web design. it's fun and you can do everything in it.

however, it's not something you can learn quickly. you can learn the basics of it fairly quickly, but later on it becomes like programming, you'll have to come up or read up for tricks yourself.

CSS in a nutshell is a language which tells your html elements to act in certain ways. for example if you want all you H1 headlines to be red, you can simply say in the CSS the following:

h1 {color:red}

start learning here:

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/index.html

next download Firefox and the developer extension. if you're looking at a web page you like you can always press Apple-E (Cmd-E) to see it's CSS. you can even modify it and see how it affects the page.

http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

if you get stuck ask away. the key for learning CSS is to be persistent. your brain will only be able to take in information bit by bit, so learn a bit every day rather than sitting down for hours. i guess programming language is a bit far fetched for my brain, not like riding a bike that I can learn fairly easily or like learning a language that comes more naturally.

The dev tools for firefox rock!!! We have huge projects at my current job that would be insane w/o it!

I highly suggest the o'Rielly CSS textbook. I found years go its a lot better to dig through a book. I think a lot of people try to "pick stuff up" my fiddling, which is fine, but I really think its easier for at least to just spend a day or two reading cover to cover....and experimenting at the same time... I find its just simply faster that way, and I hate learning that there was a better way to do something long after I've been doing it the tough way for months.

Tools like dreamweaaver are a lot easier to handle when you know your stuff and you just just use them as tools, try not to rely on them like crutches.

I just read that and it brings up a good point. We all have our own learning styles. It probably really depends on where someone is in that spectrum of ultra-creative to ultra-techincal, or whatever that range would be called. I'm the opposite (though hopefully I have a little creativity:) ). If I need to know a language or something I'll buy a quality textbook and read cover to cover for a good 12 hours....then apply it witht the textbook closeby.

http://csslibrary.org/

interesting project from the guys who created cssvault.

that is awesome, thanks for the links and advice.

Wow! Those Dev tools are FANTASTIC!

I know a few friends of mine that would be very interested in an IE version of those tools...

I'll see what I can do! :) lol