November 07, 2003
Request Week
Hi All,
To get the activity going here I need your help. I have run into a problem with this little resource. Either no one knows about it or people don't find the tutorials useful. For a full week - Saturday 8th November to Saturday 15th November I will be accepting all requests relating to web standards and CSS. If you have a question or need help I will be happy to solve it all this week.
This excludes building/designing complete sites, I have a life as well!
Get those questions rolling...
October 16, 2003
ALT and TITLE
New tutorial added. You may not believe it but using ALT to display a tooltip is wrong and its time to show you why.
October 14, 2003
CSS Hierarchy
New tutorial added. A look into how to structure your xhtml when a stylesheet can't be accessed.
October 01, 2003
CSS and GIFs.
New tutorial added. Learn how to add animated gifs to your CSS.
September 22, 2003
What? No tables, Why?
New tutorial added. I explain why I have switched to non table layouts. Enjoy.
September 19, 2003
Lets get started
I started up this site so new comers can get a basic understanding of CSS. I individually went down the CSS road and like all things I had good times and bad times. This little site is designed to help you find that road and lead you into the right direction.
It will act as a quick reference to issues you may have relating to CSS, web standards and CSS layouts. I don't claim to be an expert at CSS but one more reference site out there the better it will be for people to get that firm grasp. My main focus point is to teach people that building a CSS layout doesn't have to look plain or minimal, infact they can be a lot more graphic intense than using tables.
In the end whatever you decide, CSS will stay and continually improve and older methods will be threatened with extinction.
Welcome to newbie heaven for CSS.
You've heard all the commotion and now you want a piece of the action. I don't blame you, that is exactly what happened to me!
One day it clicked, why was I redesigning entire sites page by page when I didn't have to? At that time most of us table designers boasted about how we used CSS. Face it, the only reason we used CSS was to fall into the trend of coloured scrollbars and unique link elements!
We had to start somewhere, and I am glad a trend introduced a lot to CSS, only problem is a lot still think that this is all you can do with CSS.
Hopefully the reason you are here is because you now know CSS can do a lot more for you than colour your links and scrollbars.