Stylin' with CSS
by Charles Wyke-Smith · first published 2005
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Explains how to style text, create style sheets, position content, create links, design navigation, and style forms, lists, and tables, to enable any level designer to start quickly creating sites with CSS.
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The ones I've found that are good starting points: Stylin' with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith - its mainly a (good) CSS book but gives enough hints at good design so you don't go overboard. Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte - again CSS tutorial with emphasis…
on “Ask HN: Best Books for Learning Web Design?” ↗I like examples, how things work, but not a lot of fluff... Two books permanently on my shelf for CSS and HTML are Stylin' with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith, and Visual Quickstart Guide to HTML by Elizabeth Castro. Both books covered the basics enough to get a grasp of the big picture. Mainly if I had a question about where X goes…
on “Ask HN: As a programmer, what would you be looking for in a HTML & CSS book?” ↗As a fellow programmer, I find CSS non intuitive. The best book I've found as a programmer is Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith. Not as much BS, cuts to the chase. Second: start with simple styleshheet and build from there. Don't buy into the ultra fancy complex stuff till you feel…
on “Ask HN: What is the best way to learn CSS” ↗…scripting add in a database if that's your thing. Once you are adept at getting data in and out from the server then look into prettifying things up with CSS. A good beginning reference for CSS is "Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide" by Charles Wyke-Smith, good basics. Problem with CSS is there is a lot of crap overload out there mainly because of browser variation - strive to find the simpler solutions.
on “Ask HN: Where to start learning web development in 2017?” ↗…lots of technologies (CSS is truly brain damaging to logical back-end folk, take it easy)... also best to keep your HTML as simple as possible and style and script out from there. for a book, I suggest Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith Very good terse visual intro to CSS, will give you a good insight on what CSS is capable of, which is quite a lot. Look for the basics on responsive layouts,…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite web front-end ressources?” ↗…stuff. Second would be various tools and frameworks that may have been partially implemented in some other peoples' teaching of CSS. I would say these two books cleared away a lot of the muck for me: Stylin' with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith - very concise. I also found bits in Handcrafed CCS by Dan Cederholm to be good as it worked on either bad styling or no styling and how to clean up stuff or achieve a good effect…
on “Ask HN: Best book or resource to REALLY grasp CSS?” ↗…ache when you work with it. The best way to get over that is to work with it to get a feel for the syntax, Once you get a handle on that it gets way easier. Two books that helped me the most were: Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith This is kinda dated but does good on getting the basic structure down with a little bit on how CSS makes pages look better. Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm…
on “Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning CSS well?” ↗…can reduce a lot of overhead if you don't care about animated headings and the like. My suggestion is: - Try to keep it simple - start with the basics - A older but very good book on CSS basics is: Stylin' With CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith - Use the inspect/debugging tools in your web browser to reveal the smoke and mirrors of website elements you like to figure out whats doing the actual work.…
on “Ask HN: I can't grok front end development” ↗