CCS for common people?

[matiasasun]

Hello:

Could you be so kind to recommend me a good but simply program to understand CCS?
Is there something like one of those "what you see is what you get" to start learning?

Matias, Chile

[ukexpat]

Hello:

Could you be so kind to recommend me a good but simply program to understand CCS?
Is there something like one of those "what you see is what you get" to start learning?

Matias, Chile

Matias

Don't know anything about CCS, but for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) try:

TopStyle: http://www.bradsoft.com

And for on-line info try:

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

http://www.csszengarden.com/

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

[matiasasun]

Thanks a lot Nigel. I´m triying to understand DreamWeaver now but it is very complicated to start with. I do understand the general idea of the concepto but I suppose there are other things that I need to learn from the logic of this code... All I get is a simple white page with black captions in it; far from what I "designed".

I´ll see what you wrote Nigel. Anyone else have some ideas? Maybe an Online page to create our own CCS or something like that?

[ukexpat]

Thanks a lot Nigel. I´m triying to understand DreamWeaver now but it is very complicated to start with. I do understand the general idea of the concepto but I suppose there are other things that I need to learn from the logic of this code... All I get is a simple white page with black captions in it; far from what I "designed".

I´ll see what you wrote Nigel. Anyone else have some ideas? Maybe an Online page to create our own CCS or something like that?

Matias, DreamWeaver is a pro level design tool -- not for the faint of heart. I would start with TopStyle and take it from there.

[matiasasun]

Yes... In deed. Took some time but I decided to quit that way.
One of the links you refered was pretty useful in understanding the general idea; it was a page with exercises online. Very good. Thanks.
I´ll try with the shareware version the software you told.

[srijith]

Couple of referece links
http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/
http://www.alistapart.com/ <- not introduction, but some neat tricks
http://www.css-discuss.org/ <- not introduction, but a great mailing list with some good discussions

[ms_c]

Could you be so kind to recommend me a good but simply program to understand CCS?

The approach I've used and recommend:

1) Find a site that will let you create an online photo gallery, and apply some effects to it (myshoots.com for example);
2) Read the HTML/CSS code that the site generates *for you*, and use that as your starting point.

This way, you will begin by learning the aspects of CSS and HTML that are most directly relevant to what you want to accomplish.