i use w3schools as a reference for CSS. they have a lot of tutorials and examples available. the basic framework of CSS is pretty simple: you give your html tags classes (ex: <div class="my_div"> lots of stuff here </div>), and then you give attributes to those classes in the header of your html document (there are other, more elegant ways to do it, but for starting out, this is the simplest).
if you use FireFox, i'd recommend downloading Web Developer. with that installed, any webpage you visit, you can hit ctrl+shift+y and then click on any element to see what its CSS style definitions are. it's handy for when you see a webpage that does something cool and you want to know how it works. you might also check out the Web Developers group.
Lemonkid
Canada
May 2003
AUG 25, 2009 06:52 AM