Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/21/07 17:03

Scripsit Brian Robertson:

> Time is the enemy with me. I just don't have enough time to sit down
> and study something.

Then don't do CSS, m'kay? I don't have enough time to learn surgery, so I
leave it to others, instead of trying to exercise it without mastering it.
CSS is somewhat easier to learn than surgery, but your lack of time does not
magically turn it to simpler than it is.

> I bought a book a few weeks ago that is ok and I
> regularly buy a mag that includes tutorials, but I have learnt more
> this morning from just taking a website template to pieces and seeing
> how it works.

You don't see how it works. In a pretty common scenario, you just see how a
crappy CSS implementation (that spells "IE") mishandles lousy CSS code
(which is what you mostly get when you view random pages) today in "Quirks"
mode.

There are lots of good tutorials on CSS, and of course even many more poor
tutorials and guides. A quick test: when the tutorial first mentions setting
color or background, does it emphasize that you should always set color and
background together? If not, find a better tutorial. Also check whether it
has a section on cascade. (That's the "C" in "CSS". You can't avoid
encountering its effects, so you should not try to avoid understanding it,
no matter how complicated it may sound on first encounter.)

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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