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December 07, 2004
Learning CSS - Finding Good CSS Tutorials
I've been trying to understand CSS and CSS positioning for a day now but with no success. I pride myself on being pretty intelligent and can usually understand these things in a single day -- or in just minutes sometimes.
But this CSS is a bit baffling. I've found that the reason is that CSS is not like other computer languages where you can simply look at the syntax ... the for loops, while loops, and the functions and then you pretty much understand the whole thing.
CSS seems to be using a whole different kind of approach to normal computer languages. For one thing its very positional... Its very much about where something is going to fit on a page. And that can be hard for some teachers to write about and hard for some numbers-and-structures-type personalities like me to understand.
The best tip I've found for learning CSS on the web is simply this:
- Search for a CSS topic on Google
- If you read a tutorial for a while and it doesn't make sense, just leave it straight away
- Go straight back to Google and try and another tutorial
CSS tutorials are written very differently. I've found I've had to read several tutorials to read up a picture of what CSS is all about.
The key is that its a positional language - each command in CSS is a just like a brush of paint. So you cannot really learn it if the tutor just lists commands and principles, just as you can't learn to paint by memorising different colors and the methods of painting.
You need to see real examples to understand this language.
Here's a great simple-language resource for learning CSS and CSS Positioning.
Posted by onelukey at December 7, 2004 04:15 PM
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