Via Simon Willison, I found what’s probably a Godsend for people just learning CSS: how to duplicate old-school visual effects without using those attributes (align, height, width, marginheight, center) that you aren’t supposed to use anymore.
Someday (this week?) I’m going to post here a revised list of CSS tutorial sites. Visiting them in order will give you a much better start with CSS than I had.
I was introduced through Teach Yourself HTML 4 in Ten Minutes, which was not bad for upgrading my knowledge from HTML 3.2, but was absolutely bass-ackwards in its explanation of CSS. For example, it pretty much fails to mention that you can style all the text on your page with something like this:
p { color: #f00; }
… and instead talks about classes.
.redparagraph { color: #f00; }
Want to know why so many of us started out using classes for everything under the sun? I imagine I’m not the only one who found this book in the remainder bin for $4 and chose it over the larger, more comprehensive $30 web manuals.