I thought this tutorial did a better job of explaining the coding style and what I can do in the tutorial than last weeks HTML tutorial. This site also tried to make it a little more fun with offering a quiz. But I really liked the CSS examples it gave.
2) CSS tutorial: starting with HTML + CSS http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss
I thought that the local links this tutorial provided were excellent. They did a really good job of breaking the process down step-by-step so I could understand all the layers of creating the page using the code.
3) chapter 2 of the book Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos (2nd edition, 1999, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-59625-3) http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/enter/
CSS works with HTML to create a web page/sheet/document. But CSS gives the creator a little bit more editorial control and allows the creator to be more creative over the end result. But for CSS to work, it must be used in a browser that supports CSS. Even in the right browser- there will be bugs and limitations
Some key terms from the chapter:
CSS rule- a statement about one stylistic aspect of one or more elements -- a rule consists of two parts:
Selector- the part before the left brace that links the HTML document and style
Declaration- the part inside the braces that sets forth the effect. The declaration has two parts separated by a colon- the property and value
CSS stye sheet- is a set of one or more rules that apply to an HTML document-- for it to affect the HTML document it must be glued- for example, you can put the style sheet inside a style element at the top of the document.
What I really liked about this reading were the explanations of common tasks. I liked how easy the explanations were to understand and that the author showed an example of each task.
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