[WEB4LIB] Elementary CSS Questions

[Bill Feidt]

The WDG Web site provides excellent support for CSS:

  http://www.htmlhelp.org/reference/css/

In particular, you will want to become familiar with the
CSS properties area which offers easy-to-use CSS documentation:

  http://www.htmlhelp.org/reference/css/properties.html

Their CSS Checker is an excellent resource for debugging CSS
style sheets.  When things don't work the way you expect, perform
this check as a first step:

  http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/csscheck/

CSS will tend to not work correctly if your HTML is not valid
either, so you'll want to get into the habit of validating your
HTML:

  http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/

The CSS Pointers Group Web site offers a wealth of problem solving
articles:

  http://css.nu/

The book: "Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for the Web",
by  Hakon Wium Lie, Bert Bos, Robert Cailliau, 2d edition, Addison-Wesley
is very thorough and clear.  See:

 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201596253/o/qid=938537982/sr=8-1/002
-3506746-2659202

The CSS newsgroup is:

  comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

Hope this helps. I am in no way affiliated within any of the Web sites
mentioned.  Just a pleased user.

Best wishes,

Bill Feidt
AgNIC
wfeidt at agnic.org

-----Original Message-----
From: John Creech [mailto:creechj at mumbly.lib.cwu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 5:51 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Elementary CSS Questions

I have two beginner's questions about implementing style sheets; I have
just begun experimenting with them.

[...]

I don't want to take up alot of bandwidth on this, but if anybody's
got a 1 min. answer and some pointers, I'd sure appreciate it.  Thanks.

John Creech
Electronic Resources & Systems Librarian
Central Washington University Library 
400 E. 8th Ave. | Ellensburg, WA 98926 | 509-963-1081
creechj at www.lib.cwu.edu