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Teach yourself CSS the easy way

By: Erich Bihlman

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I taught myself HTML back in the mid-nineties and was proud of













the fact that I was able to accomplish the design of fairly













complex web pages with nothing more than a starter HTML book, an













HTML reference book, and the knowledge I had stored in my head.













But back in those days, we web designers had what looking back













was a fairly limited amount of tools with which to work, and the













quality (or lack thereof) of sites on the web was lackluster at













best.



























Fast-forward to today: The hand-coder has more powerful and













intuitive software packages available that will still allow us













"to get our hands dirty", which brings us to the purpose of this













article. With the standardization of the much anticipated













Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the late-nineties, the web













design community has become familiar with a much more powerful













and precise method of web page layout.



























"But how is an old-time web coder supposed to learn CSS the easy













way?!" Well, I say you should learn it the way I, and countless













others, have:



























1. Download the Firefox browser 2. Install the Html Validator













(based on Tidy) 0.5.9 extension 3. Open one of your "old" HTML













files 4. View the source, click the "Cleanup the page" button 5.













Check the "replace FONT.....tags by CSS" box, then Refresh



























Now you have a very neat and tidy piece of code, with all the













CSS dirty work done for you! At this point you can copy & paste













the resulting code and use it in your project and start figuring













out what it's doing. I was amazed at how easily I was able to













pick it up and start making changes on my own. When I wanted













more information on a certain style it was a just a Google













search away to many excellent CSS resources on the web. I find













it much easier to learn CSS if I get to apply the modifications













to the existing code that I've been working on, and I think you













will too.



























I hope you find this article helpful and if you follow these













steps you should be able to add CSS to your web site design













toolbox in no time!













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