Amazing CSS learning resource
by Sapphire (February 6, 2005)
This has been around for a while, but if you don’t know about it, it’s a must: get the style master :: download from WestCiv. It’s a 30-day demo, but even if you don’t choose to keep it ($60), it’s got an amazing tutorial and references built in. The help files remain accessible after the demo period expires, because they’re just HTML files.
This program started as a WYSIWYG CSS editor, then it became more focused on helping you handcode, just because as you work with CSS in a WYSIWYG format, you find it becomes quicker and easier to handcode. Now it’s evolved into a tool that teaches you CSS - kind of like foreign language tapes that use the “immersion” technique of simply dumping you into the spoken language and letting you begin to sort it out on your own.
Just out of the box, this program will allow you to throw together a very nice web template - nothing fancy, but it’ll work and it’ll look good. Later, it will enable you to design really nice sites without really knowing CSS. But after a little while, you’ll simply find you’ve learned CSS without trying. And for those of us who just can’t visualize, it’ll remain an essential tool even after our hand-coding skills are sharp.
Great program. Anything that helps you get online quickly, but also forces you to learn painlessly - it just doesn’t get any better.
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