Sent by Mark Story on 20 March 2007 16:04
Hi Charles.
A couple good CSS resources are:
The w3:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning
and w3schools.com :
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
These are both good references, and finding a book or online cheat sheet
(*http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/css-cheat-sheet/)* is
also a good idea.
As for external and embedded style sheets. External sheets are
excellent because they allow you to reuse the same stylesheet file on
all the pages in your site. This saves bandwidth and allows for faster
page response as the CSS file is cached locally on the user's machine.
I personally use embedded CSS sometimes when I first start a page and am
too lazy to make and go back and forth between 2 files. However, I
always use external CSS files on finished sites for the reasons above.
-Mark
Charles Marcus wrote:
> [snip]
> Anyway - where can I go to learn the entry level basics about CSS -
> like, for example, the question prompting this email - the difference
> between embedded CSS (is that the term?) - I mean, CSS that is
> included/defined in the .html document itself, as opposed to external
> CSS, where the .css files are external to the html document - and which
> is more appropriate for which circumstances?
>
> Thanks to everyone for being here - I'm sure I'll have a bunch of
> questions over the next few months, but want to spend some time
> familiarizing myself with the basics first, and would prefer some good
> starter doc pointers from the brains here.
>
> Obviously, one of the main benefits I'm hoping to achieve is to learn
> web development right the first time, as opposed to learning a bunch of
> bad habits that I later have to unlearn.
>
> :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
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