Thanks to all who attended my presentation on CSS last night for techMaine’s Web Design User’s Group. No one threw rotten vegetables or experienced a bout of narcolepsy, which I took to be a good sign.
It was a bit challenging to prepare this presentation because:
- I hadn’t put together a 2-hour presentation on the subject before
- I didn’t know going in how much participants knew about CSS, so I covered a lot of ground, from the basics to some advanced sorcery
- My partner in crime, Jen Ecker, (a.k.a. Dr. JEcker), had to bow out at the last minute due to a stomach bug, leaving me to do the whole 2-hour spiel (Jen sends her regrets and I’m glad to report she’s feeling much better today, though she remains disappointed that she missed out)
Fortunately, on the subject of Web design, I’m usually not at a loss for words.
Here’s the main point. Using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a better, more efficient way to design Web sites. It’s a lingua franca for the Web, along with that other 4-letter “word”, HTML.
CSS has “that same great taste, but it’s less filling“, meaning, you can make great looking sites w/a fraction of the markup. That leads to all kinds of benefits:
- More Flexible Design
- More sophisticated Design
- Easier, quicker maintenance
- Greater Accessibiilty
- Better search engine ranking
- Lower costs for bandwidth, server storage and redesigns
Jen and I have put up a CSS Quick Reference Guide we’re calling CSS 101. It’s here:
http://css.pemaquid.com/101/
Here is a list of some of the other resources we dug up for you. Use them in good health!
Online Resources
Books
Tools
Gurus
