Keeping Current via the Internet ...............................................................
The most thorough descriptions of the latest proposals, drafts, and recom-
mendations can be found at the official site for CSS:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
At this site, you find tutorials, news, reviews of utilities, actual utilities (such
as the various “validators” that check your HTML or CSS code for errors
described in Chapter 17), and other information. Although heavily slanted
toward the academic community — where theory and minutia so often tri-
umph over efficiency and common sense — you can also find practical
advice at this site too. True, you must ferret out the practical info because
it’s surrounded by smoke and mist. Let me be plain: I suggest you first try
some of the other sources of CSS information described later in this chapter.
(However, if you have any suggestions about future CSS features, you can
send them to the official committees via this site, so keep that in mind.)
Upgrading HTML Web Pages to CSS .........................................................
Many designers find CSS so efficient that they decide to translate their exist-
ing HTML-based Web pages into CSS-based pages. This involves more than
simply replacing <font>tags, but you’ll likely find the payoff well worth the
effort. You can find an excellent, step-by-step tutorial on migrating a site from
HTML to CSS here:
http://www.websitetips.com/info/css/intro1/
Finding Good Tutorials and Reference Information ...............................
Besides this book (and I say this in all humility), one of the best places to find
solid, useful advice and tutorial lessons about CSS (and related technologies
as well) is the w3Schools site. It’s good for looking up details about CSS fea-
tures, finding code examples, or just reading some well-done descriptions of
how and why CSS works. Take a look here:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
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