Anyone use CSS? Advise? ...

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I was viewing Shannon's pinned Web Standard's guide, and...:nervous:

I want to use CSS on my “getting busy” website; lots of HTML codes are hiking up the bandwidth (as well as the videos and extra-large photos, which are sadly going), plus I have some issues with the efficiency of the site with different members/browsers. Plus the fact that the design is quite…ugly.

CSS looks complicated, or is it? I even purchased Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.

They say CSS is easier to read, but to me it seams more difficult, and all the tutorials I've read are on the basics, but don't really show how a whole page is set up or website for that matter.
 
I believe I was very lucky to learn how to style a web page straight off in CSS. The transition from tables to CSS is a difficult one by the seems of it, and like Blake has said, once it clicks it's so much easier.
 
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They say CSS is easier to read, but to me it seams more difficult, and all the tutorials I've read are on the basics, but don't really show how a whole page is set up or website for that matter.
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It looks hard only because it's different. It makes plenty of sense once you get it down.

The flexibility CSS offers compared to tabled-based coding is insane. You can practically do anything that comes to mind (throw in a bit of Java and you're blazin').
 
I really ought to get around to learning some more of this. I can change colours, background images ... and that's about it. I've been meaning to, but you know how it is. Once you've got used to tables you can't be bothered to change your habits.
 
I have been doing CSS based layouts for ages, and I have finally cracked it. The only disadvantage to CSS based designs is that you get CSS bugs, but once you know how to fix them, then it becomes very easy (I made the RC Car Source under construction page in half a day including the images). I used to use W3Schools to learn, as well as Position Is Everything and I would highly recommend these sites. :)
 
CSS makes a buttload of sense once you really get your hands into it . I’ve personally always recommended reading Elizabeth Castro’s HTML For the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. I don’t agree with her presentation of XHTML, but otherwise it’s a fantastic book.
 
I didn’t like that book much. I don’t remember it having much on actual techniques.

Anyway, you don’t have to go down the printed route to learn how to use CSS properly. There’s a vast numbner of articles online, it’s easiest/cheapest to go that route, unless you want to have something you can reference whenever you want.
 
Hehe, just made my first CSS based page and I'm very impressed. I can't believe how much more I can do... It's not even difficult to get the hang of.
 
It'll be without images, but ok :P

http://thecarforum.net/page.html

Can't show images because a) I'm still developing stuff and I'd like to be able to see what I'm doing, and b) I don't want any of my members seeing the header of the new design for the site :P. If you're really desperate, PM me and I'll send you a file with the images included or something.
 

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