Articles & tutorials in English
- 2010-03-16 The annotated slides from my (Bert's) presentation at SXSW on the history of WebFonts are online.
- 2009-12-04
Style sheets can take the language of a document into account
(with the ':lang'
pseudo-class)… but only if the document is correctly
labeled. W3C's I18N WG
published the latest guidelines on Choosing
a language tag.
- 2009-06-23 The “CSS Summit” is a one-day, online conference on July 18, 2009, hosted by Christopher Schmitt. Speakers include Molly Holzschlag, and Jason Cranford Teague. Early registration (until July 3) is USD 139.
- 2009-02-13
Jens Meiert
maintains a list of CSS
properties, including those in working drafts, with links to
the relevant specifications.
- 2008-07-09 The browser maker Opera, in association with the Yahoo Developer Network, offers courses in standards-based Web development aimed at universities, schools and other institutions. The courses consist of several dozen chapters, downloadable for free.
- 2008-04-23 SitePoint offers a CSS reference (CSS level 2)
- 2007-08-16 xhtml.com publishes an alphabetical CSS 2.1 reference with screenshots for most properties.
- 2006-12-05 HTML.net offers a CSS tutorial (also in several other languages).
- 2006-07-31 Stu Nicholls offers CSSplay, a site with CSS examples, including many uses of ':hover'.
- 2006-05-03 Cultured Code offers a compact, interactive CSS 2.1 properties reference (warning: requires JavaScript).
- 2006-01-17 Emil Stenström has written a Beginners guide to CSS and standards.
- 2005-11-29 A List Apart published an article Printing a book with CSS: Boom! by Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie. Discuss it on the Microformats wiki.
- 2005-02-03 Max Design publishes several articles and tutorials on CSS, including the Listamatic 1 and 2 (“one list, many options”).
- 2004-12-16 Westciv released their CSS 2.1 guide in iPod Notes format (iPod, free)
- 2004-04-19 A tutorial for beginners by myself (Bert) helps to create a first style sheet. No special software needed.
- 2003-01-08 A random selection of sites that show rounded corners, shadows, tab panes, and other CSS tricks; some simple, some more flexible: Mark Schenk's CSS experiments, Ian Andolina's (Nontroppo) CSS sketchbook, the css-discuss Wiki's rounded corners page and Douglas Bowman's (A List Apart) sliding doors. and Applook.com's dynamic tabs [copy at archive.org].
- 2003-12-10 Nigel Peck (MIS Web Design) shows how one page can randomly show different content every time with a dynamically generated style sheet. This also avoids that caches, search engines and the Web Archive have to download the page anew. Gez Lemon (Juicystudio) shows how you can provide alternative style sheets to people with browsers that don't support them (although they have to turn on cookies).
- 2003-09-29 Big John shows at Position Is everything how to do layout with floats and absolute positioning and work around browser bugs.
- 2003-07-22 The CSS Zen Garden is a project where graphic artists invent many beautiful styles for one single HTML file. There are also versions in French, Dutch, Russian and other languages.
- 2003-07-01 Westciv offers courses in CSS and HTML.
- 2002-12-16 An article by Christopher Schmitt at Web Reference titled “Making Headlines with Cascading Style Sheets” shows you how to spice up Web page headers with a dash of CSS.
- 2002-07-09 An article by Christopher Schmitt in Digital Web Magazine titled "Web Page Reconstruction with CSS" explains how to convert old HTML-based layout to CSS and what you gain by doing so.
- 2002-06-04 Dominique Hazaël-Massieux has written a short tutorial on layout without tables.
- 2002-05-22 Introduction to CSS by Tapio Markula is the English translation of a Finish tutorial.
- 2001-10-24 Code Style media monitor, by Philip Shaw, is a guide to writing style sheets for projection, print and other media.
- 2001-05-23 Westciv published version 3 of their online CSS guide, covering all of CSS2 as well as browser compatibility issues. (Free online, enhanced version for sale.)
- 2001-05-22 Eric Costello's CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit concentrates on complex layouts and also explains how to work around browser bugs.
- 2001-01-30 W3Schools is a site with tutorials on many Web technologies, including CSS.
- 2000-09-28 Eric Meyer demonstrates the power of user style sheets in two humorous articles: The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook and Using CSS as a diagnostic tool.
- 2000-12-11 The Zvon site has a tutorial on CSS for XML.
- 2000-03-29 XML Web pages with Mozilla, by Simon St. Laurent, is a tutorial on styling XML.
- 2000 RichInStyle.com has a CSS2 tutorial, spiced with the author's comments, and (soon) also a “CSS masterclass.”
- 1996 The Web Design Group has authored a comprehensive guide to CSS. Find out how style sheets can be abused
- 1998 HTML Writer's Guild has published a CSS FAQ.
- 1997-04-21 Steven Pemberton has compiled a Quick Reference to CSS1. Joachim Schwarte has done a similar table of CSS1 properties.
- 1997-07-01 Jacob Nielsen has published a guide for Effective Use of Style Sheets
- 1996 Urban Fredriksson has written a Short Guide to CSS
- 1997-12 An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets by Norman Walsh, originally published in the World Wide Web Journal.
