Chapter 8

Style Sheets: Pros and Cons

The Layout is dead, Long Live the Layout at http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/good_oil/dead_layout/index.html

Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/.

Working with CSS (Apple Internet Developer) at developer.apple.com/internet/css/introcsslayout.html. Discusses benefits and problems of creating multi-column layouts using CSS.

Why Use CSS? at http://tech.irt.org/articles/js135/index.htm

Style Sheet Dependence (Web Design Group) at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/dependence.html

Web Standards for Hard Times (WebMonkey) at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/33/index1a.html

W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative at http://www.w3.org/WAI/

The Web Isn't for Everyone...Yet (WebMonkey) at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial5.html

Bobby at http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp. Checks your HTML and CSS for conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 or U.S. Section 508 Guidelines.

General CSS Resources

Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 (CSS1) specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2

Introduction to CSS3 (W3C) at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-roadmap-20010406/

Cascading Style Sheets (Web Design Group) at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

CSS2 Reference (W3Schools) at http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

Stylesheets Guide (WebMonkey) at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/stylesheet_guide/

House of Style: Cascading Style Sheets Resources at http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/index.html

WebDeveloper.com's Guide to Cascading Style Sheets at http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_css_1.html

CSS1 Reference (Zvon.org) at http://www.zvon.org/xxl/css1Reference/Output/

CSS2 Reference (Zvon.org) at http://www.zvon.org/xxl/CSS2Reference/Output/

Index DOT Css at http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebloo/indexdot/css/

Comprehensive CSS Guide at http://wsabstract.com/dhtmltutors/css1.shtml

CSS2 Quick Reference at http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/css_intro.html

The CSS Pointers Group at http://www.css.nu/

A List Apart: Articles on CSS at http://www.alistapart.com/stories/indexCSS.html

A Slacker's Guide to Style Sheets at http://www.slackerhtml.com/stylesheets/

CSS FAQs

CIWAS (comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets) Stylesheet Authoring FAQ at http://css.nu/faq/ciwas-aFAQ.html

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and Aural CSS FAQ Knowledge Base at http://developer.irt.org/script/css.htm

CSS Frequently Asked Questions (HTML Writers Guild) at http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/cssFAQ.html

WebReview.com's CSS FAQ at http://www.webreview.com/style/css-faq.shtml

The CSShark Answers FAQ at http://www.mako4css.com/

CSS Tutorials

CSS1 Tutorial (RichInStyle) at http://richinstyle.com/guides/css1.html

CSS2 Tutorial (RichInStyle) at http://richinstyle.com/guides/css2.html

CSS Tutorial (W3Schools) at http://www.w3schools.com/css/

CSS2 Tutorial (W3Schools) at http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

CSS1 and CSS2 Selectors, Pseudo-Classes, and Pseudo-Elements

Selectors (W3C CSS2 Specification) at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html

CSS2 Selectors Support Chart (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/style/css2/charts/selectors.shtml

Universal Selector (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/2000/06_09/webauthors/06_09_00_3.shtml

The Adjacent Sibling Selector (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/style/2000/07_21_00.shtml

Attribute Selectors (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/style/2000/08_11_00.shtml

Attribute Selectors Part 2 (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/style/2000/08_18_00.shtml

Attribute Selectors Part 3 (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/style/2000/08_25_00.shtml

New Pseudo-Classes (WebReview.com) at http://www.webreview.com/style/2000/07_28_00.shtml

CSS Pseudo-Elements (W3Schools) at http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_elements.asp

CSS Tutorial: Drop Caps (:first-letter) at http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa082201a.htm

CSS Tutorial: Fancy First Lines (:first-line) at http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa082901a.htm

Browser Support, Compatibility, and Validation

WebReview.com's Style Sheet Reference Guide at http://www.webreview.com/style/. Includes Browser Style Compatibility charts that show which browsers support (or do not support) which CSS features

CSS1 and CSS2 Browser Support Info at http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/browser_support/

The Web Standards Project's Browser Upgrade Campaign at webstandards.org/act/campaign/buc/. Click the "Developers Tips" for instructions on how to use their DOM Sniff or Invisible Object methods to alert or redirect users of older browsers with less than optimal support for CSS

To Hell with Old Browsers at http://www.alistapart.com/stories/tohell/

CSS Page Layout Resources

Page Layout with Cascading Style Sheets at http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/css_layout/index.html

CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit at http://glish.com/css/

Layout Techniques: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques at http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/

Introduction to CSS Layout (Apple Internet Developer) at http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/introcsslayout.html

Introduction to CSS Layout (O'Reilly Network) at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/03/01/css_layout.html

Advanced CSS: Layout at http://4dw.net/htmlassistance/CSSlayouttut.html

CSS Layouts at http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/

The Layout Reservoir (BlueRobot) at http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

CSS/Edge at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/

Web Design: Style Sheets at http://www.glassdog.com/design-o-rama/webdesign-css.shtml?css

Little Boxes at http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html

Miscellaneous CSS-Related Resources

http://www.web-expert.dk/html/new.shtml at New and deprecated HTML 4.0 elements and attributes

On Local Handling of URIs at http://www.css.nu/articles/uri.html

Displaying XML with CSS at http://javertising.com/webtech/cssxml.htm

CSS Newsgroups, Forums, and Mailing Lists

The comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets USENET newsgroup, is the main newsgroup for reading or posting queries on the subject of CSS and other style sheet languages. Use a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Free Agent, Xnews, or NewsWatcher (Macintosh), for instance, to subscribe to the newsgroup, or you can view and post to the newsgroup at Google Groups at groups.google.com/.

Index DOT Css' HTML/CSS discussion forum at http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/indexdot/css/ . Click on the Tools link to get to the discussion forum.

HWG-Critique mailing list (run by the HTML Writers Guild) .Members can request feedback on their Web page designs, as well as provide feedback to others. A free trial membership (valid for up to a year) is available, after which the membership fee is $40/year. http://www.hwg.org/lists/hwg-critique/