Cole Kuryakin wrote:
> Hello All –
> 
>  
> 
> My background for the past 27 years has been in design. 6 years ago I
> realized the (financial) necessity to begin learning web design. 3 years
> after that came the next leap into HTML/PHP/CSS. So far, so good – well,
> most of the time anyway.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve always been a one-man-band, but now I’m finding myself much busier
> than I can handle by myself so I’ve had to take on another designer who,
> while quite good at his art, has never really been fully and
> satisfactorily exposed to the fundamentals of CSS. So, I’ve got to teach
> him. And that’s the problem.
> 
>  
> 
> While my knowledge of CSS has gotten me through each project, and each
> sheet validates, I still consider myself a “learner” as I’ve never had
> much time to really, really, really “understand” the box model and other
> fundamentals that, lord knows, I SHOULD understand completely by now.
> I’ve learned what I know just via various internet sites and through the
> help and guidance of wonderful groups like the WSG.
> 
>  
> 
> So, I’m at a crossroads… how can I teach something that I don’t feel
> 100% competent in? But the clock is ticking; clients are waiting, and my
> freelance artist is calling asking “humm, this is breaking… how should I
> fix it?” To which I respond … “Ah, humm… let me get back to you on that”
> – and a new email flies out to the good folks in this great group for help.
> 
>  
> 
> With that lengthy pre-amble, I’ve got to ask – is there a GREAT book out
> there that steps through the learning process of CSS right from the bare
> bones that both I and my new artist can use? Not theoretical stuff, but
> hand-on, simply-put, illustrative? There are a lot of books out there I
> know, but I need a great one, that’s very specific about explaining all
> the fundamentals of the box model all the way up. I want to complexly
> stay away from books that promote or talk about css hacks however (I’ve
> been using conditional comments and IE specific sheets to deal with
> these problems with 100% success).

css the definitive guide by eric meyer.  you can get the book through
amazon or o'reilly press or another local book vendor (maybe).

hth,
dwain


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