Following on from an earlier post on styling your church website which suggested in more than one place to edit CSS, it is perhaps necessary to explain the CSS editing process and what you can do to make it easier.
But what is CSS? Here are some resources;
- The Wikipedia article on CSS
- More technical are the CSS specifications you may want to read for more detail.
- Further list of resources on the open directory.
For more practical help in editing CSS you may want to look at an excellent article by Lorelle on building a sandbox for theme development. She describes a technique for speeding up the CSS editing process and ensuring all elements are styled. (This is not the same however as the sandbox theme though I wrote about in a previous post).
My only advice is to dig in and try. You may get frustrated, but don’t give up. And when you think you are happy be sure to test and retest your work on a range of systems and browsers.
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6 March 2007 at 10:57 pm
Nathan
Agreed that the best way to learn is to jump in. I did this about 2 years ago, and learned in no time at all.
CSS isn’t hard, in fact, it’s quite logical. Take an element (div, span, headers, paragraphs) and use CSS to make those elements look the way you want them to. You definitely want to learn html first though
Great church websites are heavily dependent on the designer’s knowledge of CSS.
Good series David!
Nathan
9 March 2007 at 2:48 pm
David
Cheers Nathan, you would think that we would be past the need to hand code CSS these days wouldn’t you? But some things never change.