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[rightcoastnj24]

i like this kind of layout...http://www.designbyjaymz.com/
(its another board member, i pm'ed him) anyway i was wondering i only have a basic knowledge of html (used to be good at it coding in notepad, etc a couple years ago) and i guess this guy used css? anyway how long would it take the average or above average person to learn how to make a simplistic website such as this one? i guess im just curious, of course i cant get too far without photoshop:( im using gimp and a program called HTMLGATE

[l3lueMage]

well it really depends on the person and how well you catch on to stuff, CSS isnt that hard to learn and I would say...maybe a month or two to get a good idea of CSS and start creating stuff, maybe even sooner. Really it just depends on the person.

[juketsu]

i learned css and html in about two weeks w/my spare time and now its taking me months to learn php/mysql since i dont have much time ne more...but it shouldnt take long...just follow tuts on p2l and ull have a layout like his in no time...

[rc69]

If you've got a good grasp of HTML, then CSS shouldn't be that hard to pick up. But you'll need to be aware of a few things when you're working on it.
1. Never preview a CSS layout in ANYTHING but an actual browser (IE, FireFox, etc...)
2. Make sure you view it in at least IE and Firefox to make sure things are correct in both (you'll find out more about why as you learn CSS).
3. Before you ask why your CSS isn't working, make sure it validates http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

If you understand that, you should be good, and depending on how much time you're spending on this, you should be able to pick it up in about a month.

p.s. Personally, i learnt the basics of CSS through Dreamweavers automatic CSS thing... but it doesn't know everything, and there are always better ways to learn CSS then the way i did.

[saferwaters]

Yeah

http://www.htmldog.com
http://www.w3schools...css/default.asp

[coolaid]

woah woah woah, back up, we seem to forgotten an important link.

http://scudworkz.com...s/firstwebpage/

ahhh, much better. follow that and you get good xhtml css knowledge and basically the same layout (structure) of the link you posted.

[rightcoastnj24]

coolaid, on Sep 28 2005, 04:43 AM, said:

woah woah woah, back up, we seem to forgotten an important link.

http://scudworkz.com...s/firstwebpage/

ahhh, much better. follow that and you get good xhtml css knowledge and basically the same layout (structure) of the link you posted.

thanks for that link...im following it now, any others that are really good similar to this?