CSS Tutorials – CSSHelper.net

Below is a collection of the best videos on CSS available on the web, hand-picked personally by me.

Short Introductory Videos

Using CSS by Joseph Lowery (03:43)

This video explains what cascading style sheets (CSS) are. You learn the basics of CSS and the primary interfaces in Dreamweaver to work with CSS. You learn how to apply basic CSS to a web page that contains text using Dreamweaver; specifically, you create and embed a new CSS rule for a heading and paragraph

Introduction To CSS Editing Using Firebug by Jim Plush (3:17)

The firebug firefox extension allows you to edit in real time your CSS code. Instead of having to make a change, reload, make a change, reload you can just edit it live to see the results.

Basics With Sample Code

Introduction to CSS by Heather James (15:26)

Good basic introduction to CSS. In the first half of the video, she explains what CSS is and its basic concepts. In the second half of the video she shows us some examples. At one point she even uses Firebug. Cool!

Creating Beautiful Interfaces with CSS by Douglas Bowman (01:02:51)

Drop-down menus and sophisticated interface elements have traditionally been implemented using JavaScript and kludgy coding workarounds that often don’t work. It’s increasingly practical to deliver rich, beautiful, functional interfaces using semantic markup and CSS. Learn how modern markup can deliver great Web interfaces that are fast and reliable.

Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. How To Make Website From Scratch by Jimmy Ruska (39:20)

A good basic tutorial on HTML and CSS. The first 10 minutes covers mostly basic HTML. Skip to the 9-minute mark to go straight to the CSS portion of the video.

Introduction to CSS by Stefan Mischook

A good, free video tutorial by Stefan Mischook of Killersites.com

Full Website Conversion Videos

100% CSS Web Design Series by Psmeg

A series of videos which details how to create a pure CSS based website using Adobe Dreamweaver. The series is composed of 9 parts nonetheless it is quite good and very easy to follow.

Converting a Photoshop Mockup Series by Chris Coyier

How to convert a website designed in Adobe Photoshop to HTML/CSS. Following the success of the first video series, Chris Coyier has come up with another video using a minimal version of the CSS-Tricks website.

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Fans of the swiss army knife of web development Firebug will be happy to hear that this wonderful Firefox add-on has added another blade to its arsenal. With the help of the Firescope add-on, it can now provide CSS and HTML reference in a snap. Just right-click on any tag and click on the context menu to perform a lookup. The tool appears to have been developed by the web gurus over at SitePoint, so tool has links to further information on the SitePoint Reference web site.

The tool is also searchable. You can:

… search for HTML elements, HTML attributes, or CSS properties (or any combination). The search happens live as you type, so usually you’ll only have to type one or two letters to get the results you want.

Check out the screenshots:

• Firescope Homepage
• Install Firescope

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With CSS you can affect how the text displays including the color, alignment, … Fancy Text – CSS Styles for Text – Text Decorations – Text Transformations …

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… the layout of your text using the text properties available in CSS, such as line spacing and text alignment. … text-decoration. The text-decoration …

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The CSS property text-align corresponds to the attribute align used in … property text-decoration makes it is possible to add different “decorations” or ” …

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This website documents Webucator’s Courseware Creation System. … CSS Text. Letter-spacing. Word-spacing. Line-height. Text-align. Text-decoration. Text-indent …

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Text-Align Property. CSS text-align property allows you to control the … applying the value none to the text decoration property and using it with your …

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Text alignment. Background. Padding. Text decoration. Font color. Core.CSS – 526, 532. … Text decoration. Padding. Core.CSS – 4162, 4166, 4173. td.ms-sblink …

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CSS tutorial about text styles such as font size, font weight, text alignment, line height, text decoration and more. … Text decoration …

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CSS Text Indent – change the horizontal indent of HTML text using text-ident, example code and on on … word-spacing. text-align. text-indent. text-decoration …

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