CSS Course Dilemma

November 30, 2005 at 10:54 am · Filed under CSS, Geek talk

So here’s the thing. Having been at my job now for a month, I’ve done a hell of a lot of reading the ins and outs of CSS layout design and such like and come across various issues with cross browser compatibility, so much so that I’m pulling out my hair when IE5 on the MAC doesn’t want to behave itself after Firefox, Safari, Camino and all the others are fine…

Anyhow, reading articles and books is fine, but realising that going on a course/workshop is needed is even better, so I put it on the table for my boss and she was happy to pay for it if I could find one suited for my needs.

Enter the dilemma…

Came across a course being held in January by Dave Shea of CSS ZenGarden by CarsonWorkshops which looks great. Now I was originally gonna get booked onto this, but then came across an advanced CSS day course run by GBDirect. This course seems to be more technical and allows a thorough going through of what you need to know, whereas the Dave Shea course seems to concentrate more on the workflow and popular problems you may encounter in layout building.

The problem is that the GBDirect course isn’t available until March, whereas the CarsonWorkshop is in January…now do I hold out until March or take the January course? And before anyone asks, I don’t think its an option to take both at this point in time!

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More CSS sites

November 8, 2005 at 4:34 pm · Filed under CSS, Geek talk

Been browsing through a lot of sites that have adopted the CSS layout fad at the moment, and thought I’d share a few more with you:

• StyleGala - another web standards site.
• Stop Design AND another css/web standards site.
• 31three - a nice looking CSS layout based site.

Anyone that can help me in figuring out the difference in benefits of XHTML strict and XHTML transitional doctypes would be greatly appreciated!!!

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Swotting up!

October 18, 2005 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Accessibility, CSS, Geek talk

So after a month of applying, I’ve landed myself a new job, and start in a couple of weeks…but its suddenly dawned on me that I’ve got to seriously brush up on the daily ins and outs of coding, the web, usability, accessibility, design and all that jazz.

That’s why I’ve taken it upon myself to read books eg:

• Bulletproof Web Design (D. Cederholm)
• Designing with Web Standards (J. Zeldman)
• the Zen of CSS design - visual enlightenment for the web (D. Shea & M. E. Holzschlag)
• Web Standards Solutions - The Markup and Style Handbook (D. Cederholm)

And add a bunch of links to the right here…but whew…my brain can only absorb so much…however, any other recommendations for links or books would be greatly appreciated.

For those that maybe interested, there’s a CSS workshop on the 18th November so go check it out!

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