Comments on: New Amazon Guide: So You’d Like To Become a Front-End Web Design Guru

By: Chris O'Byrne

Chris O'Byrne — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:19:52 +0000

I concur.

By: Meitar

Meitar — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:35:44 +0000

As an add-on to my previous post about learning while you work, take a look at Robert Blum’s experiment on productivty over on his blog. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about for you on CSS. It’s how I know everything I do, and it’s the primary method I use to learn new things.

By: Meitar

Meitar — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:28:55 +0000

only problem is that I have work to do, and no time to learn…

Aba, why not learn while you work? I didn’t start making CSS layouts overnight. I used tables just like I had in the past, except that I stripped out as much of the table’s presentation from the HTML as I could (cell padding is a good example) and replaced it with CSS.

Over time, I was using more and more CSS, and eventually that’s all I ever needed.

By: Meitar

Meitar — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:46:12 +0000

But what about Flash?! […] Thanks to CSS and Amazon, I now have fancy cars, fast women, and expensive whiskey!

LoL! God bless Amazon. And Flash does seem like an awfully conspicuous missing piece, doesn’t it? Oh well! ;)

By: Chris O'Byrne

Chris O'Byrne — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:20:15 +0000

But what about Flash? You can’t design a real web site without Flash!!

Excellent synopsis, by the way… I even have a lot of these books! I started learning CSS by buying the CSS Cookbook and picking apart the examples. From there I moved up to Eric Meyer’s book and others until I finally had a good grip on the whole thing. Thanks to CSS and Amazon, I now have fancy cars, fast women, and expensive whiskey!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:27:31 +0000

only problem is that I have work to do, and no time to learn…