Better layout suggestion

[thadley]

Hello-
I was reading an older thread about someone who was having problems using tables as a key layout tool... Rob (Webforumz site admin) responded with the following information:

Originally Posted by rob

"I think the best advice I can give, is to begin learning CSS / XHTML for your layouts and dump tables... you will pick it up quite quickly and believe me when I say, you'll thank me, and never use tables again."

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to learn CSS/XHTML? Anyone have a favorite book, website, tutorials online, etc. that they could share?

Any help would be appreciated!

[benbacardi]

www.w3schools.com/css is really good

[Webnauts]

If you are beginner in CSS, you sure would like to have a look here: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

[thadley]

Any suggestions for learning XHTML?? I do understand what CSS are and how to use them (just haven't ever done it in practice!). I really know nothing about XHTML, so any help with finding some resources would be great!!

[benbacardi]

again, www.w3schools.com/xhtml

[thadley]

Thank you!

[herkalees]

Also, spend a little $$ on these two books: http://www.simplebits.com/publications/

[Edgee]

Here is something ive just found: http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php

[thadley]

Edgee-
I'm confused to what this is?? Is it a paid service/subscription to get the template? The layout-o-matic function is cool, but how can it help me?

Maybe I'm clueless... Thanks for your comment!

[Edgee]

Well i thought it would come in handy for you to see a few examples of css layouts. You can just choose the one you want and down load the source code to play with. Thats the way i learn things. pull it apart, swap things around and see what happens when you change things.