nrdesign

I have taken some intro classes, I know the basics of Dreamweaver and I can put up a simple web page and I know flash really well, but I want to know more.

I want to learn the inner workings of websites without getting too much into code (i am terrible at math and such things)

I would love to be really confident creating css based websites for clients

I know flash pretty well, but I am more interested in dreamweaver right now

Any links, books or tutorials would be so greatly appreciates

leftover_color

Lucky for you, there isnt a lot of math involved in web-design aside from the 4 basic functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). I would reccomend searching google, the first couple of results usually do some good. Also, www.w3schools.com is where i learned all my CSS. Good luck!

Aarlev

Yeah you don't need to be good at maths to do CSS. A calculator is your friend when messing around with margin, padding and widths. If you want to get stuck into it and want to create compliant CSS/XHTML sites then get a text editor like notepad++ and start coding everything by hand. Wysiwyg editors are useless when it comes to creating professional standards based websites. If you hand code everything from scratch you will get a much better understanding of the code and that will help you a lot when trying to debug sites and solve coding issues.

There are heaps of tutorials online. And the best way to learn is to just mess around with it and learn from your mistakes. There's a lot of trial and error involved when starting out with CSS and you will need a lot of patience (mostly with cross browser issues).

A few sites that can help you:

www.w3schools.com
www.alistapart.com
www.htmldog.com

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egray

I would definitely recommend ditching Dreamweaver and learning to code pages from scratch - it doesn't take that long to learn, the web is full of brilliant examples and tutorials and the results are much better. There are some great tools out there to get you started, try using something like Blueprint as a CSS framework and building pages from that.

Good luck!

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Stegg

I couldn't agree more with @egray. Coding from scratch is the only way you can truly have full control over how everything looks and feels down to the very pixel, not to mention there are no limitations or restrictions on what you can do. Not to mention you don't need any proprietary software like Dreamweaver.

My suggestion is to build a personal website as your sandbox. Make a good design mockup and try to get it into css/xhtml. You will learn all about good markup along the way as you figure out how to make it work. This is how I got into it and now that I'm on my 5th design iteration for my site I can finally say I've mastered css/xhtml. It took me about 2 years to get really good.

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