If you can handle writing HTML in notepad, CSS won't be much of a jump really. You might spend a bit of time looking for the right css syntax - I find that www.blooberry.com is the most useful reference site.
At the moment I'm still working on recognising what the various bits of code are... I'll probably play around with the various properties to get a better idea of what they all do.
Thanks for the link - I think I may end up spending a long while looking through those for ideas...
At the moment, I think my best option is to just make a few sample pages and start fiddling with CSS until the pages look about right :) That way I get to see a few hundred ways to make something not work, giving me a better idea of what the syntax actually does.
I will lend you "Don't Make Me Think" for solid common-sense web design tips. You might want to look at picking up a book by Eric Meyer, Dave Shea, Jeff Zeldman or Dan Cederholm (I hear good things about "Bulletproof CSS") if you want a hardcopy reference.
I don't anticipate you'll have any major troubles with CSS, but be aware you will inevitably run into some trouble with different interpretations of the standards by different browsers (one of the reasons that I don't read the W3C specifications is because I'm just not that optimistic ^_^). Luckily, your audience will have a disproportionately high incidence of Firefox and IE7, both of which are pretty good. I'm also happy to help - just bug me via gtalk :)
For inspiration - CSS Zen Garden For software (Mac): mostly because it lets you look 'under the hood' at other people's CSS - CSSEdit For layout design - Coloured boxes
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At the moment I'm still working on recognising what the various bits of code are... I'll probably play around with the various properties to get a better idea of what they all do.
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At the moment, I think my best option is to just make a few sample pages and start fiddling with CSS until the pages look about right :) That way I get to see a few hundred ways to make something not work, giving me a better idea of what the syntax actually does.
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I don't anticipate you'll have any major troubles with CSS, but be aware you will inevitably run into some trouble with different interpretations of the standards by different browsers (one of the reasons that I don't read the W3C specifications is because I'm just not that optimistic ^_^). Luckily, your audience will have a disproportionately high incidence of Firefox and IE7, both of which are pretty good. I'm also happy to help - just bug me via gtalk :)
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For inspiration - CSS Zen Garden
For software (Mac): mostly because it lets you look 'under the hood' at other people's CSS - CSSEdit
For layout design - Coloured boxes
Building
For navigation - Listutorial
For positioning on the page - Floatutorial
For CSS validation - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) CSS validator
For tables (for your data only, please) - Accessible Data Tables
For footer inspiration - 19 Gorgeous Website Footers
Useful HTML stuff
For HTML validation - W3C HTML validator
Maintaining
For testing that it works - Guerrilla Usability
For making sure it works for everyone - Cynthia Says
For testing that it works for everyone - Roger Hudson's Web Usability (any and all of it)
For checking for broken links - Link Alarm
Talking to people
For asking questions: warning heavy load - Web Standards Group (WSG) mailing list
For keeping up to date - WSG Melbourne meetings
For a coffee and chat with Jonathan about this stuff - 04 2575 5829
Other stuff
For pulling in other content - The Joy of APIFor accessible ( ... )
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