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Free style sheet tutorials

XML School
This is a comprehensive introduction to the basic issues of style sheets. The tutorials deal with a single issue on each page, and the site includes interactive examples, a quiz test, plus book reviews. It's also a model of site design for clarity and usability.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/

Webmonkey
Everything you need to know about style sheet basics, written by Steve Mulder for Webmonkey.
http://webmonkey.com/authoring/stylesheets

www.w3.org
A collection of resources and technical specifications from the World Wide Web Consortium.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Cascading Style Sheets - Click to order from Amazon.co.uk Eric A. Meyer, Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2000, pp.453, ISBN 1565926226
Comprehensive manual which shows what can be done with fonts, colour, the appearance of text, and layers. CSS gets you ready for the move from HTML to extensible markup language (XML). Three appendices - a list of resources, list of CSS1 properties, sample style sheet, and a list of browser support. Review HERE

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Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS
A thorough explanation of style sheet basics - written by somebody who is a member of the W3 organisation which defines style sheet protocols. The tutorial includes useful tips on browser-safe colours.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style

Eric Meyer - 'How to write your first style sheet'
This is a short and simple tutorial which takes a single page of writing and shows how a style sheet is created to control the appearance of the text.
http://www.webreview.com/style/1997/

Jacob Nielsen's 'Effective Use of Style Sheets'
This article is now a little dated - but Nielsen is always worth reading. His emphasis here is on the advantages of style sheets, and how to avoid the most common mistakes.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9707a.html

Working with XML
This is the official Sun Microsystems guide to using XML with Java - a three-part downloadable tutorial.
http://java.sun.com/xml/docs/tutorial/index.htm

XML Tutorial
Microsoft's ten-part lessons on the subject range from an introduction to advanced topics.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/tutorial/default.asp

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