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Web development book including secure sites

CSS books are a dime a dozen, or just visit any of the CSS websites. The easiest way to learn for me, has been just to dig right in. If the WYSIWYG editors had full control over the CSS, it may be easier to just recode the pages. I inherited a site once that had been managed by Frontpage and Dreamweaver and that was what I ended up having to do.

You say that you can write HTML, but sound like you don't have much experience with stylesheets. I'm going to bet you use tables for all your layouts? You have to get away from that mindset if so.

As for security, I won't get into that has I don't do PHP and Apache, but there are many different ways of doing it so you may have to talk specifics as to what you already have and what you need.

Thanks ... Tables? Nope ... horrible way to lay out a site. Anything I've done in the past relies on the KISS principle Frames at best. Tables are for true tables

That's one of the fun parts of this site ... it's such a hodge podge ... style sheets, tables, frames, cgi scripts ... it's ALL there. The goal is to fix the bugs that were created as a result of moving to a new host (the old host was a similar dogs dinner of installation issues as the site itself!) so it can limp along while we build a new site to replace it ... one that's straightforward and will work wherever it's ported in the future!

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Most books are already out of date. You might want to look at w3schools.com to get see if it can get you up to speed quicker but it might be too fast. Some will diss w3schools due to a site called w3fools which points to significant errors but a lot of that has been cleaned up recently. Just remember w3schools is in no way affiliated with the w3c.

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I suppose you'd call them basic ... yes ... but effective and the people they were done for were more than pleased. As I said, I believe in the KISS (Keep It Simple S...) principle

Yes, dangerous curves indeed ... it needs some warped thinking ... like a Fortran programmer trying to use COBOL! Or going from C with terminal I/O to Visual C++!

That's why a book for dummies (or is that for albatrosses) is needed!

Thanks for the warning

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I learned web design using tables, frames, etc back in high school. Oh man, once you learn CSS, you'll see how obtuse it is to design a site that way.

There are a ton of design websites that have great tutorials on web design. For CSS, I have this one bookmarked: »spyrestudios.com/css-in-depth-ma···x-model/ (Part 1 of 4. It should have a link to the other parts)

As far as books go, I can't recommend any. There's enough solid information online that you shouldn't have to buy a book, unless that's the way you like to learn of course.

Some other good resources on Web Design and CSS:
- webdesign.tutsplus.com
- net.tutsplus.com (more developer oriented)
- line25.com (has some great walk-throughs of start to finish sites)
- »www.stumbleupon.com/su/2AUpjs/le···eet.html

Let me encourage you to get caught up on these new technologies. Learn HTML5 and CSS. Since you're already having to make the jump, might as well learn the latest.
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Thank you

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I really have a distaste for laying out a website using tables since it really is a case of making a hammer work as a screwdriver

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