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The CSS Zen Garden : A great place to start and end your journey of content/presentation sepraation enlighthenment. It's a great place to see how CSS can make one page look many different ways without ever changing the HTML. Once you understand the basics of CSS it's a good place to pick up tricks and see a box model in use. The link section isn't all that useful in my opinion.

Floatutorial : The #1 easiest way to learn the CSS Box model I have seen. Listutorial and Selectutotial are also great step by step walk thoughts of practical application of CSS.

CSS Panic : A resource for links you might want to check out.

SELFHTML & HTMLDOG: Lessons in CSS.

Positioning is Everything : Excellent source for information on the various bugs associated with CSS in browsers.

CSS Crib Sheet & Rich In Style : Great trouble shooting resources.

W3C CSS Page : The Official Specs.

HTML/XHTML/XML

PHP/*AMP/Dynamic Environments

 

 

 

 

 

The links on this page are great starting places to learn more about web development. In general they are based at least in part with principles that are compatible with my basic design philosophy.

Design should be a process of creation and destruction. Start with unconstrained creativity. Get all the ideas out. Then, use properly established contraints to select the best ideas. Try to evolve the ideas that work. Fill in gaps in the overall design and weed out the unnecessary. Only the best should survive.

What should be left is a simple, elegant solution with few if any quirks. If that is not the case begin the process again or refactor as time allows.