Useful CSS HTML PHP Tutorials

[David]

I hadn't come across this site before but it has some very good tutorials for beginners. Covering HTML, CSS and PHP. Be aware that the HTML tutorials do not currently cover XHTML. Nonetheless, this is generally good stuff:

tizag.com (http://www.tizag.com/)

Don't forget that probably the best online tutorials for all this stuff remain:

w3schools.com (http://www.w3schools.com)

[francis]

I think I must be the only person ever not to like the W3Schools stuff. I can't stand the fact that the information you're trying to learn is presented in such a small area in comparison to the advertising. I realise that they need income, but the amount of screen space taken up by what I'm actually there to read in comparison to everything else is, frankly, not good. And I've never found the content much cop either. But there you go. Have a look at these:

CSSVault (http://cssvault.com/) - some lovely examples of CSS work (for instance Percept (http://percept.be/). Up there with Cool Home Pages for inspiration?

Also How To Write Efficient CSS (http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/efficientcss.html) a nice, neat tutorial.

[David]

I agree to some extent but the site is a very good one-stop for anyone needing tutorials on any client-side coding, not just CSS.

I just took their CSS Quiz (http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_quiz.asp) and have to admit to you that I only scored 15 out of 20 :"> Apparently I need to study some more!

[francis]

Ooh, 20 out of 20!

I wasn't saying that those links were better than W3Schools - I'd just stumbled across them about 20 minutes earlier and thought I'd bung 'em in. I'm off to peak at source code...

[James]

I got 16/20 - shame they don't show you the correct answers at the end.

[francis]

There's a link to "check your answers" on the last page, although that only tells ou which answers you got wrong and the answer you gave. But I guess that's where the "schools" part of W3Schools comes in - the learning part! They do have a CSS2 reference (http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp) on the site that may help give quick answers to the ones you got wrong.

[francis]

Ask MetaFilter (http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/13772) thread on CSS - loads of links to some very useful resources