By reading this compiled resource, I assume that you’ve known how to generate/make web contents - be it a blog on Wordpress or Blogspot, or any websites at all, as long as it has content in HTML or XHTML-type documents. Some might think that learning CSS alone will give them power to create beautiful websites. In fact, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is only a simple mechanism for us to add styles to Web documents. It is merely something applied to beautify your web pages. Without learning how to create the web document (content) first, there’s nothing for you to beautify. Simple as that

To start off, any beginners who’re seriously interested in CSS should start with CSS lessons at w3Schools. After all, a good foundation will help you go a long way!

After you’ve mastered the basics, you could now start sketching your layout. Decide which type of layout you wanna develop your blog/website into. 2 columns, 3 columns (as 5xmom likes it best), with or without header and footer, fluid or static, etc. Try these repository of ready-made CSS layouts. (codes included!)

- CSS Layouts at Glish
- Bluerobot CSS Layouts
- CSS Pages Layouts at Max Design
- A step-by-step chronology of creating a CSS layout.
- CSS layout creator - It creates layout for you in a few clicks of options.

Reason why I suggest you guys of using these layout resources is that it saves you time and you can start on its content right-away. Unless you’re creating a website that is really out-of-the-ordinary unique, or you’ve some really fresh new layout idea of your own, most of the websites out there today would just stick to the standard 2 or 3 columns layout.

At this point, you could jump straight CSS tricks and magics. Pixel2Life CSS tutorials has tons of tips and tricks on CSS, with easy-to-follow tutorials for you to learn how to create those wonderful CSS-based designs. You could make use of Max Design’s tutorials to make yourself some CSS-based lists, floating images, and selectors.

That should be enough to help you with your CSS adventure.

I’ve also found a couple of nice resources compiled for you guys at websitetips.com and w3.org. They have everything from head to toe of what you need to know about CSS.

Update: Tomas de Aquino (333), Wuching (345), and Che-Cheh (350) has got themselves an invite each for getting the closest result.

The answer is 287. Thanks for participating! Cheers!

MSN Live Messenger invitations are like rare commodities nowadays and everyone’s seems to be hunting for it. Well, I’ve got only 3 left in my pocket and I’m gonna give them away.

Guess the Number and Win an Invitation

To be fair, I won’t be giving this away free based on the first-come-first-served basis. In fact, I’m gonna let you guys guess the amount for “number of visits” on my websites for today (14th of January, 2005)

Here’s a list of statistics for your reference.

Who ever gets the closest number, wins. Get your calculator and shoot now!

Do you have paraskavedekatriaphobia? or paraskevidekatriaphobia? or friggatriskaidekaphobia? Well, to me, Friday the 13th is just another day of the year, and it usually passes without any real signifiance to me. But this particular DVD movie we rented from Blockbuster changes that fact.

When we rented the movie, we didn’t realize that today would be the 13th, and we didn’t purposely rented it nor plan to watch this today. It just happened that our random picking of the movies landed us this. How bizzare.

Anyway, the movie is quite old - it was produced back in 1985, and the storyline is so predictable and the sound effects are boring. Well, I didn’t expect much from a film produced when I was a 1 year old toddler.

BBC’s Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson bought a £4842 Perodua Kelisa for the show; topped with only one day insurance, let’s see what he did to the brand new car.