2007 / February 6th/ Most amazing CSS tip you’ll ever read in your life
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February 6th | #
Spot on, as always.
February 7th | #
Thats what im doing, I suck at it though, but im trying my best to learn
February 7th | #
Hehe, excellent, well said!
February 7th | #
I was expecting something like, “pay Christian Montoya to write your CSS for you,” but that’s pretty good :)
February 7th | #
Great tips, LOL.
I am learning more and more on CSS when develop new customer site..
February 7th | #
Well, it’s true as it’s true for most of the rest in the world: “Learning by doing” and “practice makes the master”!!!
2 rules I always work for…
February 7th | #
Don’t forget to take a break when you can’t solve something, or at least work on something else. Got some tricky CSS working today in about 10 minutes, when I had spent hours on it a few days ago.
February 7th | #
Indeed, it’s an amazing tip! I’ll keep this in my mind.
February 7th | #
My problem is I build so many sites, I never actually “launch” one. Then a few months later I will have learned so many new tips and tricks that I look back at the previous design and nearly puke. So, I re-design the site again to meet my current needs and end up moving on to some other project before doing anything with it. The cycle repeats itself. It really sucks…
February 7th | #
Haha - brilliant!
February 7th | #
Applauded. Some spot on advice right there…
February 7th | #
It seems so true, and yet, very much like a rip off.
February 7th | #
Well put. Now back to watching John Allsopp and Dan Cederholm talk about microformats.
February 8th | #
That is what I tell most people too.
“How can I get a job designing?”
“How can I learn ___________?”
I reply:
“Practice - make up sites for fun and go at it.”
Good stuff.
February 9th | #
Great tip!
February 10th | #
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February 11th | #
Xactly. Keep on building and try to keep up with changes. There’s no time to pause. The world is moving too fast - the web is moving too fast.
February 11th | #
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Yeah Right Said. Right now i had read 2-3 books on CSS but whenever i tried to make from what i learnt i always stuck in the middle. CSS books only helps you teach Syntax and CSS rules ans some Best practices. You have to dig the Sample templates to see whats in the code and try to make your own. thats the right way - Find something dig it learn it customize it make your own.
February 13th | #
The only thing you need to know.
I’ve bettered myself, not by sitting reading books for 2 hours daily, but by sitting with those damn html and stylesheet files open!
February 14th | #
wow. amazing tip. this is exactly what I need. thanks.
February 20 | #
You want to know how to become a regular ninja?
Kick some ass.
February 25th | #
what is ninja. I’m a samurai
February 27th | #
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February 27th | #
Gosh, reading all your comments made me think about my first go at HTML + CSS, waaaaaaaaay back in the day. Nothing worked or looked right. Ever.
I would sit there, literally steaming, in incredible frustration and swear to find a new profession.
Walking away from “stump” (which is the term I gave to code that doesn’t work because of me) :) and getting your mind off of it really does work. Coming back with a fresh mind helps you to better focus on troubleshooting and before you know it… it’s working like a charm!
If you would have told me then, that I’d be able to brain-write numerous programming lanugages now… I would have called you a bit fat liar.
Never give up. Create whatever you can whenever you can… even if it never goes online - it’s the experience that teaches you and makes you better.
February 27th | #
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February 27th | #
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February 27th | #
Awesome advice. I would just settle for being css ninja-ish or even css ninja-movie-watcher.
February 28th | #
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February 28th | #
ah man why make it so hard LOL
February 28th | #
That’s it.
:-)
March 1st | #
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March 1st | #
Best advice I have found yet. Though I would add ‘educating yourself’ with books and updated information (to learn new methods and best practices), there is no substitute for actually DOING the work.
Now back to building more websites….
March 1st | #
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March 2nd | #
That’s what I’ve done…just keep building more and more and more, you learn so much just by building more.
March 3rd | #
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March 5th | #
The only real way I’ve found to improve my CSS ability. Glad someone else agrees!
March 7th | #
CSS is great. If you will have to design for two plattforms (ie and mozilla) live is quite hard.
March 15th | #
Brilliant.
March 16th | #
Ha, nice one.
March 17th | #
[...] web development. Its difficult, because its something that you can only get really good at by practicing, but I’m just not used to having so little free time. I’m currently reading [...]
May 4th | #
Keep building, you’ll learning something new with every site you develop.
Do something new each day… try sushi :-)
June 15th | #
Learning by doing!
July 19th | #
GbN93M I put together a show of about forty photographs at a frame shop. I invent a unique way of mounting the pictures, flush on aluminum with a spacing device to move the picture out from the wall. This way of framing has never been done before, at least in our area. (Now I see it all the time on styrafoam board.) The show is a wild success with about a hundred people at the opening including the former director of the Playhouse 90 series on TV (a teacher in my department) who loves my work and brings the Chairman of the Art Department with him.
June 26th | #
You got me!!! I was clicking everywhere fo the “article” but you’re right. I’ve done one and wasn’t too impressed but my client was (they are not too fussy).