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Beginners guide to CSS

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Are you interested in learning CSS, but everything seems so complicated, and you don't know where to start? If this sounds like you then the guys and girls at Westciv have just restarted their free online CSS course. This starts at an absolute beginners level, so it should be suitable for anyone with an interest in learning standards based web design. The course runs every Monday for twelve weeks, and should take around ten minutes each lesson to complete. If you enjoy their free courses and want to take it further, they have a range of courses for purchase at a very reasonable price.

John and Maxine from Westciv also run the annual Web directions South conference in Sydney. I should be attending for the first time this year, and if it is anything like the fantastic Web Directions North, which they organised with the help of Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone, I can highly recommend it. WDN had an incredibly fun two days of Skiing after the event, so I wonder if surf's up for the Australian event?

While I'm promoting the good work Westciv are doing, I should hi-light their CSS editor, Style Master. This is a tool written by people that have been promoting web standards for a long time, so you know it isn't going to produce junk. I'd recommend anyone to try out the 30 day trial and see what you think.

Off to Web Directions North Tomorrow

Soon I'll be off to the airport for that long hop across the pond to visit our Canadian friends at Web Directions North. I'll be bringing a few cards with free Opera Mobile licences, so if anyone is going to the conference don't forget to say hi and pick up a card. The licence should work on Symbian and Windows based mobiles, but if your phone isn't suitable don't fret. The card has details on how to get the free Opera Mini on the reverse. Opera Mini works on most phones that include Java.

I'm really looking forward to seeing a lot of the talks, and taking part in the various activities. It is only a shame that there are two streams so that we'll have to miss some great talks. I hope there are videos afterwards so we can catch up on what we miss. As I mentioned in my last post about WDN, if any of you have any issues with Opera, feel free to make them known. I'll make a note of them and get back to you with a solution.

It'll be my first time in Canada, so I'm hoping it is as fun as it looks. At least I won't mix up any Canadian accents for American :wink: