Welcome to the House of Style

The House of Style is our comprehensive resources for web developers who want to work with Cascading Style Sheets. Whether you are a beginner with no CSS experience, who wants to learn how, or even an expert who wants to deepen your knowledge, you'll find resources here to help you.

New this week: we've got a brand new recipe in our cookbook this week, showing you how to create buttons without Javascript. Just pure cholestrol free HTML 4.0 and CSS. Enjoy!

Style Master and Layout Master

All these resources are brought to you by Style Master, and Layout Master, software solutions for CSS.

Style Master is our CSS editor for Macintosh and Windows. The all new Style Master 2.1 brings the ease of use of a WYSWYG editor and now, the power and flexibility of hand-coding, to the CSS standard. The download includes a hands-on CSS tutorial, and built in style sheets and compatibility information. Download it now, for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and the MacOS.

Layout Master is a WYSIWYG environment for developing web page layouts with the CSS positioning properties. Currently Layout Master is available for the MacOS, and at the beta testing stage for Windows.

CSS Guide

The heart of the House of Style, "Everything you ever wanted to know about style" has got it all. The why, the how and the what. Find out why people call it "wonderful".

This most recent third edition of the Guide includes all of CSS2 as well as CSS1.

Tutorials

Like to learn by getting your hands dirty? This 10 lesson tutorial covers all the most important features of style sheets as you develop a core style sheet for your web sites. Download it as part of Style Master.

Learn all about page layout with style sheets from our quick and easy CSSP Tutorial.

Free Courses

We make our Self-paced Courses available for free as well as for purchase. Over the next couple of months, in weekly installments you'll find our course Color and Graphics for the Web. If you can find time to come back to our site once a week you'll learn all there is to know about the use of the color, the important graphics technologies and associated accessibility issues.

CSS Cookbook

Cook up a CSS storm with these fast and easy recipes for people who don't want to hear about the details.

New! Our new recipe for buttons using standards-based HTML 4.0 and CSS only is sure to be a family favourite.

Books

Reviews of some of the valuable books available for learning about cascading style sheets.

Browser Compatibility

Our comprehensive browser compatibility guide, covering all major versions of Internet Explorer (including 6.0 Windows and 5.0 Macintosh) and Netscape Navigator (including version 6.0) on both Windows and the Macintosh. Also, Opera for Windows and Macintosh.

The Good Oil

Our CSS expert parts with some advice...

• Sure, browser support can be patchy, but developers have to rethink their relationship with their pages. Read my take on all that.
• Unfortunately, much of the cause of failed style sheets is invalid HTML and incorrect CSS. Here is the low down on validation: how to make sure your HTML and CSS are perfecto.
• Coming to terms with browser compatibility and Making Style Sheets Really Work.
• Designing Adaptive Web Pages using CSS.

CSS Gallery

Don't just take our word for it. There are lots of examples of CSS in action out there. Take a look at the CSS Gallery to see what other real live people are doing with their real live style sheets.

Specification

We've taken the CSS1 recommendation from W3C, and made it easier to read, navigate and understand.

Links

A list of the best resources we know of for learning about and developing with style sheets. Know about something worth adding? We're happy to hear from you.

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