CSS wysiwyg editors?

[Kimberlh]

Hello,

I know html very well only because I had to learn it back before wysiwyg editors and you had to write html on a notepad to make a web site .. Yes, the good old easy days to make a web site. Back in the good old days when frames and copy and paste javacript where exciting new tools! :p lol lol lol !!

I have found a CMS I like very well and I want to stay with it on all my new web sites however it is CSS driven so I am trying to learn CSS and I am not doing very well.

Before I go book hunting, (I hate reading online, I prefer books) -

Is there such a thing as a easy to use CSS wysiwyg editors? I can use to edit the premade CSS sheets? I mostly just want to be able to change colors without hunting down coloring numbers, then finding what the number color is and replacing each number by hand on a note pad.

If I have to, I will learn CSS however I would rather find an easy way to edit CSS pre-made CSS sheet that comes with the CMS I buy.

Thanks
Kimberly

[Jick]

Well, as for WYSIWYG editors, I wouldn't recommend them. The best way to learn is by hand-coding it all yourself. But, if you insist on using a WYSIWYG editor, I've heard many people praise Dreamweaver (http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/) for standards-compliant output. Can't really speak from experience. I've always just hand-coded everything myself.

As for books, I can't really suggest any from experience. I never had the money for books so I did all my learning the trial-and-error way. Granted, most people probably don't like that idea. It worked for me though. :D

Hope that helps. :)

[Centauri]

Probably one of the best css books out there now would be the recently released Ultimate Css Reference (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssref1/?SID=7e901ee939e7d9c8320c2707d6afcff6) by gurus Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien.

Learning css should be a priority so that you understand the full effect and implications associated with each css property. That being said, I do use Dreamweaver mainly for its easy to use css panel - the point-click-enter value panel makes trying different styles very quick and easy without a lot of typing and remembering properties that you may not use often. It also produces well formatted css that is easy to debug. Whether the price of Dreamweaver is worth it to you for this feature, only you can decide. For what is worth, I am not overly impressed with the latest version of Dreamweaver as its css panel now includes all the browser-specific properties which clutters up the panel (and these properties should be avoided anyway), and there does not seem to be a way of turning them off - I still use Dreamweaver 8 and feel no need to upgrade yet.

[pathfinder74]

[QUOTE=Centauri]Probably one of the best css books out there now would be the recently released Ultimate Css Reference (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssref1/?SID=7e901ee939e7d9c8320c2707d6afcff6) by gurus Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien.
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How are the pictures? I'm dumb when it comes to a book that's filled with words... I need a lot of visual references.

Is that one of the places you learned the float/padding thing you showed me?
I'll totally buy it on your recommendation

[LeeU]

You want pictures? This one (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csstmm/index.html) is great!

[ray326]

The Wyke-Smith book has lots of color images.