Cascading Style Sheets Resource page

Useful

• CSS Mill by Patrick Corcoran is a visual tool for generating CSS styled HTML.
• Lewis Gartenberg has released a shareware tool, W3CSS, which converts MS Word documents in to HTML and CSS.
• EDF has released CSSize, a tool which helps you convert HTML documents into HTML+CSS documents.
• Hexmac has released HexWeb CSS Edit as a plugin for BBEDit or as a stand-alone Macintosh version.
• Coffeecup Software's StyleSheet Maker++ is a dedicated application for creating CSS style sheets.
• HTML Writer's Guild has published a CSS FAQ.
• Macromedia has released a preview release of DreamWeaver, an HTML authoring tool with rich support for CSS.

Reading

Books

• Cascading Style Sheets - designing for the Web is written by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos and published by Addison-Wesley. The book has entered Jacob Nielsen's highly selective list of recommended books and is also reviewed by Alan Richmond.

Web resources on CSS

• c|net offers an introduction to CSS, including CSS Positioning and the Style-o-Mattic
• HotWired's WebMonkey has published a series of article on style sheets.
• Toby, Jan, Susan and Sue has collected an impressive list of CSS resources.
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library has published a brief tutorial on CSS.
• Webreview tells you how to write your first style sheet.
• HTML Writer's Guild has published a CSS FAQ.
• c|net tells you how to get started with CSS. If you have a 4th generation browser, you can try the Style-o-Matic
• The Web Design Group has authored a comprehensive guide to CSS. Find out how style sheets can be abused
• HTML Writer's Guild has published a CSS FAQ.
• Jacob Nielsen has published a guide for Effective Use of Style Sheets
• Urban Fredriksson has written a Short Guide to CSS
• An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets by Norman Walsh, published in the World Wide Web Journal. This article can also be found in WebReview
• Web Review has published a CSS tutorial written by Norman Walsh.
• WebSmith Feature: Styling the Web

Browser downloads

Older commercial browsers with support for CSS:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
• Netscape Navigator 4.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
• Silicon Graphics has an embeddable CSS-enhanced web browser that are used in a number of applications and their desktop

Non-commercial browsers with support for CSS:

• Arena, previously W3C's testbed browser, is now being developed by Yggdrasil. It has a partial implementation of CSS1 and continues to be a very useful tool for experimenting with style sheets.
• Emacs-w3, a.k.a. Gnuscape Navigator, is on the leading edge of CSS support.
• Amaya is W3C's Web client that acts is both a browser and as an authoring tool. It has partial support for CSS1.

Comments on Browser behaviour with CSS

• WebReview's The Browser Compatibility Chart is a thorough review of how the implementations match the specification.
• Braden N. McDaniel has documented MS IE3 for Windows95/NT
• Eric A. Meyer has documented MS IE3 for Macintosh

CSS Authoring Tools

Most of the current generation Web Authoring tools provide some sort of support for CSS style sheets. The list below has links to tools that support CSS.

• Lewis Gartenberg has released a shareware tool, W3CSS which converts MS Word documents in to HTML and CSS.
• EDF has released CSSize, a tool which helps you convert HTML documents into HTML+CSS documents.
• Hexmac has released HexWeb CSS Edit as a plugin for BBEDit or as a stand-alone Macintosh version.
• CSS mode for Alpha, a Mac programming editor, is available.
• Coffeecup Software's StyleSheet Maker++ is a dedicated application for creating CSS style sheets.
• mBED's Interactor 1.1 supports CSS Positioning which, when combined with a scriping language, allows you to create HTML-based animations.
• Danere has released a new version of StyleMaker which supports CSS Positioning through a drag-and-drop interface.
• The beta version of Symposia doc+ 3.0 from Grif provides comprehensive support and WYSIWYG presentation of CSS style sheets
• The forthcoming HoTMetaL Pro from SoftQuad was reported by ZDNet to have "the best CSS implementaion we've seen".
• Optima System's PageSpinner is a shareware HTML editor for MacOS with support for CSS.
• Microsoft's beta version of FrontPage98 has some support for CSS.
• Sheet Stylist is an application (actually an ActiveX control) for Windows 95 that allows you to create, edit and maintain CSS styles sheets.
• Astrobyte has announced BeyondPress 3.0 which will convert QuarkXPress documents into HTML and CSS.
• StyleMaker is a visual design tool for creating CSS1 Style Sheets.
• The Interaction dynamic site management system includes a comprehensive Macintosh CSS editor.
• Sausage Software's HotDog editor now supports CSS.
• Allaire's HomeSite editor (v. 2.5 and above) now supports CSS.
• Harlequin has announced support for CSS in their Webmaker Frame-to-HTML application.
• SoftQuad's HoTMetaL Intranet Publisher (H.i.P.) supports CSS. And CSS supports H.i.P's Personal Views
• JoyHTML is a shareware Swedish HTML editor that supports CSS. It's not WYSIWYG, but rather source-code oriented. Nice if you would like to see the code without remebering the full CSS1 syntax. And you learn some Swedish as well (Download jh97sv.exe)
• DeltaPoint QuickSite 2.0 now supports CSS.
• Adobe FrameMaker can now export HTML+CSS with HoTaMaLe.

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