Blog customization: DIY or Hire and What to Expect
Your presenters
Mir Verburg
Tiffany Brown
Slides from the presentation
View
(Requires
Opera
if you wish to view the slides as a show rather than as a single HTML page)
Download
(ZIP file)
Mir’s annotated slides
Download blog themes
WordPress Themes
Movalog’s Style Generator
for Movable Type
Movable Type Style Library
Blogger Templates
BlogSkins.com
(Movable Type, Xanga and Blogger)
Web sites where you can learn more
My Top 12 CSS Articles/Tricks of 2005
CSS Techniques Roundup - 20 CSS Tips and Tricks
Top 10 CSS Tutorials
CSS shorthand Guide
CSS2 Reference
CSS Cheatsheet
Nerdier CSS and HTML resources
World Wide Web Consortium CSS 2.1 Specification
World Wide Web Consortium HTML documents
Understanding CSS and Methods for Hack Management
CSS Insider
Books if you want to become a CSS whiz
Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide
Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
HTML / CSS text editors
Aptana
(Open Source community edition: FREE, Pro edition: $99; Mac / Win / Linux; requires Java)
jEdit
(Open Source; Mac / Win / Linux; requires Java)
TextWrangler
(Free, Mac only)
BBEdit
($199, Mac only)
Dreamweaver
($399; Mac, Win)
TextMate
(€39; Mac only)
HTML Kit
(Free; Win only)
Programmer’s Notepad
(Open Source; Win only)
SubEthaEdit
($35; Mac only)
NoteTab
($4.95 - $29.95; Win only)
TopStyle
($79.95;Win only)
