Design Simply

CSS is a pretty completely awesome tool, and I love it. I had the chance to talk about CSS at WordCamp Birmingham on Saturday, and here are the things I covered:

• the very basic things you need to know to get started with CSS,
• browsers and browser developer tools,
• adventures in color palettes,
• how to add CSS to WordPress themes,
• and showcase examples of what I like to think of as the Cracker Jack surprise inside every website.

Here is a list of links used in the presentation:

• http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_wars.html
• http://hicksdesign.co.uk/boxmodel/
• http://redmelon.net/tstme/box_model/
• http://nicolasgallagher.com/multiple-backgrounds-and-borders-with-css2/
• http://nicolasgallagher.com/multiple-backgrounds-and-borders-with-css2/demo/backgrounds.html
• http://www.colorspire.com/
• http://colorschemedesigner.com/
• http://colourlovers.com/
• http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-2544233-fairy-forest-ii.php?st=0b0d9c9
• http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
• http://color.aurlien.net/
• http://www.thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/responsiveillustration/
• http://colly.com/
• http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• http://shoze.blogspot.com/2011/06/brorwser-wars.html
• http://caniuse.com/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/safecss/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-child-theme/
• http://daneden.me/animate/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/css-tricks
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/the-planetarium
• http://animatable.com/demos/madmanimation/