I made sure I read all the threads before I wrote this question because I didn’t want to repeat any previous questions. I’m in the beginning phase of my website design and I’ve just completed my HTML refresher at w3schools.com. The one thing that I didn’t know about was CSS. When I was in school we kinda just assumed that anything we didn’t understand would be taken care of by the program like Dreamweaver for example. (We were lazy kids ) That was a long time ago when I wasn’t really serious about understanding the fine details that go into web design.

I’m well aware of the fact that this stuff isn’t learned overnight and I’ve already picked up some books to help with me get familiarized with Dreamweaver “again” and I plan on going back to w3schools.com to continue the process of understanding CSS BUT I have a question.

From what I read in previous threads, a lot of people

1. Learned CSS from a template (and practice)
2. Just use templates without learning CSS
3. Rely on WYSIWYG
4. Just stick to HTML
5. Anything else i haven't mentioned

My question is basically (I’m babbling again) … well I guess it’s more of a scenario. I’d like to learn CSS because I feel that is going to be very useful. But does learning CSS from a template accelerate the learning process? I’m thinking that whenever I do get around to starting that I might look for a CSS based template and then learn from it and either create my own website from scratch or continue using the template if I learn how to manipulate it


I’m very interested in what you guys think