Originally Posted by James

It depends more on how you learn than what we recommend.

Lisa usually recommends learning from templates. That's a good way to learn and a similar approach is to look at a lot of them on line. I often right click and choose "view source" on a site, then look for the name of their css stylesheet and enter it into my browser. You can see just how they do their work if they use mostly html and css. Of course, if they use a lot of php or something you can't get as much.

Personally, I would prefer at least starting with the w3schools css tutor, or the htmldog tutor on css to get a more organized presentation. Going step by step through the basic process in an orderly way is much easier for me. Also, these two sites tell you how to do it right and the problem with templates and sites is that most of them are not compliant with web standards and you can learn a lot of stuff that is really not good to be doing.