CSS is my new friend

It's been a long, long time since I've done any Web development. That's a generous term, Web Development. I wrote a few personal web pages with some PHP and MySQL programming. Sounds impressive, right? I'm an amateur all the way, I just convinced people who knew less than I did that I knew what I was doing.

Now I'm co-host of a podcast, Too Old to Grow Up! We've been doing it for about 5 months now. It's been a good time, people are listening, and they seem to like us. Our basic web presence is pretty bland, though. It's a simple Google Apps hosted site, Libsyn does most of the heavy lifting as far as hosting the show goes. Add to that new artwork from our friend Harold Jennett, the time is right for a change.

As cold as my PHP and HTML skills are, I never, ever touched CSS, Cascading Style Sheets. A few years ago CSS became the standard way to format your web pages. Much more flexible than HTML by itself. If I could learn CSS then our new home page could be the destination site I've dreamed it could be. Plus, I want to start cataloging our shows while we only have a few, so if we ever do outgrow Libsyn I'll already have the indexed database ready to go and portable.

So I got my hands on some tutorials (thanks Spano) and I'm on my way. I installed a text editor that color codes syntax, making it easier to read the code.

…Chapter One…Introduction to CSS…