Quote Originally Posted by ladysaat

Yeah that book got RETURNED. Honestly, the reason I was hoping to really get to know CSS and stuff was because I am totally lost. Most of the suggestions and post don't make a whit of sense. I thought maybe if I started with the bare bones of it I could figure out what everything meant. I want to be sure of myself with this and what I'm doing you know.
As someone who finds myself in the same place as you (more or less), I totally feel your pain. :-) Especially since most books on CSS, HTML, PHP and MySQL seem to start out with about 200 pages of expressions, entities, rules & other rote memorization that they somehow expect you to READ through (much less LEARN) before they get to any application of said rote memorization...

It's made me realize what a learn-by-doing person I am. (Which is tough when you're staring at the Zen Cart index.php file, trying to figure out how the template relates to the whole thing and if you can get it to display x & y but not z). Ugh.

Anyway, if you're still wanting to get down the basics of CSS, check out 'Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML' - it's a book that seems like it's written more for the right-brain thinker than for the programming-types. I found it SO useful in getting to know my way around CSS. (I can read it and code in it fairly well now...the book taught me the difference between a 'div' and a 'span' when I picked it up earlier this year).

At the very least, it makes it much easier to understand what's being said when you're reading the forums, looking for answers.

Speaking of which...I'm about to go back to scouring the forums, seeing what sort of info I can glean...hopefully one day I'll know enough to write the manual dealing with the "behind the scenes" aspects of customizing Zen Cart to look the way you want it to.

:-)

Good luck!