CSS: The Definitive Guide

I am a huge fan of using CSS and style sheets to control the appearance of your web site. Just the fact that you can maintain it one file for the whole web site is reason enough to use it. Not to mention, if you want to have large amounts of traffic you need to keep SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in mind. CSS will allow you to render the markup in such a way to search engines can index it easier but at the same time give it a nice appearance for your users. This is the only book I've purchased on the subject and it has been worth every penny!

Like many of you I learned how to use tables first to control the layout of my pages. It was a bit of a paradigm shift for me to switch over to CSS but well worth it. If you're at that point where you're wondering if you should make the shift, I recommend practicing and having patience with yourself. If you're like me once things start clicking you'll never understand how you developed web sites without it in the first place!