Learning with Video is the Way...

...For me at least.

Last week at work some co-workers made a little video one-minute video about the library to put on our website as an introduction for new employees of the organization. Later, I learned in a staff meeting that the video had been posted on YouTube and then embedded into the webpage because the web guy didn't know Flash and hadn't been able to figure out how to build a video player to be hosted on our own server. After the meeting, I found a two video tutorials (video 1, video 2) on Adobe.com that explained how to do this and sent the links to the web guy.

This weekend, I watched the tutorials, and then built myself a Flash player using Dreamweaver. It took about two and a half hours from start to finish, including the video encoding time, and wasn't hard at all.

Inspired by all of this free, online video learning, I also watched a tutorial of how to use the Bridge (I guess I can cross one thing off the list already). Even though the software is really basic, its made it much easier to manage all of the images that we have on our site.

I want to take my html/css knowledge up a few notches, from intermediate to a rock-solid dependable skill set, and I need to figure out what my next learning resource will be to achieve css mastery. I don't want to only half-learn it before I move on to Database Management and CS50. I've looked at a bunch of books on Amazon (if you know my name you can check out my wishlist) but I can't decide what what to get. I wish Head First had an advanced book, but that would go against the point of the series.

Any suggestions?