This tutorial teaches CSS using both hand-coding and Style Master for Windows. You can also follow it using instructions for Style Master for Mac OS X. By working through the exercises you will learn all about CSS for text styling and page appearance including layout, and create a stylish looking page like this. If you want to learn CSS by hand-coding alone, simply work through all the exercises and code examples and skip all the specially styled Style Master instructions.
Style Master is a CSS editor which includes full support for hand-coding. It's a great way to start learning CSS: hand code when it suits, and fall back on the WYSIWYG editors when you're working with new properties and selectors. This tutorial is included as part of the 30 day demo download.