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by: David McFarland
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780596526870
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596526873
Label: Pogue Press
Manufacturer: Pogue Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 494
Publication Date: August 24, 2006
Publisher: Pogue Press
Sales Rank: 4751
Studio: Pogue Press
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Product Description:
Web site design has grown up. Unlike the old days, when designers cobbled together chunky HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a prayer to make their sites look good, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) now lets your inner designer come out and play. But CSS isn't just a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling all kinds of presentation--from fonts and colors to page layout. 'CSS: The Missing Manual' clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.
Like their counterparts in print page-layout programs, style sheets allow designers to apply typographic styles, graphic enhancements, and precise layout instructions to elements on a Web page. Unfortunately, due to CSS's complexity and the many challenges of building pages that work in all Web browsers, most Web authors treat CSS as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites. Integrating CSS with a site's underlying HTML is hard work, and often frustratingly complicated. As a result many of the most powerful features of CSS are left untapped. With this book, beginners and Web-building veterans alike can learn how to navigate the ins-and-outs of CSS and take complete control over their Web pages' appearance.
Author David McFarland (the bestselling author of O'Reilly's 'Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual') combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. You'll learn how to: Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables Style Web pages for printing
Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn't assume that everyone in the world only surfs the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer; our book provides support for all major Web browsers and is one of the first books to thoroughly document the newly expanded CSS support in IE7, currently in beta release.
Want to learn how to turn humdrum Web sites into destinations that will capture viewers and keep them longer? Pick up 'CSS: The Missing Manual' and learn the real magic of this tool.
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Rating:  - Very Good Book for Learning CSS
I found this book to be very good. I usually have a hard time reading an entire book on technical subjects like this, but this one kept my interest. The tutorials are very good and give real world examples. I highly recommend downloading and completing the tutorials. Many times I found myself saying, aha, so that how you do that. I went from practically no knowledge of css to being able to create css based web designs like a pro. Highly recommended.
Rating: - Great in depth introduction
I found this book very helpful. I'm just starting out designing and building web sites, using CSS and Dreamweaver, and this book has been a great help to me.
Rating:  - Great book, but...
First off, I give this book a three, not because I don't think it's worth reading, but because I think there's a big missing part. I'm nearly finished reading it and working through the tutorials. Like everyone else has said, the book is very easy to read and pretty easy to follow. But in order to help readers better understand the skills and concepts, I think the author needs to challenge readers to apply what they learn in sort of workbook format. In completing the tutorials, you're presented with ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent book, easy to follow tutorials
This is an extremely well-written book that teaches sometimes complex techniques in a way that is easy to follow and understand. What's more, the tutorials actually work the way they're supposed to, without bugs, so you actually get a good learning experience by doing them. I've recommended this book to a number of people, the one person who bought it is going through the book now and loves it.
Rating: - Best CSS Book
I've read a few CSS books in the past and haven't been pleased at all. When I tried some of the examples in those books, it hardly ever worked like the book said it would. Most of this was caused by browser incompatibility. Now this book, explains the way things should work and then tells you how to get around some of the browser incompatibilities. And it explains it in plain English. I've been a web developer for 13 years, so some of the things are elementary to me, but it still was worth reading for ... Read More
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