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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9781590596142
ISBN: 1590596145
Label: friends of ED
Manufacturer: friends of ED
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: February 13, 2006
Publisher: friends of ED
Studio: friends of ED
Features:- ISBN13: 9781590596142
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Over the past couple of years, web designers and developers have begun taking more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability problems and are just bad practice. There are three main web standards married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs - XHTML for data structure, JavaScript for dynamic effects, and Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data.
Working as a companion to our Web Standards Solutions book, this title covers advanced Cascading Style Sheet techniques, and includes are all the techniques you need to master CSS and craft modern, standards-compliant web page designs. You'll already know why you should be using CSS, so we dont bore you with pages of theory; instead, we jump straight into practical solutions, allowing you to get what you need as quickly as possible.
Renowned web designer Andy Budd starts off by introducing the elements of an effective CSS toolkit, including good working practices, the cascade, the box model, relative and absolute positioning, floating, and more. He then delves into advanced techniques like replacing images, styling links and lists, creating navigation menus, making forms look good, debugging and overcoming browser quirks, and hacking and filtering. The book is rounded off with two case studies to give you inspiration for your own designs, written by two more of the worlds finest web designers, Simon Collinson and Cameron Moll.
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This is a good book. It gives some good tips about building a website. The layouts on chapter eight are very useful. However, not all the example files are found in their server. Over all, this is a good book.
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Do you like someone trying to teach you something and at the end of teaching you something give you a bunch of exceptions to what they just taught you? Then this is the book for you!
Most of this book shows you CSS3 techniques, which of course aren't always supported. So what's the point if you can't use them? Oh, I know, "so you know techniques for the future" and "every browser can show a design slightly differently." Blah blah blah. I know IE6 is a pain, but as the book acknowledges, it's ... Read More
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This is an excellent book for those learning CSS who want to get up to speed quickly without having to hunt down answers all over the interwebs, and is useful for experienced developers as well. The majority of the book can serve as an introduction and reference, while the last two chapters (each a case study) reinforce the introduced concepts and serve up some inspiration.
However, as another reviewer pointed out, the book is full of errors in the code snippets that are quite glaring ... Read More
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The authors of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions have put together a book that teaches how CSS works and how to that applies to the modern web browsers in and easy-to-follow format. The book is broken into sections covering various areas of page layout as well as tips on how to work around different browser's implementations of CSS. The book also includes case studies that take readers though designing complete web site layouts as well as a solid foundation in the often-forgotten basics ... Read More
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I'm an advanced CSS web designer, so I purchased this book as more of a reference, along with some new css3 ideas. At first, the book didn't impress me. But the more I dug into the book the more I enjoyed it. There are some nice topics that even advanced users can grab some tidbits and reminders. Overall, it's a book targeting beginner to intermediate level designers. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.
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