Product Description: Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS (no JavaScript required). Discover how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get started and build your skills is right here in this book. You’ll be stylin’ in no time!
I wish I'd bought this book first... The explanations in this book leave very little to the imagination. In other words they are clear & concise & the author makes no assumptions about previous knowledge. I had read Elizabeth Castro's "XHTML & CSS" then Andy Budd's "CSS Mastery" & although they both gave me a good understanding of what can be done they failed to truly explain how to use markup & styling like this guy does. I like the fact that he doesn't seem like he's full of himself either. It really does take more than one book & a lot of hands on to get good at this stuff & I'd recommend this book as either the starting point for a beginner or to round off the edges of an intermediate designer.
Good for an old HTMLer One of the better CSS books I've picked up. I'm a long-time Html-er who erm...hasn't kept up with the times. I tried a few times to start using CSS/Style sheets, but frankly wasn't really picking it up and it seemed more work than it was worth. Of course now that I found a book that laid it all out clearly without bogging it down with too-much-info and kept it interesting I can definitely see that it's well worth the time to update my coding.
The examples are simple enough to follow, but interesting enough to *want* to follow. There are some goodies in the downloadable files that are invaluable (like the niftycorners). Well worth the purchase.
Tools for the rest of us Most CSS tool books cater to the professional. While this book could teach many professionals a thing or two, it is an outstanding handbook for the amateur web builder, no matter how complex a website you imagine.
It helps you generate a clean, and changeable design in the simplest and most straightforward way possible. Good examples and good illustrations.
Easy read, gets you up and running with CSS fast Clear and easy to understand, thorough in it's coverage. I read it twice and it really helped me more than any other CSS book or tutorial.
A God Send!!! An absolutely brilliant book.
I would strongly recommend it to anyone struggling with CSS, not quite grasped it yet, or who's just completely new to building their own websites.
Very well illustrated, commented, and some great take-away resources such as style libraries etc.
Brilliant! :) You'll be coding your own XHTML and CSS in just a few days with this book.
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