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Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design View Larger Image | Eric Meyer
New Riders Publishing, Paperback, Published June 2002, 322 pages, ISBN 073571245X | List Price: $55.00
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At last a practical guide to CSS from the recognized master - Eric Meyer, internationally recognized as THE CSS guru.
There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book:
- Easy-to-follow projects that go beyond the basics to present solutions to design problems.
- This book not only tells you how to write CSS, but explains why you've taken the steps recommended.
Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993. He is currently employed as a Standards Evangelist with Netscape Communications and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe. A graduate of and former Webmaster for Case Western Reserve University, Eric is also an Invited Expert with the W3C CSS&FP Working Group and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's CSS1 Test Suite. He often speaks at conferences on the subjects of CSS, Web design, Web standards, Web browsers, and how they all go together.
About the Technical Reviewers
These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design. As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that this book fits our reader's need for the highest-quality technical information.
With over 20 Web development books to her credit, Molly E. Holzschlag is also a popular columnist and feature writer for such diverse publications as Macworld, PC Magazine, IBM developerWorks, and Builder.com. She is an engaging speaker and teacher, appearing regularly at such conferences as Comdex, Internet World, and Web Builder. As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. Currently, she is serving as the Associate Editor for Digital Web Magazine. Molly also acts as an advisory board committee member to numerous organizations, including the World Organization of Webmasters.
Tobias Horvath has been involved with Web technologies since 1995, when he was just 12 years old. Growing up in the early stages of the Internet, he made his journey to become a Macintosh enthusiast. During the day, he is trying to be a student in Essen, Germany, where he lives.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.
PROJECT 1 Converting an Existing Page.
Converting the Document. The Benefits of All Our Work.
PROJECT 2 Styling a Press Release.
Styling the Document. Altering the Styles. Externalizing Our Style. Adding to the Basic Design.
PROJECT 3 Styling an Events Calendar.
Styling the Document. Working with a More Detailed Calendar.
PROJECT 4 Bringing Hyperlinks to Life.
Styling the Document.
PROJECT 5 How to Skin a Menu.
Styling the Menu. Reskinning the Menu.
PROJECT 6 Styling for Print.
Styling the Document for Print. Print Styles for a Press Release. Styling a Calendar for Printing.
PROJECT 7 Making an Input Form Look Good.
Styling the Document. Print Styles. Finishing Up.
PROJECT 8 Creating an Online Greeting Card.
Styling the Document. A Variant Look.
PROJECT 9 Multicolumn Layout.
Styling the Document. Styling the Document with Positioning. Styling Three Columns. Refloating the Design.
PROJECT 10 Sneaking Out of the Box.
Styling the Document. Curves Ahead.
PROJECT 11 positioning a better design.
Styling the Document.
PROJECT 12 Fixing Your Backgrounds.
Styling the Document.
PROJECT 13 Eric Meyer on CSS in CSS.
Styling the Document. Postproject Analysis.
Index.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 3 Average Customer Rating: Feb 9, 2005 Will Fastie from Baltimore, MD USA
Superb!
If you learn best with hands-on practice, this is the book that will teach you CSS. I had reworked a couple of my own Web pages with CSS for practice, but I learned more (and understood more) after doing the first exercise in this book. The step-by-step approach really drives the concepts home.
Sep 6, 2003 Kathy Roach from Seattle, Washington USA
Eric Meyer, God of the Stylesheets universe!
There are several renowned and respected CSS experts, but there is only one Eric Meyer, God of the CSS universe! If I could characterize Eric's most valuable asset in a single word, it would be "simplicity". His code seems to perform in 10 lines what others need 100 lines to execute! His knowledge of every little browser quirk, his relentless push beyond known stylesheets limitations, his attention to both the tech and the creative side of stylesheets development and the ease with which he delivers his knowledge in a clear and concise manner is rivaled by no other!
I'm happy to report that the elegant simplicity doesn't stop with only the code. Until his long awaited book was published, placing all his wisdom in one handy, well-organized, book, I spent hours deep in the bowels of the "invisible web" in blogs and obscure archives for every article, every forum posting, and literally every word written by Eric on the web for my "Eureka-moments-of-truth" about highpass filters, voice-family trickery and other cross-compatability voodoo in order to make all those browsers and browser versions play nice together!
ERIC MEYER ON CSS, is a mirror of that boundless wisdom, which he so generously shares with anyone who cares to know it! And he does so with unrivaled clarity. Through careful organization, each project progressively builds in complexity, while at the same time, covers every important aspect of all foundation stylesheet constructs necessary to building "real world" web sites for today's, tomorrow's AND yesterday's browsers!
but, wait! That's not all! I've saved the best for last! Eric doesn't use standard 3-column or portal style css layouts for his case studies. Certain to win the hearts of web creative designers everywhere, he pushes the envelope of css creativity with word-wraps around images, semi-transparent scrolling backgrounds and other print layout-defying feats!
My compliments to the publisher for successfully capturing the essence of Eric's web site in the layout of the book. Through excellent art direction, every page is easy on the eyes (and the brain with the absence of clutter), yet no page is wasted with full-page photo abstractions that make the reader feel like he purchased half-a-book for twice the price!
While Eric's book is clear, concise and easy to understand even for those just starting to learn stylesheets, I wouldn't exactly call it a beginner's book. ERIC MEYER ON CSS is most valuable to designers and coders who are already using stylesheets on their sites, even if only in the most basic form.
The only notable flaw of the book, in my opinion, is a very inadequate index. I looked to no avail for such terms as 'contextual selectors' and .png image format (which he uses as a semi-transparent background in one of his case studies and carefully advises that MSIE has no alpha channel support for the .png format). When I looked for 'hiding from browser', I found only hiding elements under "H", but happened to find the browser-hiding information by accident somewhere else. Unfortunately, after I left the index to visit the page with browser hiding hints, I couldn't locate 'hiding from browser' again in the index! An incomplete index like this one would be a beginner's nightmare, as unfamiliarity with advanced terms would make searching the entire text for a previously enountered term or concept, a tedious and frustrating chore!
In closing, I must mention that Eric Meyer is also the expert's expert. This book is by no means a representation of the pinnacle of Eric's knowledge. More articles, interviews, white papers and other all-things-stylesheets content by Eric can be found all over the internet. For the seasoned stylesheets user, this book is a must-have, the best book available on the subject, especially when used along with Eric's web site content. For the beginner, I'd say, at the least, it should be used in tandem with a term-oriented book on the basics, or at the most, it is an exciting book to look forward to after learning the basics.
Thanks, Eric...for sharing with us!
Jul 18, 2003 A review from U.S.A.
A must-read for anyone who wants to leverage the power of CSS
This has been one of the best web design books and I have recommended it to several of my colleagues who are trying to learn and use CSS. Whether you are a pro or a beginning, you will find Eric's step-by-step instruction very useful. Kudo the publisher as well for a very well edited book.
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