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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
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This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS development—all
you need to work your way up to CSS professional.
You'll learn how to:
Plan, organize, and maintain your stylesheets more effectively
Apply the secrets of liquid, elastic, and hybrid layouts
Create flickr™-style image maps, remote rollovers, and other advanced
CSS features
Lay out forms using pure CSS
Recognize common browser bugs, and how to fix them
While CSS is a relatively simple technology to learn, it is a difficult one
to master. When you first start developing sites using CSS, you will come across
all kinds of infuriating browser bugs and inconsistencies. It sometimes feels
like there are a million and one different techniques to master, spread across
a bewildering array of websites. The range of possibilities seems endless and
makes for a steep and daunting learning curve.
By bringing all of the latest tips, tricks, and techniques together in one
handy reference, this book demystifies the secrets of CSS and makes the journey
to CSS mastery as simple and painless as possible. While most books concentrate
on basic skills, this one is different, assuming that you already know the basics
and why you should be using CSS in your work, and concentrating mainly on advanced
techniques.
It begins with a brief recap of CSS fundamentals such as the importance of
meaningful markup, how to structure and maintain your code, and how the CSS
layout model really works.
With the basics out of the way, each subsequent chapter details a particular
aspect of CSS-based design. Through a series of easy-to-follow tutorials, you
will learn practical CSS techniques you can immediately start using in your
daily work. Browser inconsistencies are the thorn in most CSS developers' sides,
so we have dedicated two whole chapters to CSS hacks, filters, and bug fixing,
as well as looking at image replacement; professional link, form, and list styling;
pure CSS layouts; and much more.
All of these techniques are then put into practice in two beautifully designed
case studies, written by two of the world's best CSS designers, Simon Collison
and Cameron Moll.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Setting the Foundations
Chapter 2: Visual Formatting Model Recap
Chapter 3: Background Images and Image Replacement
Chapter 4: Styling Links
Chapter 5: Styling Lists and Creating Nav Bars
Chapter 6: Styling Forms and Data Tables
Chapter 7: Layout
Chapter 8: Hacks and Filters
Chapter 9: Bugs and Bug Fixing
Case Study 1: More Than Doodles
Case Study 2: Tuscany Luxury Resorts
About the Authors
Andy Budd is an internationally renowned web designer, developer and
weblog author based in Brighton, England. Andy specializes in building attractive,
accessible, and standards complaint web solutions. Andy enjoys writing about
web techniques for sites such as digital-web.com and his work has been featured
in numerous magazines, books, and websites around the world.
Simon Collison
Simon Collison is Lead Web Developer at Agenzia (www.agenzia.co.uk),
and has worked on numerous web projects for record labels, high-profile recording
artists, leading visual artists and illustrators, including The Libertines,
Black Convoy, and Project Facade. Simon also oversees a production line of business,
community and voluntary sector websites, and passionately ensures everything
he builds is accessible, usable, and complies with current web standards. Simon
regularly reviews CSS-based websites for Stylegala, and does his best to keep
his highly popular blog (www.collylogic.com) updated with noise about web standards,
music, film, travels, and more web standards.
On those rare occasions away from the computer, Simon can be found in the pub,
or trying to con free gig tickets out of his clients. A little too obsessed
with music, he is very likely to bore you with his latest musical Top 100, or
give you a potted history of the UK Indie/Alternative scene from 1979 to the
present day.
Simon used to be a successful visual artist, with a number of solo exhibitions
to his name. In 1999 he founded You Are Here Visual Arts, an artist support
organization that spawned two city-wide festivals. He resigned from You Are
Here in 2004 to concentrate on web design, taking his artistic inspiration instead
from music, film, and design. Simon has lived in many cities, including London
and Reykjavik, but now lives happily in Nottingham with Emma and a cat called
Ziggy.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 2 Average Customer Rating: May 9, 2007 Bernard Farrell from Massachusetts, USA
Wonderful CSS Reference book
I've used many CSS books before this, including all of Eric Meyer's great books.
But this one does an exceptional job of explaining the basics first and then leading the reader through the details of how to use CSS.
For the beginner, the first chapter alone is worth the price of the book. For everyone else, you'll learn a lot more about how to effectively use CSS.
I strongly recommend this book for anyone doing Web design and development.
May 22, 2006 Will Fastie from Baltimore, MD USA
A Great First CSS Book
I'm a big fan of Eric Meyer's CSS books and used to recommend one of them to CSS neophytes. Now I'm recommending "CSS Mastery."
The trick with CSS is getting the core concepts mentally cemented in place. "CSS Mastery" is well-written, well-organized and extremely clear. That makes it approachable and that means what you read will stick.
"CSS Mastery" is not a CSS reference manual. For that, turn to Meyer's "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide." But make "CSS Mastery" your first purchase.
This was my eighth CSS book. I wish it had been my first.
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