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CSS: The Missing Manual |  | Author: David McFarland
Publisher: Pogue Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $27.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 776301
Format: Download: PDF
Media: Digital
Pages: 494
Publication Date: February 14, 2008
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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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 Logical organization and good pacing March 9, 2010
M. Caddell (Austin, TX)
I checked out three other CSS books from the library before trying this one. This was the best by far. The progression of topics is logical, and the pacing is good too. The tutorials do a great job of demonstrating the topics, and the logical arrangement makes it easy to go back and refer to code snippets and examples when coding your own site. I also appreciate the attention given to developing good CSS habits. I was once completely baffled and overwhelmed by CSS, but after reading this, I feel that I have a solid understanding of it to build on.
Wonderful! March 4, 2010
Texas High Def (Texas)
This book is absolutely on one of the best tech books I have ever read. It's 100% helpful in learning CSS as well as the fundamentals of web design. I will not hesitate buying any book by David McFarland in the future.
 Very good to Excellent - CSS and HTML February 17, 2010
Rudy Andl
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
All the information to get you up and running building your own sites with css and html is laid out in an easy to follow step by step manner. The templates are easy to follow and all the examples are clear and concise. One chapter builds coherently on the template of the previous chapter which leads to a finished usable example.
I would suggest learning some html and css before jumping into this manuel. It is not for the total css/html novice. The examples and tutorial are an excellent learning tool but a little experience is necessary to get the full benefit without having to stop and research some of the basic concepts and practices taken for granted as being known.
All in all this is one of the best learning tools on the market. The author has a good sense of humor that he interjects at the right moments to keep this manual from reading like a dictionary. It is also one of the most up to date instruction manuals on the market with all the latest and greatest CSS.
If you follow the instruction and practice all the projects you will be able to author as fine a web page as there is.
Worth Its Weight in Gold February 12, 2010
Midwest Book Lover
If you want to quickly get up to speed and learn what CSS can do for your skills in designing a complete and functional web site, this is the book to do it. The information contained in "CSS the missing manual" demystifies CSS in a simple yet comprehensive manner. Do both yourself and the folks that will browse your site a favor, get a copy of the book, read it and put its concepts into practice.
CSS: The Missing Manual 2nd Edition February 6, 2010
Robert E. Diggs (Bozeman, MT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amazing text book, made my professional web authoring much better and much easier to maintain the pages built. Second edition is more useful than the 1st edition and the info is more current. Anyone who wants to use (and they should use) CSS needs to go through this book's tutorials. The tutorials are excellent.
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