| Overview
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.
Editorial ReviewsBook DescriptionWeb 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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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 47 reviews. An Absolutely "Must Have" for Anyone Serious About Learning CSS, 2008-03-17 Reviewer rating: CSS: The Missing Manual is just a terrific book for anyone who has the slightest interest in learning about Cascading Style Sheets and how they can create stunning web pages.
This book is clearly written with step-by-step instructions that are both easy to follow and fun to try. Best of all...you'll find yourself creating some pretty nice web pages via CSS in no time...and saying, "So that's how they do that!" The downloadable chapter lessons are an extra bonus that I found to be extremely helpful.
If you have the patience and dedication...and really want to learn CSS, this is "the" one book to buy. It's worth every penny of it's $35.00 list price. I would highly recommend it to anyone. | Excellent guided introduction to CSS, 2008-03-05 Reviewer rating: In my business, I have a constant need to learn new technologies, protocols and methodologies. It's a never-ending need and, fortunately from my perspective, enjoyable much of the time.
What makes it enjoyable are learning aids like "CSS: The Missing Manual".
Author McFarland takes the reader step-by-step through CSS from the very basics through a moderately high level of understanding. He does it in small, amply illustrated examples that are clear and relatively free of errors. (McFarland does maintain a website where examples and errata may be downloaded.)
McFarland's style is very clear and he doesn't find a need to resort to the stupid humor found in too many books explaining technology.
Overall, a great little teaching aid and a credit to the Missing Manuals series.
Jerry
| Great resource, 2008-02-25 Reviewer rating: This book is a great and authoritative guide to CSS programming. It's easy to read and has good examples and tutorials that makes a sometimes-complex "language" easy to understand. The bugs in various implementations are discussed with frankness and confidence that gives the reader less intimidation about workarounds. I found this a fantastic guide, and well conceived and executed.
I own several "Missing Manual" guides, and impressed with how they read appropriate to most any level of existing experience or skill, unlike some of the "Dummies & Idiots" guides, which seem to only be an appetizer to another, better guide when you need to further your knowledge. | Outstanding writer. Outstanding book., 2008-02-13 Reviewer rating: This book is by far the best book out there if you want to learn Dreamweaver CS3. Not only does the author show you important features of the program, he explains web design concepts and principles. This is the best $30 I've ever spent. Thank you David for such a great book.
You should write every book for all of Adobe's products. | A Must Have for Web Designers, 2008-02-01 Reviewer rating: This book is definitely a must have for web designers (or people like me who are learning web design). A friend of mine referred me to this book and I absolutely love it. It is very straight-forward reading and includes tutorials at the end of each section to reiterate what you have learned. The Missing Manual series is an excellent way to get you going on many different topics... for CSS, this manual is great even if you have very little experience with HTML.
Buy this book... It is well worth the cost. You will not be disappointed! |
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