Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9781590596142
ISBN: 1590596145
Label: friends of ED
Manufacturer: friends of ED
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: February 13, 2006
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Studio: friends of ED
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Over the past couple of years, web designers and developers have begun taking more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability problems and are just bad practice. There are three main web standards married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs - XHTML for data structure, JavaScript for dynamic effects, and Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data.
Working as a companion to our Web Standards Solutions book, this title covers advanced Cascading Style Sheet techniques, and includes are all the techniques you need to master CSS and craft modern, standards-compliant web page designs. You'll already know why you should be using CSS, so we dont bore you with pages of theory; instead, we jump straight into practical solutions, allowing you to get what you need as quickly as possible.
Renowned web designer Andy Budd starts off by introducing the elements of an effective CSS toolkit, including good working practices, the cascade, the box model, relative and absolute positioning, floating, and more. He then delves into advanced techniques like replacing images, styling links and lists, creating navigation menus, making forms look good, debugging and overcoming browser quirks, and hacking and filtering. The book is rounded off with two case studies to give you inspiration for your own designs, written by two more of the worlds finest web designers, Simon Collinson and Cameron Moll.
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This book completely changed the way I build and design web sites for the better. I had been using HTML tables for layout for years and never realized how limiting that method was until I read this book. The narrative is very easy to follow and the different techniques are explained extremely well. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to expand their web design and front-end coding skills.
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The book covers some topics very clearly. I've used CSS in a limited manner for years, but never done any really serious development. This book helped me gain an actual understanding of what is going on behind the scenes. For example, I never realized that vertical margins are collapsed. It also helped explain some of those annoying float clearing issues. If you already know about those, you may be looking for a more advanced book, but it does cover these beginner areas very well. I knock off a star for lack of coverage. (It's a rather short book.)
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Concise: an introductory chapter, a chapter explaining the box model, 5 short chapters covering the most useful basics of a few ways to use CSS, two chapters on hacks & bugs, and two case studies. A few hours and you're done -- ready to hit the ground running. This book is by no means a thorough reference: instead, Andy Budd gets down to the point quickly with no extraneous explanations or examples.
Each topic is addressed with a short, lucid explanation, accompanied by some code, useful graphics explaining concepts, and an example. Andy's style of presenting the material carries the same succinct, high-quality feel as his work (see clearleft.com).
The number of techniques, bugs, hacks and filters can be quite overwhelming for a newcomer, especially due to browser inconsistencies. It is therefore imperative to start coding immediately in order to become familiar with the techniques and gain some confidence in using them. This is not due to the nature of the book, ... Read More
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This book is exactly what I want in a Web or computer book ... short and too the point. It teaches by example rather than lengthy explanations. After a brief recap of CSS basics, you jump right into real-world examples of styling tables, lists, links, etc. The section on hacks and filters serves as a quick heads up to cross-browser compatibility problems. The case studies at the end really bring everything together.
Even though this book was published in 2006, it still feels cutting-edge today. This is not a CSS For Dummies book. This is for those who have already had some exposure to CSS and HTML, and want to start doing cutting-edge designs. Thanks, Andy!
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A useful, well written guide to using CSS in modern websites. I'm not the type to skim read technical manuals. I like to read them cover to cover, and this is the kind of book you will happily read in full.
My only reservation is that the book seems written too much around the examples provided, rather than aiming to give more general and transferable examples to work through.
I tend to try and learn most of this stuff through online tutorials, so I was reluctant to fork out any money for a book. But it was worth it.
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