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"Almost 500 pages of CSS help, with more than 100 pages of practical tutorials to guide you through the process of implementing and refining CSS to save you many a wasted hour. At GBP25, you'll be hard pressed to find a better guide to designing with CSS." .NET, February 2007

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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; and, 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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26 Reviews 5 star:  (23) 4 star:  (3) 3 star:    (0) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:    (0)           Average Customer Review 4.9 out of 5 stars (26 customer reviews)		Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews   36 of 37 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars The best introduction to CSS, 4 Nov 2006 By  magicsteven1 "Steven" (UK) - See all my reviews You will still want to consult Cederholm (Web Standard Solutions and Bulletproof Web Design) and Andrew (The CSS Anthology) but this is simply the best introduction to CSS available. It explains the concepts involved clearly and in a logically structured manner. Cederholm's and Andrew's books are more for dipping into when you have a specific problem. McFarland teaches you CSS from the ground up. That is not to say that this is a book simply for novices. Although I count myself as a pretty raw recruit it seems to me there is much for anyone interested in CSS in this book. It certainly pays to have this book by your side when trying to learn from the stylesheets [...] Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   14 of 14 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Without doubt the best coding book in the world ... ever!!, 21 Nov 2007 By  Mr. R. G. Grinnell "Rob Grinnell" (Solihull, West Midlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    I have read countless coding books, from HTML to JAVA, all of which claim to be the book you need, the one must have. To date none have stood up to that claim. Without exception I have finished the book and looked back wondering just how much I have taken in and learnt - if I'm lucky 20%. That is till now. CSS - The Missing Manual is, in my opinion, a great book from all aspects. It's enjoyable to read, the tutorials work, the subject is explained in all it's glory, warts an' all, and I'd read it again (sadly just because I enjoyed it so much). It covers so much and actively demonstrates the shortcomings of CSS and browser compatibility - and then gives you the simple fixes to the problems. How refreshing (pardon the pun). It also gives you a wealth of other excellent reference points (mainly web sites) to build upon the book content further. Thank you David Sawyer McFarland for this quite brilliant book. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   13 of 13 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars The missing manual? It's not kidding, 25 Jul 2007 By  M. J. Parsons (Wiltshire) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    I thought it was time to brush up and improve my css and try to crack page layout and other problems which I have never understood. Boy am I glad I found this book. I read the first half and although I didn't do the tutorials - as I knew most of it - it filled in so many gaps and made things I thought I understood so much clearer. Going beyond the basics at each page I found myself saying 'oh thats how its done' and so on. Here are some reasons I liked it: - Good style, not too chatty kept to the point, I hate technical books that waffle on and on. - Clear explainations, not afraid to get technical, sometimes suggesting the reader may want to skip the techy bits and come back later. - Very good tutorials. - Not afraid to refer readers to all sorts of supporting websites. - Dealt very well with IE issues (and there are loads of them). I highlighted the IE problems - there is a lot of yellow in my copy! But I understand all the hacks now. The only fault I could find is the section on formatting forms - it would have been useful to have a short section on where to go to find out about how to submit forms - but hey, that's a minor point. I wish all technical books were written like this - it remined me of the PC Maintenance and Upgrade Bible I bought years ago - what a book - All the other books in the 'Bible' series were a constant let-down, I will be very interested to try some other 'Missing manual' books and see if it can keep up this extremely high standard. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 26 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars A guide for beginners and for experts too I read it twice in a row. The chapter on lay-outs is as clear as possible. But the best parts are the tutorials that guide you step by step on learning everything you need. Published 22 hours ago by Pizzignach Roberto 5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read this book in April 2008 when I was just getting into CSS and realising its power. There are other good books on the subject but this one really gets you into the heart and... Read more Published 24 days ago by Geoff Tyrer (ViziGen Ltd) 4.0 out of 5 stars CSS explained If you want to use Cascading Style Sheets this book is an excellent and practical introduction. Published 1 month ago by Maria Leonor Jacinto 5.0 out of 5 stars Not Missing any more! Gradually building up a library of the "Misssing Manuals" all excellent so far and this is no exception - an invaluable reference book and tutorial whether a novice or expert. Published 1 month ago by Peter Winn 5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, clear and informative This book is quite simply the most easy-to-read technical book that I own. It is primarily aimed at beginners to XHTML and CSS so if you're a seasoned developer it may well be a... Read more Published 2 months ago by R. York 5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book This book begins with a warning that the reader should have built a couple of sites already using html and maybe css. Read more Published 3 months ago by DavidM 5.0 out of 5 stars CSS The Missing Manual The Missing Manual books never cease to amaze me. This book is a great companion book to Dreamweaver CS4 The Missing Manual. Read more Published 3 months ago by STUART L. MACKERSY 5.0 out of 5 stars CSS The missing manual What a great book on CSS. If you are a beginner like me, this is a must, but you should have some idea of html, even if your knowledge is basic. Read more Published 9 months ago by Jackie O 5.0 out of 5 stars A joy to read I think this is one of the best technical books I've ever read and it's done with style and humour. I started the book with some very basic knowledge of CSS and finished it... Read more Published 9 months ago by Video Boy 5.0 out of 5 stars Top CSS book I have been a student web designer for a few years never touching the coding side of it because well... it scared me. Read more Published 11 months ago by Ms. Se Evans Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 26 customer reviews...

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