- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (9 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321293916
- ISBN-13: 978-0321293916
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 19.3 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 901,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives you control over the appearance of your Web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. It lets you easily make minor changes to a site or perform a complete overhaul of the design. In CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training, you’ll start with a review of CSS essentials, learn to build effective navigation and page layouts, and then move on to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. The included CD-ROM is loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, and real-world projects take you through the Web page creation process, one step at a time. Over 60 Step-by-Step Tutorials
• Using CSS and XHTML together
• Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade
• Creating CSS navigation
• Laying out pages with CSS
• Adding colors and backgrounds
• Setting typography
• Creating white space, margins, and borders
• Creating tables
• Styling for print
• Plus much more!
• Using CSS and XHTML together
• Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade
• Creating CSS navigation
• Laying out pages with CSS
• Adding colors and backgrounds
• Setting typography
• Creating white space, margins, and borders
• Creating tables
• Styling for print
• Plus much more!
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These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives you control over the appearance of your Web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. It lets you easily make minor changes to a site or perform a complete overhaul of the design. In CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training, you’ll start with a review of CSS essentials, learn to build effective navigation and page layouts, and then move on to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. The included CD-ROM is loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, and real-world projects take you through the Web page creation process, one step at a time. Over 60 Step-by-Step Tutorials
• Using CSS and XHTML together
• Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade
• Creating CSS navigation
• Laying out pages with CSS
• Adding colors and backgrounds
• Setting typography
• Creating white space, margins, and borders
• Creating tables
• Styling for print
• Plus much more!
• Using CSS and XHTML together
• Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade
• Creating CSS navigation
• Laying out pages with CSS
• Adding colors and backgrounds
• Setting typography
• Creating white space, margins, and borders
• Creating tables
• Styling for print
• Plus much more!
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79 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Found and Fixed what seemed to be a "Fatal Flaw"
25 Dec 2006
Format:Paperback
Although there is alot to like about this book, there is a fatal flaw that needs to be considered by anybody thinking about buying it. Apparently the author wrote and tested the book entirely on a Mac, and it appears that the css was never tested under IE6/7 on Windows. Many variations of a single page are used throughout the book and unfortunately 1 small piece of the css used for the masthead and navigation menu simply does NOT work in IE6/7. The problem is some kind of a quirk in Internet Explorer because the css works correctly in Firefox and presumably on a Mac. Because the same page is used in several chapters the problem also ripples through several chapters. The problem is manifested whenever you try to match what you were instructed to do against the screen shot and what happens is that the navigational menu disapears - so your screen frequently doesn't look like the snapshot in the book. I have submitted the problem to the publisher but because it affects so many parts of the book, the fix may take some time.
So if you are running Windows and are willing to work through the book using only Firefox then carry on because I think the material is worth it. And maybe the real value to the book is to challenge you and develop your skills such that you can figure out the workaround. But if you want it all clean and spelled out for you can only be patient.
Later... after the first pass at the review. I can't seem to change the 2 stars to 4 stars which I would if I could. I found the answer to the Fatal Flaw. To give credit where credit is due, the pointer to the answer comes from "CSS The Missing Manual" by David Sawyer McFarland.
In several internal as well as external stylesheets and in multiple chapters, you are either instructed to enter "#masthead {background: #ABD240;}" - not including the quotes, or it is already in the style sheet. What you need to enter is "#masthead {background: #ABD240; line-height: 1.1;}" or change the already existing entry - again not including the quotes. This doesn't change anything else on the screen but apparently fixes this IE6/7 idiosyncracy. With all this said, I recommend that you get this book.
So if you are running Windows and are willing to work through the book using only Firefox then carry on because I think the material is worth it. And maybe the real value to the book is to challenge you and develop your skills such that you can figure out the workaround. But if you want it all clean and spelled out for you can only be patient.
Later... after the first pass at the review. I can't seem to change the 2 stars to 4 stars which I would if I could. I found the answer to the Fatal Flaw. To give credit where credit is due, the pointer to the answer comes from "CSS The Missing Manual" by David Sawyer McFarland.
In several internal as well as external stylesheets and in multiple chapters, you are either instructed to enter "#masthead {background: #ABD240;}" - not including the quotes, or it is already in the style sheet. What you need to enter is "#masthead {background: #ABD240; line-height: 1.1;}" or change the already existing entry - again not including the quotes. This doesn't change anything else on the screen but apparently fixes this IE6/7 idiosyncracy. With all this said, I recommend that you get this book.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
You'll be pissed if you code on a P.C. in IE6!
29 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
It's all fine and dandy that Eric Meyers knows his stuff. This book will teach you CSS in Fire Fox, no doubt about it. But if you are coding to develop websites for IE, you're going to want to toss this book out the window by the time you get to chapters 6 and 7.
How could the publisher put out a book without testing this cross platform and without previewing it in IE6? That's asinine at best! At the very least put out a website as a follow-up to answer questions brought to your attention by your readers.
Example 1: How do you make the negative margins work in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Example 2: Why is the date aligned to the left in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Example 3: Why is the text in the footer not aligned perfectly in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Test your own product out again, Peach Pit Press. You've written a book without testing the product in Internet Explorer and that is just downright negligent at best.
What a shame too as this instructional manual is otherwise worthy of 4 stars.
How could the publisher put out a book without testing this cross platform and without previewing it in IE6? That's asinine at best! At the very least put out a website as a follow-up to answer questions brought to your attention by your readers.
Example 1: How do you make the negative margins work in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Example 2: Why is the date aligned to the left in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Example 3: Why is the text in the footer not aligned perfectly in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Test your own product out again, Peach Pit Press. You've written a book without testing the product in Internet Explorer and that is just downright negligent at best.
What a shame too as this instructional manual is otherwise worthy of 4 stars.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Tutorial
17 Mar 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is a real hand-holder, slowly leading you through the world of separating form from content. The author explains how to use CSS to control the appearance and layout of your pages, and why some choices are better than others. If you've felt challenged in your past attempts to learn CSS, this book might just be the breakthrough you've been looking for. As well as the best guide for self-instruction I've seen yet, "CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training" would make an excellent textbook for anyone teaching CSS.
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