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Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site's appearance. You can tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you how to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Witty and entertaining, this second edition gives you up-to-the-minute pro techniques. 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 rollover effects
- Create effective photo galleries and special effects, including drop shadows
- Get up to speed on CSS 3 properties that work in the latest browser versions
- Build complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs
- Style web pages for printing
With CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, you'll find all-new online tutorial pages, expanded CSS 3 coverage, and broad support for Firebox, Safari, and other major web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8. Learn how to use CSS effectively to build new websites, or refurbish old sites that are due for an upgrade.
About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He's been building websites since 1995, when he designed an online magazine for communication professionals. He's served as webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and oversaw a complete CSS-driven redesign of Macworld.com. David is also a writer, trainer, and teaches in the Portland State University multimedia program. He wrote the bestselling Missing Manual titles on Adobe Dreamweaver, CSS, and JavaScript.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My previous experience: I knew what (X)HTML was, but I'd never made a web page other than some rubbish at GCSE IT. I have been a C# programmer for 2-3 years, so I do have a general awareness of programming and mark-up languages.
The good: His explanations are clear, and with a good previous level of computer wisdom you will get to grips with the theory and power of CSS without having to read a section twice. (I can't really judge how this book would be for a complete beginner, but he certainly doesn't presume any previous knowledge so I would recommend this to a beginner.)
The bad:
As said in another review, he tells you how to use a text editor: "place your curser...", "press enter twice" etc. This is annoying and patronising if you know what you're doing.
He repeats himself over and over throughout each section. I must have been told what floating a block level element does over 5 times in different chapters.
His style of creating CSS sometimes conflicts with the whole purpose of CSS: To write HTML markup that is seperate from the layout/style. (e.g. He names classes after the position on the page they will be, something warned against in CSS Mastery)
I bought this for the Kindle, and the formatting of titles/sub-titles sometimes is a bit messed up. Still perfectly readable though.
Overall:
A very good book for learning CSS theory and techniques. It lost a star for repeating itself too much and therefore being a bit of a drag to finish.
The good: His explanations are clear, and with a good previous level of computer wisdom you will get to grips with the theory and power of CSS without having to read a section twice. (I can't really judge how this book would be for a complete beginner, but he certainly doesn't presume any previous knowledge so I would recommend this to a beginner.)
The bad:
As said in another review, he tells you how to use a text editor: "place your curser...", "press enter twice" etc. This is annoying and patronising if you know what you're doing.
He repeats himself over and over throughout each section. I must have been told what floating a block level element does over 5 times in different chapters.
His style of creating CSS sometimes conflicts with the whole purpose of CSS: To write HTML markup that is seperate from the layout/style. (e.g. He names classes after the position on the page they will be, something warned against in CSS Mastery)
I bought this for the Kindle, and the formatting of titles/sub-titles sometimes is a bit messed up. Still perfectly readable though.
Overall:
A very good book for learning CSS theory and techniques. It lost a star for repeating itself too much and therefore being a bit of a drag to finish.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With books of this type I suppose that the satisfaction derived is a question of how much you learn and I learnt a lot! Suffice to say that this is the only time I have taken the trouble to write a review but this book really merits one. It is well written, well structured and has exactly what I needed. The examples are very good and are easy to implement in a real situation. The support on the publisher's web is also excellent.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Love the book. Am pretty new to web-design. Only worked through "Build your own website the right way", which gives a good foundation in both XHTML and CSS, but was looking for more info on CSS.
The missing manual provides just that in an easy to follow way. Love it. I might yet turn into a computer geek if I can find more manuals like this one.
The missing manual provides just that in an easy to follow way. Love it. I might yet turn into a computer geek if I can find more manuals like this one.
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Very comprehensive
I know others have said that the book is a bit long-winded and almost patronising in it's approach, and I have to agree to a certain extent. Read more
Published 15 days ago by tell_sam
Brilliant book
Good tutorials, loads of examples, well written, everything explained well particularly the stuff about page layouts which most people get wrong.
Published 1 month ago by J. G. J. Wakefield
There has to be better CSS books out there
This book has been written by someone who knows CSS reasonably well, but is a bit lost when it comes to the technical aspects. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. M. Parkins
Missing Manual is crazy
I knew CSS before to buy this book....when I buy this book I saw the size (nearly 700 pages), then in that moment I saw a book about Flash CS5 from the Missing Editorial (800... Read more
Published 2 months ago by bla
Great Book! New to CSS? Buy it.
This is a great introduction to CSS and covers so much - I'm currently learning HTML & CSS and this is certainly an 'easy-approach' book. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Russell
very comprehensive
With CSS I was tempted to think i could figure it all out for myself, but conceded and brought this book. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Matthew Doran
Does what it says on the cover!
I am a self taught web designer with a print design background who has always struggled to get sites looking right using old school table layouts. Read more
Published 9 months ago by DM Design
Fantastic Book
This book is well put together and has some great examples. It completely explains the correct way to format web pages. Read more
Published 9 months ago by A. Eastham
One of the clearest Technical books I have ever read
This book has been at my side since I bought it recently, unlike others which gather dust.
The writing is superb, the technical content pitched equally between reference and... Read more
The writing is superb, the technical content pitched equally between reference and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Geeb
CSS - a steep learning curve?
This book walks you through learning CSS in an understandable and friendly way. It's a steep learning curve made easier by this book.
Published 13 months ago by P. Bane
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