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- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects
- This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available
- Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development
- Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions
- U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems
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A step–by–step guide for stepping up from plain HTML
Create Web sites that grab attention, remain consistent, and are easy to update
Attention Web designers! CSS can be your secret weapon, and this book shows you how to use it. CSS helps you create dynamic visual effects, unify the look of your site, and deliver your site′s content in a professional way that gets noticed. It even makes updates and changes a breeze. Here′s what you need to get up to speed!
Discover how to
- Create practical style sheets
- Format pages that are visually pleasing
- Manage details such as colors and backgrounds
- Handle lists and tables
- Render complex documents
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Underneath all Web pages is good old HTML, the markup language that controls things such as font sizes and color of text, where an image goes, and info about other elements of the page. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Underneath all Web pages is good old HTML, the markup language that controls things such as font sizes and color of text, where an image goes, and info about other elements of the page. Read the first page
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This dreadful book should carry a health warning. One of the major points about CSS and modern web design is that they should be standards compliant and cross-browser friendly. Time after time the author repeats that it's fine to code only for Internet Explorer, and if it doesn't work for anyone else, that's just too bad. If you want to learn about *proper* CSS usage you need a book like Jeffrey Zeldman's 'Designing With Web Standards'. Someone should send a copy of it to the author of this nonsense. This book is not just for dummies, clearly it was also written by one.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Admittedly this book does present CSS in a reasonably clear and detailed manner; pretty good for the beginner.
However this authors obsession with Internet Explorer surpasses irritation.
The book was written in 2005 and apparently in 2005 Internet Explorer dominated 99% or 96% (depending which page you read) of the market. How anyone who is professionally involved with web design doesn't realise the userbase of other browsers is beyond comprehension. Web design and programming is one of the fastest changing technologies in the 21st century. This book still considers Netscape the minority competition when at the time Mozilla was hammering on the door of 14% of the market.
If you can ignore the IE only stuff Mansfield does a good job of explaining the fundementals of CSS and actually using it somewhere. If you are looking to start web design with the intention of being professional I would look elsewhere otherwise you might just find your skills don't keep up with the real world.
The only other problem with this book is that the pictured examples of code sometimes doesn't match the pictured output. Most of the time it's not a problem as the descriptions are pretty good, but sometimes it can also be crucial to the understanding.
One term for budding professionals: cross-browser-compatibility
However this authors obsession with Internet Explorer surpasses irritation.
The book was written in 2005 and apparently in 2005 Internet Explorer dominated 99% or 96% (depending which page you read) of the market. How anyone who is professionally involved with web design doesn't realise the userbase of other browsers is beyond comprehension. Web design and programming is one of the fastest changing technologies in the 21st century. This book still considers Netscape the minority competition when at the time Mozilla was hammering on the door of 14% of the market.
If you can ignore the IE only stuff Mansfield does a good job of explaining the fundementals of CSS and actually using it somewhere. If you are looking to start web design with the intention of being professional I would look elsewhere otherwise you might just find your skills don't keep up with the real world.
The only other problem with this book is that the pictured examples of code sometimes doesn't match the pictured output. Most of the time it's not a problem as the descriptions are pretty good, but sometimes it can also be crucial to the understanding.
One term for budding professionals: cross-browser-compatibility
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Teach me to read the reviews, not teach me CSS.
I've been muddling through, looking after a website based on PostNuke (content management system) for the last 4 years. Before that I had a site that was just a collection of html pages, starting with pages that I'd written in Microsoft Word before I gradually realised that Word is NOT an html editor. Eventually I decided that I need to get to grips with CSS.
The thing is, I've used the "...Dummies" books before and found them reasonably good so naturally I thought this one would be the same. No way.
I persevered when the author told me that I should ignore Firefox and other "minority" browsers because 95% of people browsing my website would be using Internet Explorer. Maybe that was true in 2005 but if so, Firefox use was 5% and growing but why would I want to alienate even 5% of my visitors? I even persevered when he told me I should use the cool Internet Explorer only filters because he said he would get to them later. But I baulked at the idea that a professional web designer could advocate using Microsoft Word as a cool way to produce html! That was chapter 3 and I haven't been able to get past that yet.
As I said, I should have read the reviews. That'll teach me.
I've been muddling through, looking after a website based on PostNuke (content management system) for the last 4 years. Before that I had a site that was just a collection of html pages, starting with pages that I'd written in Microsoft Word before I gradually realised that Word is NOT an html editor. Eventually I decided that I need to get to grips with CSS.
The thing is, I've used the "...Dummies" books before and found them reasonably good so naturally I thought this one would be the same. No way.
I persevered when the author told me that I should ignore Firefox and other "minority" browsers because 95% of people browsing my website would be using Internet Explorer. Maybe that was true in 2005 but if so, Firefox use was 5% and growing but why would I want to alienate even 5% of my visitors? I even persevered when he told me I should use the cool Internet Explorer only filters because he said he would get to them later. But I baulked at the idea that a professional web designer could advocate using Microsoft Word as a cool way to produce html! That was chapter 3 and I haven't been able to get past that yet.
As I said, I should have read the reviews. That'll teach me.
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An excellent step by step guide
In this area I did indeed start off as a dummy! By the time I'd followed several of the chapters in the book, which is well written and illustrated. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. O'Sullivan
Reference only.
"A Reference for the Rest of Us!" is shouted on the cover. That should read "Only as a reference for the rest of us!", this book is not suitable for beginners. Read more
Published 11 months ago by P. Coghill
All good
Was a little slow arriving but that was due to it coming from Canada (which i have to confess i didn't realise when i ordered but in fact woulnd't have stopped me from... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Aquavision Music Ltd
Not a good book
If you want to learn CSS, this is not the book for you. I'm quite competent with html but don't understand a word this book is on about. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2007 by Mr. Clive F. Bennett
Great for Beginners
Let's face it, reviews are all very well and indeed there are lots of good ones (including some on this page), however, it's proof we all want. Read more
Published on 8 April 2007 by gadget
All round good reference book
As the title suggests, this is an all round good reference book. Its great for beginners and experts, and is fully supported with a web site to download the code mentioned in... Read more
Published on 25 July 2005
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