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  • Paperback: 493 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS (25 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590598040
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590598047
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.9 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns is a reference book and a cookbook on how to style web pages using CSS and XHTML. It contains 350 ready–to–use patterns (CSS and XHTML code snippets) you can copy and paste into your code. Each pattern can be combined with other patterns to create an unlimited number of solutions.

Each pattern works reliably in all major browsers without the need for browser hacks.

The book’s layout, with a pattern’s example on the left page and its explanation on the right, makes it easy to find a pattern and study it without having to flip between pages. The book is also readable from cover to cover, with topics building carefully upon previous topics.

A software developer can use this book to learn CSS for the first time. A designer familiar with CSS can use this book to master CSS and XHTML. If you are completely new to coding or completely new to CSS and XHTML, you may want to read an introductory book on CSS and XHTML first.

You can interact with all the examples in the book at www.cssDesignPatterns.com.

About the Author

Michael Bowers is a software developer who has been cranking out all kinds
of code for 17 years professionally and 25 years personally. He taught
himself to program when he was fourteen and hasn't stopped since.

He has been the chief software developer and architect for many projects
ranging from web sites to application frameworks to compilers. He has built
intranet applications, automated factories with robotics, architected
databases, programmed handheld devices, created sales management systems,
and much more.
His favorite languages include HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, C#, C, Visual Basic,
and ASP.

He is an accomplished pianist with a Bachelors degree in Music Composition
and a Masters degree in Music Theory. In his spare time he loves to
improvise, arrange, and compose music.

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As a developer working on web based projects, I have often found myself spending far too much time trying to achieve a good looking site using CSS only to find that a combination of styles causes the page to suddenly stop working. This book should be by every developer's machine as it provides simple recipes for achieving many of the day today tasks needed to create great looking css based sites. The book has a straight forward problem - solution approach which is engaging as both a cover to cover read and a day to day reference.
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HTML and CSS are not modular languages, unlike Javascript. This book serves up ideas/effects/display methods in tiny chunks, showing both the HTML and the CSS needed the produce them. This is great for learning how CSS properties (such as width, display, font-family...) behave differently according to the type of HTML element you are working with (inline, block, float...). However, when designing and building websites there is an overall theme you try to achieve which will usually involve dozens of these "patterns" laid out in this book.

If you're just starting out with web programming, you will find yourself trying to memorise every pattern as you read them. If you do purchase this title focus more on the CSS rules described in the syntax explanations, rather than attempting to remember all the code!

Also, a main feature of this teaching style is that all the code has been tested to work across all browsers saving you from that horrible trial and error process. This would mean you are learning cross-browser compatible code from the start, and avoiding developing bad habbits. Unfortunately I did find at least one example (creating tab-style navigation bars) that does not work across all browsers and is very buggy.

This book is truely unique, and shows what you can achieve with just HTML and CSS. Some effects, I thought could only be done with image editing software like photoshop! I also think this title was harder to digest than I expected and it will take you a while to get through.
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excelent 6 May 2009
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Format:Paperback
After your learn the basics of CSS, this is the book that will show you how it REALLY works, and more importantly what REALLY works. A must buy.
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