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  • Paperback: 494 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS (25 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590598040
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590598047
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Applying design patterns to HTML and CSS allows web developers and designers to improve their work, in terms of efficiency/productivity and end results, so this is an essential book for anyone involved in the industry to own. As well as information on CSS and HTML best practices, this book provides the reader with all the CSS and HTML design patterns they need, to adapt for their own projects quickly and easily, along with details of exactly how each one works, and how to use them most effectively. The book is up to date for modern browser support, and CSS and HTML specs.

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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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A straightforward guide to using CSS to solve problems., 21 Nov 2007
By John Nunn (Coventry, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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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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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on CSS, bar none., 11 April 2008
By Kirk St Moritz "Kirk" (UK) - See all my reviews
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My CSS roadmap has consisted of the following three books:


1. Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional
2. CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
3. Pro CSS & HTML Design Patterns

I have also ploughed through the O'reilly books (useful but dry) and a few others, but the above three stood out in my mind as the most useful.

Beginning CSS stands out because it is really useful right from the word go. Its examples are well documented and it is easy to read. By the time I had finished it I was already designing my first website in a standards-based fashion. I had done sites before that, but they were a complete mess (both front and back end!) in comparison to my output after reading this book.

CSS makes web design so much easier. It gives your site a consistent look and feel and makes for a rapid development cycle. IF YOU USE IT PROPERLY!!!

This book shows you how to do just that. It is only an introduction, but it will put you on a very firm foundation for the other books you will need to consume.

CSS Mastery takes over from where Beginning CSS left off. There is a bit of an overlap, but its nice to get an intermediate book and not feel out of your depth in the first chapter!

Using the book, you will cover a lot of the more advanced techniques out there. You can find most of them dotted about the web already, on sites like alistapart.com (and indeed, the O'Reilly CSS toolkit). However, the authors cover them in a way that actually sounds like they enjoy what they are doing, and that makes it much easier to digest.

I wasn't 100% confident with CSS though once I finished the book. Well, I was in theory, but once I tried putting that into practice all the browser incompatibility issues appeared to reat their ugly head...

Or so I thought, until I read Pro CSS & HTML Design Patterns.

This book assumes you know CSS basics. Thats the first thing I need to say. Don't buy this if you are a complete beginner. It takes your knowledge, and shows you how to apply it properly. The reason some of my designs inspired by the first two books I mentioned didn't work was not down to browser incompatibility issues, it was because there are in fact 6 box models, not one, and they behave differently.

Looking back on the previous two books, this is mentioned in passing, but it took Pro CSS to explain it clearly and concisely, and to show me how to do it correctly.

The book really is laid out well. There are screenshots showing exactly what each effect does, together with the html and css used to generate the effect.

I haven't finished this book yet, but already I feel like a pro now. Its like I have the complete picture whereas the other two books didn't tell the whole story. I needed the first two books to get me in a position to fully appreciate this book. However, now that I have this one, I think its the only one I need now.

Full marks!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A clean Pattern Based process to problem solving with CSS, 13 Jan 2008
By Douggy Fresh (London,UK) - See all my reviews
Where is nothing new about CSS. There are loads of books that cover CSS startinbg from a syntax viewpoint. This works from a design patter viewpoint to solve problems.
It decomposes what you find of typical websites (eg tabbed content) then clean maintainable CSS to acheive the design goals. It very clearly shows you what and why there are different variations and so where they would be used.

It is time for clearing your shelves of the other CSS books you may have and replacing them with just the one - I have a job to do, whats the quickest way to get to the end game without rework!
This books is suitable for those getting into DHTML/AJAX.
Not the best book for artists perhaps.
Perfect for a design agency where ontime/onbudget issues matter. The design patterns are about repeatablity, maintainablity and best practice - what works consistently.

Deals well with CSS inheritance (base/master style then modifiers), good for maintianing a brand well across a site of many sections(eg articles/forums/products/blogs/profiles/search refinements) then switching them for vision/print/mobile device accessiblity.
Now all it needs if it to have a good section on VS200x Themes&Skins, eg we start with a theme(plan) and acheive it CSS. This book assumes you are marking up HTML versa "<asp:DataList" but a good start.
Guess you have to throw away books sometimes :(
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