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Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition
Focusing on the best–practices aspect of web development, this full–color book is revised to reflect the changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published. Featuring examples from real–world web sites, each chapter provides easily digestible CSS tips and techniques that were used for a specific site. The chapters document the designer′s process from start to finish and provide insight as to how the designers overcame each site′s unique set of challenges as well as ways they would have done things differently.
Offering a hands–on look into designing standards–based, large–scale, professional–level CSS web sites, this unique book presents understandable solutions to common problems and offers an intelligible approach to effectively developing CSS–enabled designs at a professional level.
What you will learn from this book
Best practices for using XHMTL with CSS
How to orchestrate a new look and feel for a blog
The ins and outs of designing a site that is relied upon by millions of users
Techniques for including drop shadows, drop–down menus, and embedded Flash® content into a web site
Tips for tackling browser–compatibility issues as well as developing functional navigational structures
Ways to customize a web site through CSS coding
How to create HTML e–mail templates, basic HTML table layouts, and how CSS plays a role in both
The importance of grids and layouts in design
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who are looking for a clear understanding of how to use CSS to create professional–level web sites.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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The case studies introduce too much extraneous information and, for me, are unsuccessful; the points they address could have been made more succinctly without them. Building chapters around case studies makes it difficult to find the specific information subsequently - this is exacerbated by completely unhelpful entries in the table of contents (e.g. "A glimpse into a Classless Future (Not a Socialist Manifesto)" [drum roll, cymbal crash], or "Love your body Even More Tomorrow" [ho, ho]).
Instead of going into a second edition, Wrox press should have pulped any stockpiled copies and fired this team of jokers.
I would recommend prospective purchasers to avoid this book like the plague; there are better books which cover CSS more professionally and thoroughly.
It is not possible to give a rating of zero stars, so please do not take my 1* rating as any kind of commendation.
How disappointed I am! The book tries to joke with the reader all the time in a very condescendant way (page 12, "This should-oh, you get the point. Happy yet?". Rather than explaining in an generic fashion what the problem is and what the solution is, the reader is inundated with numerous examples of the same symptomatique issue page after page. Once again, do the authors think that we cannot grasp very basic abstract concepts? Is it a tentative to fill up the requested minimum number of pages set by the editor?
This book is at best a cookbook, at worse a waste of time. It does certainly not provide any insight into CSS and won't help you design your website both for desktop screens and smartphone screens.
Whereas a book such as 'Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook' by Dan Cederholm is great, this book excels because of its examination of standards built sites such as blogger.com and the us pga tour golf site.
There are a large number of examples, and the book is generally well written.
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