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Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design [Paperback]

Christopher Schmitt , Mark Trammell , Ethan Marcotte , Todd Dominey , Dunstan Orchard
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29 July 2005 0764588338 978-0764588334
Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

As the preferred technology for Web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable Web designers and developers to define consistent styles on multiple pages. Written by leading CSS authors who are also professional programmers and designers, this is the first book to showcase examples of high–profile, real–world Web sites created by world–famous designers using CSS.

Each chapter offers an exploratory look at each designer′s process from start to finish and how he overcame each site′s unique set of challenges. You′ll learn what each designer would have done differently as well as various CSS tips and techniques that were used for each site. This is a resource to which you can turn regularly for more know–how and insights into designing large–scale, professional–level Web sites with CSS.

What you will learn from this book
∗ The preliminaries you need to iron out before you begin a site in order to avoid problems later
∗ How to tackle browser–compatibility issues
∗ Best practices for using XHTML with CSS
∗ How to successfully integrate Flash content into an XHTML and CSS site
∗ Using drop shadows, drop–down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers
∗ Ways to develop a site that can reliably handle constant streams of up–to–date information

Who this book is for

This book is for designers who understand CSS at an intermediate to advanced level, but who are looking to learn how to effectively develop CSS–enabled designs at a professional level.

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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  • Paperback: 456 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (29 July 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764588338
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764588334
  • Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 2.2 x 23.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 821,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

As the preferred technology for Web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable Web designers and developers to define consistent styles on multiple pages. Written by leading CSS authors who are also professional programmers and designers, this is the first book to showcase examples of high–profile, real–world Web sites created by world–famous designers using CSS.

Each chapter offers an exploratory look at each designer′s process from start to finish and how he overcame each site′s unique set of challenges. You′ll learn what each designer would have done differently as well as various CSS tips and techniques that were used for each site. This is a resource to which you can turn regularly for more know–how and insights into designing large–scale, professional–level Web sites with CSS.

What you will learn from this book

  • The preliminaries you need to iron out before you begin a site in order to avoid problems later
  • How to tackle browser–compatibility issues
  • Best practices for using XHTML with CSS
  • How to successfully integrate Flash content into an XHTML and CSS site
  • Using drop shadows, drop–down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers
  • Ways to develop a site that can reliably handle constant streams of up–to–date information

Who this book is for

This book is for designers who understand CSS at an intermediate to advanced level, but who are looking to learn how to effectively develop CSS–enabled designs at a professional level.

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.

About the Author

Christopher Schmitt is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm based in Tallahassee, Florida. An award–winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, he interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid–1990s while an undergraduate at Florida State University pursuing a Fine Arts degree with emphasis on graphic design. He is the author of The CSS Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2004) and Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders Press, 2002). He is also the co–author (with Micah Laaker) of Photoshop CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less (Wiley, 2004) and contributed four chapters to XML, HTML, & XHTML Magic by Molly Holzschlag (New Riders Press, 2001). Christopher has also written for New Architect magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference. In 2000, he led a team to victory in the “Cool Site in a Day” competition, wherein he and five other talented developers built a fully functional, well–designed Web site for a non–profit organization in eight hours. Speaking at conferences such as The Other Dreamweaver Conference and SXSW, he has given talks demonstrating the use and benefits of practical CSS–enabled designs. Also helping to spread the word about Web design, he is the list mom for Babble (www.babblelist.com), a mailing list community devoted to advanced Web design and development topics. On his personal Web site, www.christopherschmitt.com, he shows his true colors and most recent activities. He is 6′7" tall and does not play professional basketball, but he wouldn’t mind a good game of chess.

Mark Trammell of Gainesville, Florida, directs the Web presence at the University of Florida.

Ethan Marcotte of Boston co–founded Vertua Studios (vertua.com), a Web design shop focused on creating beautiful, user–focused sites. A steering committee member of the Web Standards Project, he is a leading industry voice on standards–based Web design. Ethan is also the curator of sidesh0w.com, a popular Web log that is equal parts design, coding, and blather.

Dunstan Orchard of Dorset, UK, and San Francisco is Senior UI Engineer at Apple’s online store. He is a member of The Web Standards Project, a silent developer for the popular open source blogging platform Wordpress, and an occasional contributor to his own site at http://1976design.com/.

Todd Dominey of Atlanta founded Dominey Design (domineydesign.com), an interactive Web development and design studio that has produced original work for Budweiser, The Washington Post, Google, Winterfresh Gum, and others. He is also a Senior Interactive Designer at Turner Sports Interactive, designing and developing Web destinations for major PGA tournaments (including the PGA Championship and The Ryder Cup).


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1.0 out of 5 stars Lamentable and annoying 30 Nov 2009
By JohnnyP
Format:Paperback
This is a book which becomes increasingly annoying with each reading. The editorial team were either asleep or, more incredibly, actually share the five authors' facile sense of humour which strangles the text and patronises the reader.

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.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book to have a deep understanding of the CSS paradigms and how best they match problems faced by Web designers who cannot assume a speficic screen size or format (i.e phones and desktop screens).
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars These CSS books are getting better and better 18 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
There have been quite a few CSS-related books released of late, a trend that is following the larger number of sites build with web standards.

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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