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- Publisher: Wrox Pr Inc; 2 edition (26 Jan 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470382929
- ISBN-13: 978-0470382929
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
20 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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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