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Robin Nixon's CSS & CSS3 Crash Course: Learn CSS in 16 Easy Lessons
 
 

Robin Nixon's CSS & CSS3 Crash Course: Learn CSS in 16 Easy Lessons [Kindle Edition]

Robin Nixon

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From the author of the top-selling book "Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript", and the popular "Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course", this new CSS & CSS 3 course teaches you everything you need to know about the web layout language, all the way from the basics, up to advanced features such as animations, transformations, shadows, web font management and much, much more.

Everything is clearly explained with plenty of examples and figures, and you will absolutely find this one of the easiest courses you have ever taken. Once you've completed it, you'll completely understand CSS and CSS3, and be fully confident of how to use it to make really impressive and dynamic web pages.

Starting from the basics of CSS (which experienced users can skim) the book covers everything you need to know about CSS and CSS3 in these 16 easy-to-follow lectures:
  • Introduction to CSS
  • The CSS Rules
  • CSS Selectors
  • The CSS Cascade
  • CSS Fonts & Typography
  • CSS Color & Position
  • The CSS Boc Model
  • Introduction to CSS3
  • CSS3 Attribute Selectors
  • CSS3 Backgrounds
  • CSS3 Borders
  • CSS3 Box Shadows, Overflow & Columns
  • CSS3 Colors & Opacity
  • CSS3 Text Effects & Web Fonts
  • CSS3 Transformations & Transitions
  • CSS3 3D Transformations
Once you've read this book you will be fully up-to-date on all the latest powerful design features provided by CSS3, and will be all set to bring your web designs up to the next level.

About the Author

Robin Nixon has been a writer for 30 years, has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the UK's top magazines, and has authored over a dozen books. Robin started his writing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology, and writing supporting documentation and articles for a selection of national magazines. After this Robin's career became a hundred percent writing-oriented when he joined a large magazine publisher, where he held a variety of different editorial positions, before leaving to become a self-employed writer. With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites (including the world's first licensed Internet radio station). In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows. In the late 1990s and early 2000s Robin and his family moved to the USA a couple of times, once to run a web design company in California, and then again to set up an English Tearoom in Texas. In between times they ran several successful pubs, bed and breakfasts and nightclubs in England. In recent years Robin has begun to focus more closely on motivation and personal improvement in his writing, while still continuing to produce more in his popular series of books on computing, which have now been translated into several different languages. Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer) - between them they also foster three disabled children.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 3235 KB
  • Print Length: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Nixon Publishing (22 Dec 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006PIW4IM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #66,167 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Good CSS & CSS3 primer 10 Feb 2012
By A. Wiersch - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a good book to get started with CSS, including CSS3. It's good for beginners or for those who already know some CSS but want to learn more, especially some new CSS3 properties. However, if you are an 'advanced' user wanting greater depth & detail, then you'll probably want something 'beefier', but the price is right for what you get.

The course is divided into 16 lectures, with later lectures concentrating on the new CSS3 properties. The later lectures discuss the new CSS3 attribute selectors, backgrounds, borders, box-shadows, colors, gradients, opacity, text effects & web fonts, and transformations (2D and 3D). However, some CSS3 things are not included - like speech, generated content, and navigation. Part of the reason that some things were left out is because they are in a greater level of flux and have less browser support.

I found the later chapters more interesting, especially the ones on 2D and 3D transitions, mostly because I was unfamiliar with those new CSS3 capabilities.

There are some examples which I thought were very useful, and you can download example files from the web.

Also talked about are the proprietary properties that are needed for support in more browsers (those beginning with -moz-, -webkit-, -o-, etc.). Unfortunately you'll probably find that Internet Explorer is the browser that seems to have the least support for a lot of new CSS3 stuff, but the book includes some ways to simulate some CSS3 effects. Hopefully IE 10 will change a lot of that.

NOTE: This review is based on an updated book that corrects some errors and misprints that were in previous versions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Very Clear and Complete Book 2 April 2012
By Earl - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I thought the book did a very good job explaining CSS and providing real practical examples. It made me feel more than comfortable enough to start working with CSS.

I'm not clear what the other reviewer is talking about, this book contained all of the required information to follow along with it, assuming you're literate.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A printout of a web-based tutorial 19 Feb 2012
By John R Alden - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I found this book very disappointing. It is clearly a printout of an online course, in black and white at that. It doesn't stand alone. You must have access to the webpages he references for the book to be useful. There are many places where, instead of describing features, he gives you examples which you can only see by displaying the source of a web page (for which he kindly provides a picture!). The section on colors and opacity starts with a display of "the color wheel displaying both hue and saturation" in black and white! The rest of the chapter is similarly full of gradients and various interesting color effects, illustrated in black and white. The author clearly knows his stuff, but print, especially without color, isn't an appropriate medium for this content.

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