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Pro CSS Techniques: Real World CSS Techniques for Real World CSS Professionals (Expert's Voice) (Paperback)

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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: APRESS (30 Nov 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 159059732X
ISBN-13: 978-1590597323
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm

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Pro CSS Techniques is the ultimate CSS book for the modern web developer. If you've already got web design and development basics under your belt, but want to take your knowledge to the next level and unleash the full power of CSS in your web sites, then this is the book for you. It is a collection of proven CSS techniques that you can use daily to get the most out of the time you spend on your projects, from start to finish. Every topic is presented in an informative tutorial style, with each point backed up by several real-world examples and case studies. Authors Jeff Croft and Bryan Veloso cover all the essential areas of CSS development, like browser support (including IE7), hacks and filters, code management, advanced layouts and styling, typography, and much more. CSS levels 1, 2, and 3 are given a full treatment. The book also includes several reference sections that allow you to look up details quickly and easily. The book aims to help you in four areas: maintainability, compatibility, reusability, and practicality. You'll be able to keep your code organized and easy to maintain, avoiding browser issues before they crop up (or hacking around them when absolutely necessary). You'll learn to get the most out of your styles with inheritance, and by using techniques you can build on. And you'll learn to use what works in the real world, without getting too caught up in ideals, because you can always optimize later.

About the Author

Jeff Croft is a web and graphic designer focused on web
standards--based development who lives and works Lawrence, KS. As the
senior designer at World Online, Jeff works on such award-winning
standards-based sites as Lawrence.com and ljworld.com. Jeff also runs a
popular blog and personal site at jeffcroft.com, where he writes about many
topics, including modern web and graphic design.

In addition to his work with World Online, Jeff has also worked at two
major universities in an effort to bring web standards to the education
sector, and completed many freelance and contract jobs for varying clients.
When he's not hunched over a computer, Jeff enjoys photography, music,
film, television, and a good night out on the town.

Ian Lloyd runs Accessify.com, a site dedicated to promoting web
accessibility and providing tools for web developers. His personal site
‘Blog Standard Stuff‘, ironically, has nothing to do with standards for
blogs (it's a play on words), although there is an occasional
standards-related gem to be found there.

Ian works full-time for Nationwide Building Society where he tries his
hardest to influence standards-based design ("to varying degrees!"). He is
a member of the Web Standards Project, contributing to the Accessibility
Task Force. Web standards and accessibility aside, he enjoys writing about
his trips abroad and recently took a ‘year out' from work and all things
web (but then ended up writing more in his year off than he ever has). He
finds most of his time being taken up by a demanding old lady (relax, it's
only his old Volkswagen camper van).

Ian recently wrote his first book for SitePoint entitled ‘Build Your First
Web Site the Right Way with HTML and CSS‘ (in which he teaches web
standards-based design to the complete beginner).

Music, design, typography, web standards, South Florida beaches. What could
these things possibly have in common? Dan Rubin, that's what…er, who. From
vocal coaching and performing to graphic design and (almost literally)
everything in between, Dan does his best to spread his talent as thin and
as far as he possibly can while still leaving time for a good cup of tea
and the occasional nap.

His passion for all things creative and artistic isn't a solely selfish
endeavor either—you don't have to hang around too long before you'll find
him waxing educational about a cappella jazz and barbershop harmony,
interface design, usability, web standards, and which typeface was on the
bus ad that just whizzed by at 60mph.

Dan has been known to write the occasional entry on his blog,
superfluousbanter.org (you might even find a podcast or two if you poke
around enough), and his professional work can be found at his agency's
site, webgraph.com.

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3.0 out of 5 stars There are better books out there..., 13 Sep 2007

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Having read many of the CSS books on the shelf I became intrigued to see a new offering sub-titled "Real-world CSS techniques for real-world CSS professionals!" Many of the popular books currently available are aimed at beginners and intermediates, and carry pretty much the same content. Once you've read two or three of these and put it into practice you can soon become competent at producing clean, semantic CSS & XHTML layouts to web standards. The desire is to then seek some more advanced techniques to develop your skills, hence my interest in this book.

Much of the book covers topics I've read in others already, but there are some areas of interest. However, some of these techniques it states don't work on Internet Explorer versions 6 or 7! Being a `real-world CSS professional' I know that despite web designers and developers hating IE with a passion it is still the most popular browser and curse as much as you please we still need to design for it. In time, obviously, IE will support CSS3 (we hope) and many of our prayers will be answered, but look how long it took Microsoft to upgrade from IE6 to IE7 and even then it didn't fully support CSS2!

Now if I was to strip out these sections together with the content I've already digested from other books I'm not really left with much to justify the cover price. I feel a little disloyal to Jeff Croft and Dan Rubin as I'm subscribed to both their blogs, but I would recommend CSS Mastery as being a far more useful book for the intermediate web designer.

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