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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780321293916
ISBN: 0321293916
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 441
Publication Date: November 19, 2006
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press
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These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives you control over the appearance of your Web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. It lets you easily make minor changes to a site or perform a complete overhaul of the design. In CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training, you’ll start with a review of CSS essentials, learn to build effective navigation and page layouts, and then move on to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. The included CD-ROM is loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, and real-world projects take you through the Web page creation process, one step at a time. Over 60 Step-by-Step Tutorials
• Using CSS and XHTML together
• Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade
• Creating CSS navigation
• Laying out pages with CSS
• Adding colors and backgrounds
• Setting typography
• Creating white space, margins, and borders
• Creating tables
• Styling for print
• Plus much more!
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those that are complaining about IE not being used in this book are nuts. IE sucks... but, if you must use IE and want this book... go here to download new exercise files made for IE users...
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Takes you though the thought and coding process of CSS. Although a very good book I would recommend "Eric Meyer on CSS" and "More Eric Meyer on CSS". This is a good book, but I will give it to a friend to help them get stared on learning CSS. I would use other books for long term reference.
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I was surprised at the depth. Hands on training books are perceived as starter books. However, in this book there are any less-than-obvious tidbits for front-end developers - even those that already use CSS all the time and may think themselves past such a book. I teach an adult ed class on css and always look for lessons I can share with my students. I recommend this book to them because it has modern concepts sprinkled with insights that even an experienced coder may not have thought of. The chapters each are build around a single concept, and they explore permutations of that concept in examples the student builds using a provided web page that is completely ready, minus the code they are studying in that chapter. The last chapter puts it all together and lets the student build the page they have been working on the whole book pretty much from scratch. The IE 'haslayout' problem another reviewer pointed out IS huge - it it the reason I give this 4 instead of 5 stars, but that is ... Read More
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This is a great book for someone learning CSS or for someone who might have skipped a few basics when they learned CSS originally. Eric Meyer is pretty much the most famous author of CSS books. His books rarely miss.
The book is very high quality as far as being easy to read. It uses high quality paper and print. The examples are in full color and are very sharp. This book is definitely easy on the eye balls - major kudos to whoever handled this part of the process.
One odd thing is that the book smells really good! I buy lots of books and this is the only one that has an odor. I don't know what smell it is but it smells a little like fresh pears. Great for long flights because it doubles as an air freshener.
Unfortunately, like most css books, the examples often do not work for all browsers. Most of these good authors are in love with their Macs so much that they test only on an operating system and browser that less that 5% of people use. This book ... Read More
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As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially given the subject is CSS).
The author provides a fictional site (all codes and video tutorials included in the CD), from which he well explains the various aspects of CSS over 10 chapters, the last of which summarizes everything that you will have learned by the end. I especially liked how he had separated the unnecessary parts into an external stylesheet so that a reader can discard them and will know exactly what he has just modified actually does to a site. The author also breaks ... Read More
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