Product Description

A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for
professionals and novices, that can be used both as a
tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical
reference book to common problems, solutions and effects.
The 2nd edition is now full-color throughout and is
completely updated and revised with the latest tips &
tricks.

This book will show you how to:

Construct robust CSS layouts that work every time.
Create sleek drop-down menus using only CSS.
Build a professional tabbed navigation system.
Replace image-based navigation with low-fat CSS lists.
Design smarter, more usable CSS-flavored web forms.
Use rounded corners minus the bloated HTML.
Allow your visitors to select their preferred look and feel.
Let the W3C validator do your debugging.
Reduce the burden of site maintenance and updates.
... along with 92 other solutions to common questions and
problems.

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is
ideal for experienced Web designers who would like to add
sparkle to their existing designs, as well as newcomers who
want to learn Web design the right way the first time.

The book is written so that it can be read cover to cover,
or referred to like a cookbook with 101 different recipies
for your Website. It's written in an easy-to-follow,
consistent format that's well illustrated with plenty of
full color screenshots and code examples, providing quick
visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style
texts, then the illustrations and examples throughout this
book will suit you

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48516 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Digital Web Magazine
If you’ve been struggling with building Web sites using Web standards and CSS, you really must buy this book.

Lowter.com
The CSS Anthology is a great book to get someone started on actually implementing CSS.

Synopsis
A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for professionals and novices, that can be used both as a tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical reference book to common problems, solutions and effects. The 2nd edition is now full-color throughout and is completely updated and revised with the latest tips & tricks. This book will show you how to: Construct robust CSS layouts that work every time. Create sleek drop-down menus using only CSS. Build a professional tabbed navigation system. Replace image-based navigation with low-fat CSS lists. Design smarter, more usable CSS-flavored web forms. Use rounded corners minus the bloated HTML. Allow your visitors to select their preferred look and feel. Let the W3C validator do your debugging. Reduce the burden of site maintenance and updates...along with 92 other solutions to common questions and problems. The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is ideal for experienced Web designers who would like to add sparkle to their existing designs, as well as newcomers who want to learn Web design the right way the first time.The book is written so that it can be read cover to cover, or referred to like a cookbook with 101 different recipies for your Website.

It's written in an easy-to-follow, consistent format that's well illustrated with plenty of full color screenshots and code examples, providing quick visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style texts, then the illustrations and examples throughout this book will suit you

Customer Reviews

Who is this book written for?
Before buying this book consider carefully if it is right for you.
If you haven't any grounding in CSS then it isn't a great way of learning: it doesn't walk you through the details of the system, so you will learn by random example - a poor way to learn.
If you are reasonably adept at CSS then the book isn't advanced enough. Case in point: the book steers clear of introducing CSS for full drop down menus - it CAN be done (it is difficult and is very effective for search engine optimisation processes). So, it's not exactly an advanced 'cookbook' to dip into.
So, we guess if you're a middling developer who doesn't want to spend time figuring out how CSS actually works, and are happy to copy and paste fairly simple examples, then this might be the book for you.
However, if you are a beginner, OR looking for more in depth information, then instead go for the excellent "CSS - the missing manual", which will walk you through everything from scratch, give you an excellent grounding in CSS (which you will need if you want to do anything other than copy and pastes of other people's code) AND contains as many examples to base your designs on as this book does anyway (the only downside is that it doesn't match the beautiful print and layout of the Sitepoint books).

Essential for any would-be CSSers
Having spent many years building sites using non-CSS markup, I've been aware that my skills are increasingly out of date, but have been scared off CSS by its scary reputation (plus my lazy unwillingness to unlearn one markup style and learn a new one!).
After wasting a few weeks with hopeless online tutorials, I bought The CSS Anthology and within a couple of days was building simple, effective pages without resorting to table structures.
That's how good this book is: the author asks and answers the real-world questions that any web editor/developer cares about. The result is that you're so busy solving dozens of small problems (eg:how to create a 3-column layout) that you're soon learning the principles and practicalities of CSS without even realising it. Best of all, the book contains code fragments (downloadable from a dedicated website) so you can easily create working solutions before you get the confidence to tweak them.

Very, very useful book - with a small qualification.
I thoroughly recommend this book as a practical guide to CSS, but personally it could do with just a little more theory (despite the author's comment about it being a practical book) then it would be just perfect.

I should mention that my background is as a programmer in COBOL, C++, VB and other deskop languages, so anyone else with a similar background beware that important syntax considerations are left teasingly unsaid, with the result that I'll be copying loads of her examples but not getting really creative yet because my theoretical understanding is lacking.