Product Description

More Valuable CSS Projects from the Master -- Eric Meyer!
Builds on the success of Eric Meyer on CSS (073571245X).
Four-color design makes the step-by-step CSS solutions to common design challenges easy to follow.
Allows readers to sit with Eric Meyer to not only understand how to write the CSS code, but also why the code works. Just like its predecessor, this book takes a hands-on approach to teaching CSS. Through ten all new projects, Eric Meyer continues to instruct CSS devotees on how to make CSS work to solve their design challenges. Projects include converting and existing page to use CSS-P instead of tables and styling a variety of pages, such as- a photo gallery, financial report, list-based menu, tab interface, weblog, and irregular edged text.
Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993. He is the principal consultant for Complex Spiral Consulting. A graduate of and former Webmaster for Case Western Reserve University, Eric is also an Invited Expert with the W3C CSS+FP Working Group and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's CSS1 Test Suite. He often speaks at conferences on the subjects of CSS, Web design, Web standards, Web browsers, and how they all go together.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17236 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
Just like its predecessor, this book takes a hands-on approach to teaching CSS. Through ten all new projects, Eric Meyer continues to instruct CSS devotees on how to make CSS work to solve their design challenges. Projects include converting and existing page to use CSS-P instead of tables and styling a variety of pages, such as: a photo gallery, financial report, list-based menu, tab interface, weblog, and irregular edged text.

About the Author
Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards.Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the visual designer and campus Web coordinator for Case Western Reserve University Web site, where he also authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was project coordinator for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History combined with the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography (ech.cwru.edu), the first example of an encyclopedia of urban history being fully and freely published on the Web.
Author of Eric Meyer on CSS- Mastering the Language of Web Design (New Riders), Cascading Style Sheets- The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly & Associates), and CSS2.0 Programmer's Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), as well as numerous articles for the O'Reilly Network, Web Techniques, and Web Review, Eric also created the CSS Browser Compatibility Charts and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's official CSS Test Suite. He has lectured to a wide variety of organizations, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New York Public Library, Cornell University, and the University of Northern Iowa. Eric has also delivered addresses and technical presentations at numerous conferences, among them the IW3C2 WWW series, Web Design World, CMP, SXSW, the User Interface conference series, and The Other Dreamweaver Conference.Eric lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe, and is the host of "Your Father's Oldsmobile," a Big Band-era radio show heard weekly on WRUW 91.When not otherwise busy, he is usually bothering his wife Kat in some fashion.

Customer Reviews

Good read
This is really just a comment about the Mac Users Beware review found here...

This person is somehow blaming either Mac Safari or the book for their problems, that is rubbish, Safari has THE BEST support of CSS of any browser ever made and is the only browser to pass the ACID test.

This person must realise that it is their own poor coding that is causing the problems, not Meyers or Safari...

Sorry, just get a bit peeved when I read total rubbish like that. I use Safari every day and have been developing websites with CSS for 7 years on the Mac and wouldnt have it any other way!

Great book
Great follow up to the first book to help advance your real world CSS skills.

CSS from the master
It's no secret that Meyer is one of the world's leading authorities on CSS, if not the most accomplished expert.

In addition to his knowledge, he writes very well, and the book is formatted so that it's easy to see where he is taking each design, step by step.

This is NOT a book for beginners. Although he does explain what he's doing with clarity, it does assume some knowledge of CSS. That's not a criticism, just something to be aware of; if you're new to CSS, try another book.

One of the highlights for me is Eric's design for CSSZenGarden.