Product Description

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of the most important technologies on the web today. They give web developers the power to style their web sites so those sites are usable, compact, good looking, consistently displayable, and quick and efficient to change if so desired.

There are many books out there on CSS, but Beginning CSS Web Development is different—it doesn't waste time discussing theory, and it delves straight into the practical matter. It provides you with what you need to know, faster. It is also completely up to date, covering the most modern CSS standards and design techniques.

In addition to the essential CSS basics, this book covers advanced techniques like accessibility, hacks, and filters. The book concludes with a case study, and features a CSS reference section that allows you to look up required syntax as quickly as possible.

Summary of Contents

    PART 1 - Get to Know CSS


    Getting Started
    Core Concepts of CSS
    CSS Building Blocks
    Text
    Color, Backgrounds, and Images
    Lists
    Links
    Tables and Definition Lists
    Forms


    PART 2 - Logical Layouts


    Layout Basics
    Classic Layouts
    Layout Manipulation
    The Journey from Layout to Template
    Usability and Accessibility Enhancements
    Tips, Tricks, and Troubles
    Case Study: The Dead Goods
    CSS Reference

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11816 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-24
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Synopsis
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of the most important technologies on the web today. They give web developers the power to style their web sites so those sites are usable, compact, good looking, consistently displayable, and quick and efficient to change if so desired. There are many books out there on CSS, but Beginning CSS Web Development is different—it doesn't waste time discussing theory, and it delves straight into the practical matter. It provides you with what you need to know, faster. It is also completely up to date, covering the most modern CSS standards and design techniques. In addition to the essential CSS basics, this book covers advanced techniques like accessibility, hacks, and filters. The book concludes with a case study, and features a CSS reference section that allows you to look up required syntax as quickly as possible.Summary of Contents PART 1 - Get to Know CSS Getting Started Core Concepts of CSS CSS Building Blocks Text Color, Backgrounds, and Images Lists Links Tables and Definition Lists Forms PART 2 - Logical Layouts Layout Basics Classic Layouts Layout Manipulation The Journey from Layout to Template Usability and Accessibility Enhancements Tips, Tricks, and Troubles Case Study: The Dead Goods CSS Reference

About the Author
Simon is lead web developer at Agenzia, and has worked on numerous web projects for record labels, high-profile recording artists, and leading visual artists and illustrators, including The Libertines, Black Convoy, and Project Facade.

Simon also oversees a production line of business, community, and voluntary sector web sites, and passionately ensures everything he builds is accessible and usable, and complies with current web standards.

Simon regularly reviews CSS-based web sites for stylegala.com, and does his best to keep his highly popular blog at collylogic.com updated with noise about web standards, music, film, travels, and more web standards.

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Customer Reviews

The best beginners CSS book out there.
My CSS roadmap has consisted of the following three books:


1. Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional
2. CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
3. Pro CSS & HTML Design Patterns

I have also ploughed through the O'reilly books (useful but dry) and a few others, but the above three stood out in my mind as the most useful.

Beginning CSS stands out because it is really useful right from the word go. Its examples are well documented and it is easy to read. By the time I had finished it I was already designing my first website in a standards-based fashion. I had done sites before that, but they were a complete mess (both front and back end!) in comparison to my output after reading this book.

CSS makes web design so much easier. It gives your site a consistent look and feel and makes for a rapid development cycle. IF YOU USE IT PROPERLY!!!

This book shows you how to do just that. It is only an introduction, but it will put you on a very firm foundation for the other books you will need to consume.

If you continue your reading with the other two books I mentioned, you will be on a very firm CSS footing and your websites will be a lot more professional as a result. Supurb.

Excellent guide to getting started with CSS
One of the most clearly written IT books I have ever come across. Assuming the reader has a basic knowledge of HTML this book does a really good job of explaining how to use CSS and gives some really good practical examples. A very well thought out and presented publication. It might sound like a small thing but it is really useful is that with the examples the same content is used each time and you can then see how modifying the style sheet the content style changes. Many books confuse the issue by having a unique example for each item and you can't see a comparison, this method makes the changes obvious.

Would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn CSS.

BRILLIANT!
I am getting back into Web design, after experimenting with HTML, back when I was at school. Now I have lots of free time, I am getting back into web design.

CSS, is just brilliant, easy, effective, and this book, is just IDEAL, for someone who has used basic HTML knowledge, as it is assuming that you can already develop a HTML site.

A highly recomended book. :D