| Overview
Web site design has grown up. Unlike the old days, when designers
cobbled together chunky HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a
prayer to make their sites look good, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
now lets your inner designer come out and play. But CSS isn't just
a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling
all kinds of presentation--from fonts and colors to page layout.
CSS: The Missing Manual clearly explains this powerful
design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web
sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.
Like their counterparts in print page-layout programs, style
sheets allow designers to apply typographic styles, graphic
enhancements, and precise layout instructions to elements on a Web
page. Unfortunately, due to CSS's complexity and the many
challenges of building pages that work in all Web browsers, most
Web authors treat CSS as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the
appearance of their sites. Integrating CSS with a site's underlying
HTML is hard work, and often frustratingly complicated. As a result
many of the most powerful features of CSS are left untapped. With
this book, beginners and Web-building veterans alike can learn how
to navigate the ins-and-outs of CSS and take complete control over
their Web pages' appearance. Author David McFarland (the bestselling author of O'Reilly's
Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual) combines crystal-clear
explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of
step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS
that work consistently across browsers. You'll learn how to: Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine
friendly, and works well with CSS
Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding
borders
Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation
bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity
to your Web pages
Style images to create effective photo galleries and special
effects like CSS-based drop shadows
Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML
Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages
work consistently from browser to browser
Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column
designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML
tables
Style Web pages for printing
Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn't assume that
everyone in the world only surfs the Web with Microsoft's Internet
Explorer; our book provides support for all major Web browsers and
is one of the first books to thoroughly document the newly expanded
CSS support in IE7, currently in beta release. Want to learn how to turn humdrum Web sites into destinations
that will capture viewers and keep them longer? Pick up CSS: The
Missing Manual and learn the real magic of this tool.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionWeb site design has grown up. Unlike the old days, when designers cobbled together chunky HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a prayer to make their sites look good, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) now lets your inner designer come out and play. But CSS isn't just a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling all kinds of presentation--from fonts and colors to page layout. "CSS: The Missing Manual" clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade. Like their counterparts in print page-layout programs, style sheets allow designers to apply typographic styles, graphic enhancements, and precise layout instructions to elements on a Web page. Unfortunately, due to CSS's complexity and the many challenges of building pages that work in all Web browsers, most Web authors treat CSS as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites. Integrating CSS with a site's underlying HTML is hard work, and often frustratingly complicated. As a result many of the most powerful features of CSS are left untapped. With this book, beginners and Web-building veterans alike can learn how to navigate the ins-and-outs of CSS and take complete control over their Web pages' appearance. Author David McFarland (the bestselling author of O'Reilly's Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual) combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. You'll learn how to:
- Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS
- Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders
- Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages
- Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows
- Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML
- Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser
- Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables Style Web pages for printing
Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn't assume that everyone in the world only surfs the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer; our book provides support for all major Web browsers and is one of the first books to thoroughly document the newly expanded CSS support in IE7, currently in beta release. Want to learn how to turn humdrum Web sites into destinations that will capture viewers and keep them longer? Pick up CSS: The Missing Manual and learn the real magic of this tool. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 85 reviews. Unbelievably Helpful, 2009-06-03 Reviewer rating: Long story short: I went from a tables maniac to become a savvy CSS web designer in two weeks. Super easy, super thorough. Very good to go through chapter by chapter, but now I also realize that it's extremely easy to use as a reference book as well.
This book has gotten me the job that I work at now. Two thumbs up. | I Love this manual - it taught me CSS, 2009-05-30 Reviewer rating: I'm a beginning programmer and purchased CSS: The Missing Manual because I needed a solid tutorial that would walk me through the basics. This was that book. Well written and easy to follow with lots of exercises, it brought me from the beginner level up to the mid-level in terms of using CSS.
It is not a reference manual nor is it intended to be one, but I haul it out every time I write code. I refer to it often because it is that good. Excellent follow-up book after you complete Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, which I think should be everyone's first book for HTML/CSS. | David McFarland's books are a joy to read, 2009-05-27 Reviewer rating: I just want to add to the high rating of this book. It deserves every star it gets. I have read it cover to cover almost twice and loved it. I have taken some web classes, but This is how I learned CSS. David knows exactly what to say and when to say it.
After reading this I purchased his JavaScript book and was really glad I did. David McFarland has a great talent for writing and explaining things in a very clear way. I don't see any reason to get any other CSS book besides this one. | Finally! I've made the leap to CSS, 2009-05-22 Reviewer rating: I can't add much to what everyone else has already said. This is the first time I've read a book from the Missing Manual series. I don't know whether to credit the author or the series but this is a great book. It was exactly the right speed for me, an old time html curmudgeon who's been wanting to catch up to current standards whenever browser compatibility was ready to handle it. The only criticism I might have is that the third section, the chapter on layout, might have been moved to the front and explained before all the nitty-gritty text formatting was but other than that, I love this book! | There must be something better, 2009-05-05 Reviewer rating: There are many good ideas in the book - But he jumps around too much and there are partial solutions, meaning... He'll give you:
.label { float:left;
width: 400px;
text-align: right;
clear: left;
Margin-right: -35px;
margin-top: 5px;}
But not show how it's written with the html.
It's a supplemental book at best (for me). I expected more for the $$. |
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