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81. | CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions By: Andy Budd; Cameron Moll; Simon Collison Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS development–all you need to work your way up to CSS professional.
While CSS is a relatively simple technology to learn, it is a difficult one to master. When you first start developing sites using CSS, you will come across all kinds of infuriating browser bugs and inconsistencies. It sometimes feels like there are a million and one different techniques to master, spread across a bewildering array of websites. The range of possibilities seems endless and makes for a steep and daunting learning curve.
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82. | Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns By: Michael Bowers Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 25-APR-2007 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns
Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns is a reference book and a cookbook on how to style web pages using CSS and XHTML. It contains 350 ready–to–use patterns (CSS and XHTML code snippets) you can copy and paste into your code. Each pattern can be combined with other patterns to create an unlimited number of solutions.
Each pattern works reliably in all major browsers without the need for browser hacks.
The book's layout, with a pattern's example on the left page and its explanation on the right, makes it easy to find a pattern and study it without having to flip between pages. The book is...
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83. | The CSS Anthology, Second Edition By: Rachel Andrew Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 24-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 02-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The CSS Anthology, Second Edition 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 covering everything from CSS layouts to rounded corners and tabbed navigation systems....
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84. | Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 By: Stephanie Sullivan; Greg Rewis Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 02-APR-2008 Insert Date: 18-APR-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 In Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3, authors Stephanie
Sullivan and Greg Rewis demonstrate how to use Dreamweaver CS3 and
CSS together to create highly individualized, standards-based
layouts. Through hands-on projects with visuals, the book gives
readers an in-depth understanding of Dreamweaver's 32 CSS-based
layouts (new in Dreamweaver CS3) and their application, enabling
every user of Dreamweaver to learn CSS effectively and easily....
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85. | Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide, Second Edition By: Charles Wyke-Smith Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 19-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide, Second Edition Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs
that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It
accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout
information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you
everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web
development work, from the basics of marking up your content and
styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts
without the use of tables. Learn to create interface components,
such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical
buttons, using only...
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86. | CSS Pocket Reference, Third Edition By: Eric A. Meyer Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 05-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS Pocket Reference, Third Edition
They say that good things come in small packages, and it's
certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference.
Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading
Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little
book covers the most essential information that web designers and
developers need to implement CSS effectively across all
browsers.
Inside, you'll find:
A short introduction to the key concepts of CSSA complete alphabetical reference to all CSS 2.1 selectors and
propertiesA chart displaying detailed information about CSS support for
every style element...
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87. | By: Dan Cederholm Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 09-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2007 Slots: 1.0 | No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site
may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and
reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding.
In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire,
Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building
designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user
control--key components of every sucessful site. Each chapter
starts out with an example of an unbulletproof site one that
employs a traditional HTML-based approach which Dan then
deconstructs, pointing out its limitations....
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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 30-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Releasing CSS
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In an industry that communicates with terms such as "Browser Hell"
and "browser wars," a web designer can be excused for having some
anxiety over Microsoft's recent upgrade of Internet Explorer 6
(IE6) to Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Web designers should ask the
following questions:
</p><ul><li><p>What problems does IE6 possess and what fixes does IE7
provide?</p></li><li><p>What part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification
does IE7 for Windows support?</p></li><li><p>How can web designers work around any problems that exist
within IE7's support for...
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89. | HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML & CSS Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 22-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML & CSS For readers who want to design Web pages
that load quickly, are easy to update, accessible to all, work on
all browsers and can be quickly adapted to different media, this
comprehensive guide represents the best way to go about it. By
focusing on the ways the two languages--XHTML and CSS--complement
each other, Web design pro Patrick
Griffiths provides
the fastest, most efficient way of accomplishing specific Web
design tasks. With Web standards best practices at its heart, it
outlines how to do things the right way from the outset, resulting
in highly optimized web pages, in a quicker,...
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90. | Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design By: Andy Clarke; Molly E. Holzschlag; Dave Shea Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 15-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 16-DEC-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design As the Web evolves to incorporate new
standards and the latest browsers offer new possibilities for
creative design, the art of creating Web sites is also
changing. Few Web designers are experiences programmers, and as a
result, working with semantic markup and CSS can create
roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the
resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting
exceptional design to clients and employers, without compromising
efficient workflow, and the challenge deepens for those working in
a fast-paced environment. As someone who understands...
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91. | Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 07-NOV-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS Cookbook, Second Edition As the industry standard method for enriching the presentation
of HTML-based web pages, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow you to
give web pages more structure and a more sophisticated look. But
first, you have to get past CSS theory and resolve real-world
problems.For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each
project, CSS Cookbook provides hundreds of practical
examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to
format your web pages. Arranged in a quick-lookup format for easy
reference, the second edition has been updated to explain the
unique behavior of the latest...
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92. | CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition By: Eric A. Meyer Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 07-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you
with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a
thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover
Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new
edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated
content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a
document's structure from its presentation. The benefits of this
can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance
than HTML and also saves time -- you...
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93. | Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS: The Missing Manual
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...
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94. | Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design By: Eric A. Meyer Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 28-JUN-2002 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design There are several other books on the market that serve as
in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None,
however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples
to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing
with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully
crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular
methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed
to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus
information is be posted....
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95. | Visual Quickstart Guide DHTML and CSS By: Jason Cranford Teague Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 20-FEB-2004 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Quickstart Guide DHTML and CSS If you can't afford to let the Web get ahead of you, you can't
afford not to have this guide. In this best-selling Visual
QuickStart Guide, you'll find all the friendly, step-by-step
instructions you need to start using DHTML and CSS to add visually
sophisticated, interactive elements to your Web sites. Completely
updated to cover the new browsers, standards, and DHTML and CSS
features that define the Web today, the one thing that
hasn't changed in this edition is its task-based visual
approach to the topic.
Using loads of tips and screenshots, veteran author Jason
Cranford Teague covers a...
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96. | Sams Teach Yourself CSS 24 in Hours By: Kynn Bartlett Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 23-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 27-JUL-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself CSS 24 in Hours You know you should use cascading style
sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS?
Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a
carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not
only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart
decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support
and intended effects. You'll cover standards compliant CSS, with an
emphasis on providing both a theoretical understanding and
practical experience at implementing CSS.
In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn...
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97. | HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS By: Dan Shafer Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 01-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS This book is for Web Developers who want to develop or
migrate existing websites from using table-based layouts to
using Cascading Style Sheets, which allows for faster page
downloads, easier maintainence, faster Website re-designs
and better search engine optimization.
HTML Utopia covers all aspects of using
Cascading Style Sheets in Web Development, and is a
must-read for Web Developers designing new sites or
upgrading existing ones to use CSS layouts.
This book includes one of the most comprehensive CSS2
references on the market. Jeffrey Zeldman, web design guru
and co-founder...
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98. | Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes By: Russ Weakley Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 07-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes The short, focused lessons presented in
Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly
understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately
apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a
well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his
ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even
inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the
essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by
the most common browsers. Once you master the basics,
Weakley will also take you inside positioning,
troubleshooting CSS, and...
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99. | By: Dan Cederholm Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 28-JUL-2005 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2005 Slots: 1.0 | No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web
site is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the
widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured
it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author
and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10
strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide
flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of
every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out with an example
of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof”
concept—an existing site that employs a traditional...
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100. | Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 25-APR-2005 Insert Date: 06-AUG-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition In this updated edition to their original best-selling
classic, the co-creators of CSS clearly, logically, and painlessly
explain the hows and whys and ins and outs of the visual formatting
language that is their gift to us. The Web would be a poorer place
without Messieurs Bos and Lie. Your shelf will be richer for the
addition of this book.
Rely on it. Study it. Savor it.
The Indispensible CSS Tutorial and Reference—Straight from
the Creators of CSS
Direct from the creators of CSS, this is the definitive guide to
CSS, today's indispensable standard for controlling the appearance
of...
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