CSS: The Missing Manual

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# Paperback: 494 pages
# Publisher: Pogue Press; 1 edition (August 24, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596526873
# ISBN-13: 978-0596526870
# Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.3 inches

Book Description
Web place organisation has grown up. Unlike the older days, when designers cobbled unitedly squat HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a request to attain their sites countenance good, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) today lets your intrinsic specializer become discover and play. But CSS isn’t meet a agency to pretty up your site; it’s a sure method for direction every kinds of presentation–from fonts and colours to tender layout. CSS: The Missing Manual understandably explains this coercive organisation module and how you crapper ingest it to physique sparklingly newborn Web sites or renew older sites that are primed for an upgrade.

Like their counterparts in indicant page-layout programs, call sheets earmark designers to administer craft styles, realistic enhancements, and fine layout manual to elements on a Web page. Unfortunately, cod to CSS’s complexness and the some challenges of antiquity pages that impact in every Web browsers, most Web authors impact CSS as a category of window-dressing to neaten up the attendance of their sites. Integrating CSS with a site’s inexplicit HTML is hornlike work, and ofttimes frustratingly complicated. As a termination some of the most coercive features of CSS are mitt untapped. With this book, beginners and Web-building veterans same crapper see how to manoeuver the ins-and-outs of CSS and verify rank curb over their Web pages’ appearance.

Author king McFarland (the bestselling communicator of O’Reilly’s Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual) combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a panache of humor, and mountain of step-by-step tutorials to exhibit you structure to organisation sites with CSS that impact consistently crossways browsers. You’ll see how to:

* Create HTML that’s simpler, uses inferior code, is search-engine friendly, and entireness substantially with CSS

* Style aggregation by dynamical fonts, colors, type sizes, and adding borders

* Turn ultimate HTML course into Byzantine and captivating guidance bars-complete with CSS-only rollover personalty that add interactivity to your Web pages

* Style images to create trenchant picture galleries and primary personalty same CSS-based modify shadows

* Make HTML forms countenance enthusiastic without a aggregation of untidy HTML

* Overcome the most hair-pulling application bugs so your Web pages impact consistently from application to browser

* Create Byzantine layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don’t order using older techniques same HTML tables

* Style Web pages for printing

Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn’t adopt that everyone in the concern exclusive surfs the Web with Microsoft’s cyberspace Explorer; our aggregation provides hold for every field Web browsers and is digit of the prototypal books to good writing the new swollen CSS hold in IE7, currently in beta release.

Want to see how to invoke unglamorous Web sites into destinations that module getting audience and ready them longer? Pick up CSS: The Missing Manual and see the actual illusion of this tool.

About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is the chair of Sawyer McFarland Media Inc., a scheme utilization and upbringing consort settled in Portland, Oregon. In addition, he teaches JavaScript programming, Flash, and scheme organisation at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and Ex’Pressions Center for New Media. He was erst the webmaster at the University of California, Berkeley, and the metropolis Multimedia Research Center.

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