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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll
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Author: Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll
Publisher: friends of ED
Pub. in: February, 2006
ISBN: 1590596145
Pages: 280
Measurements: 8.8 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01016
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-1590596142
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Great book. This covers more advanced topics like hack management and teaches frontend developers to work around known browser bugs. Andy Budd does a great job explaining the "hasLayout" issues and proposes workable solutions. One thing of interest was the remote rollovers that use CSS - the CSS version of image maps.
He also does a great job keeping "code" consilidation as an ongoing, underlying premise throughout the book. He uses a few examples of combining classes, which help keep the (X)HTML and CSS bloat factor down to a minimum.
The idea of fluid or liquid layouts is taken one step further than other books on CSS. He focuses on making all elements within the site fluid, not just the text and parent containers. With the methods taught in this book, your images will also respond to the size of the browser window. Nice touch.
He discusses advanced topics in a manner that are easily digestable. We saw a British Invasion in the 60's with the Beatles. It looks like we may have another British invasion now - in the world of web design and web standards. He is one of many outstanding developers/authors from England who are rising up in the web arena.
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Web developer or designer.
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Andy is an internationally renowned web designer, developer and weblog author based in Brighton, England. Andy specializes in building attractive, accessible, and standards complaint web solutions. Andy enjoys writing about web techniques for sites such as digital-web.com and his work has been featured in numerous magazines, books, and websites around the world.
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, and does his best to keep his highly popular blog (collylogic.com) updated with noise about web standards, music, film, travels, and more web standards.
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This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS developmentall you need to work your way up to CSS professional. You'll learn how to:
1. Plan, organize, and maintain your stylesheets more effectively
2. Apply the secrets of liquid, elastic, and hybrid layouts
3. Create flickr-style image maps, remote rollovers, and other advanced CSS features
4. Lay out forms using pure CSS
5. Recognize common browser bugs, and how to fix them
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. By bringing all of the latest tips, tricks, and techniques together in one handy reference, this book demystifies the secrets of CSS and makes the journey to CSS mastery as simple and painless as possible. While most books concentrate on basic skills, this one is different, assuming that you already know the basics and why you should be using CSS in your work, and concentrating mainly on advanced techniques. It begins with a brief recap of CSS fundamentals such as the importance of meaningful markup, how to structure and maintain your code, and how the CSS layout model really works. With the basics out of the way, each subsequent chapter details a particular aspect of CSS-based design. Through a series of easy-to-follow tutorials, you will learn practical CSS techniques you can immediately start using in your daily work. Browser inconsistencies are the thorn in most CSS developers' sides, so we have dedicated two whole chapters to CSS hacks, filters, and bug fixing, as well as looking at image replacement; professional link, form, and list styling; pure CSS layouts; and much more. All of these techniques are then put into practice in two beautifully designed case studies, written by two of the world's best CSS designers, Simon Collison and Cameron Moll. Summary of Contents:
Chapter 1: Setting the Foundations
Chapter 2: Visual Formatting Model Recap
Chapter 3: Background Images and Image Replacement
Chapter 4: Styling Links
Chapter 5: Styling Lists and Creating Nav Bars
Chapter 6: Styling Forms and Data Tables
Chapter 7: Layout
Chapter 8: Hacks and Filters
Chapter 9: Bugs and Bug Fixing
Case Study 1: More Than Doodles
Case Study 2: Tuscany Luxury Resorts
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C. FISCHER (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-29 00:00>
Before I bought this book, I thought I was pretty good at css. I bought it just to fill in many of the little gaps in my knowledge. Some of the 'hows' and 'whys'. There were a few things I knew I didn't understand, like positioning and fully understanding what "cascading" is. So when I bought it I thought it would be just a good reference and gap filler, but as I started reading I realized how much I was lacking in my CSS knowledge!
This book goes over everything you could possibly imagine. After reading it I understand what the browser is thinking as it parses your css and html files. It also uses diagrams and example images to show you how things work. It explains all the advantages to using CSS instead of hard coded markup.
This book goes through all the styles in CSS 2.0, all the browser differences (although it does need to be updated to include IE 7), and gives example websites.
One of the reasons I chose this book was because of the glowing reviews it received. It was absolutely worth it!
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Mike Wilcox (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-29 00:00>
If you are a web developer or designer and haven't read this book yet, you are cheating your employer for the extra time you spend, and you are cheating yourself. Doing web dev without the knowledge of this book is like repairing an automobile with a pair of pliers. It's not the easiest way to get things done.
The mystery of why some divs don't hold their size, why they don't stay in place, how to get divs to wrap, and then more importantly, stop wrapping.
Yes, you'll learn how to make web 2.0 looking tabs, and rounded corner boxes. But you can find that code on the Internet. You get this book so you can understand HOW that stuff works.
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James Morrison (MSL quote), Canada
<2007-06-29 00:00>
From novice to intermediate, this book encompasses the basic to advanced features of CSS design. It covers the major browsers, shows issues associated with each and offers one or more solutions to solving them. As a veteran web developer/designer I bought this book as a refresher for my CSS skills but actually learned a myriad of new techniques which I can take to my job. I've passed this book along to my junior designers and we all use it as our main reference for CSS goodies.
Good job Andy!
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Hugh Watkins (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-29 00:00>
I'm not done with this book, but I feel I have learned a great deal about the do's and don't of css design. I have this book and CSS the missing manual; they are both very good and would recommend them both.
This book focuses on good CSS design, it is not really a CSS reference manual there are many other books that do that well. What this book does is show you what works in real life and what doesn't.
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