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CSS: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
Autor (Libros): David Sawyer McFarland
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Product Description
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.
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Almost perfect technical book, 2010-07-23
Por Data Virtue(Sean Anderson)
I've read thousands of technical texts in my life and this is by far one of the best I've ever seen. You can tell David was pumped about writing this book. You can't really put a price on the information that is delivered via straight-up advice and training from a top notch professional web developer.
I did not like or use the tutorials while reading the book though. I had several websites that needed brought out of table hell so I redeveloped those sites in the course of this study. I used Notepad++ as a development environment and Firefox as my test & debug browser with Firebug Addon. That setup allowed smooth development though I'm looking forward to Dreamweaver.
Tons of clear information on XHTML, CSS and real world development issues.
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CSS LIVES, 2010-07-20
Por S. A. Brown(range_rider)
I've researched quite a few books on CSS throughmy local Library. I basically flagged (postie notes) my Library volume. Then I went shopping on Amazon and discovered a "LIKE NEW" edition for about third of the cost of a new book.
I jumped on the deal. If you were to buy one book to learn and use CSS styles - this would be it. It is as comprehensive as the information on CSS info web sites. The tutorials never lead you astray.
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Something For Both the CSS Beginner and Those With Experience, 2010-07-05
Por Rod Wright
I discovered the Missing Manual series of books a number of years ago and have now made them a standard purchase whenever I purchase new software. They are all helpful, easy to read, and easy to understand.
I began designing web sites over 10 years ago when I planned my own ([...]). Since then I've worked on a couple others, and have always used Microsoft FrontPage. Several years ago I became aware of a new method of designing web sites that involved CSS. At the time, I didn't need it because FrontPage took care of all of my needs.
However, I have now switched to a macbook and have migrated everything off of Windows with the exception of FrontPage. In my search for a new web site design tool, I came across Dreamweaver. While searching for a Missing Manual for Dreamweaver CS5, I ran across CSS The Missing Manual.
I love reading, and frequently read magazines, fiction, biographies, and, yes, manuals. With most Missing Manuals, I search the Contents or Index for what I need, read, and go on about my business. However, since CSS is completely new to me, I decided to start reading CSS The Missing Manual from page xiii. I'm having troubles putting this book down!
The book is well organized into five parts, including the appendices. Part 1 gives you the basics of CSS, and quite frankly, you could easily begin working on basic styling without reading any farther, but you'd be missing a lot. Part 2 begins the detail of various components of CSS, while Part 3 talks about page layout, and part 4 covers some advanced CSS techniques. Part 5 is the appendices.
Every chapter includes CSS examples, multiple diagrams, references to outside resources, and ends with a multi-page tutorial with step-by-step instructions to accomplish the chapter's topics. Chapter 7 includes a wonderful diagram depicting the differences between margins, borders, padding, and content. There are even references to later portions of the book where you can read more detail about topics that are being introduced earlier in the book. A common thread is here's enough to get you started, and then later, if you're interested, here's a lot more detail on how to use this particular CSS component.
I use yellow stickies (aka post-it notes) to mark points in books that I feel will be important reference points for me. This book is plastered with yellow stickies!
I would highly recommend this book to both the beginner and the experienced. I truly believe everyone interested in CSS can find something valuable in CSS The Missing Manual.
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CSS: The Missing Manual, 2010-06-09
Por C. Clark
This is an awesome book It's very step by step and really makes you pick up the concept very fast.
I started with very little, almost no, knowledge of CSS and am now writing code almost from scratch (still using the book as a cheat sheet) and am extremely happy with it so far.
I am only half way through and already feel like I've learned most of what I got the book for. Looking forward to finishing it and really feeling accomplished.
The best book of this type I've ever read.
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Great Reference, 2010-06-01
Por Alex Aminian
I just purchased this book for our S/W Development group in the company I work for and I am very impressed by the amount of practical information covered in this book. I am a s/w engineer and not a web designer but I had to play that role for a recent project and this book has been extremely helpful. The only bad thing about this book is that the illustrations are not in color.
