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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions |
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 Description
This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS development--all you need to work your way up to CSS professional.
You'll learn how to:
Plan, organize, and maintain your stylesheets more effectively
Apply the secrets of liquid, elastic, and hybrid layouts
Create flickr?-style image maps, remote rollovers, and other advanced CSS features
Lay out forms using pure CSS
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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