Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
Author(s): Richard York (Author)
Publisher: Wrox
Publication Date: 4 Jan. 2005
Language: English
Print length: 648 pages
ISBN-10: 0764576429
ISBN-13: 9780764576423
Book Description
This book is the perfect introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Web markup standard that allows Web designers and developers to easily make a style change to one CSS template and then change formatting across hundreds–or thousands–of pages
Covers the current CSS standard versions (CSS 1 and CSS 2) with notes and comments where appropriate on the CSS 3 standard in development
Includes quick reference on CSS at the end of the book as well as integrated reference coverage throughout
Teaches by using an example–oriented approach and includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with sample solutions provided in the appendix
Editorial Reviews
Review
perfect for people who are starting to use CSS ( oraclehome.co.uk, October 2005)
From the Back Cover
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a standard for Web site presentation that allows Web developers to define styles for all the visual aspects of a Web document. This example–packed book provides you with necessary information that will enable you to combine CSS with HTML, XHTML, or XML to create rich, aesthetically powerful designs.
You′ll start by reviewing the background of CSS, followed by a discussion of the tools required to create and test Web pages, a look at the basic syntax used in CSS, and an examination of how CSS comes together with markup to create a Web page. Then you′ll examine how CSS controls different aspects of markup in a Web document. Along the way, you′ll end each chapter with exercises and sample solutions that will help you grasp the CSS level 1, 2, 2.1, and 3 specifications.
What you will learn from this book
How to choose the right document for a project
Why the Document Type Declaration (DTD) is important to the CSS designer
Ways to manipulate the presentation of fonts
Ways to manipulate text and fonts
The four different types of positioning: static, relative, absolute, and fixed
Various ways of styling for tables, XML, print, and handheld devices
Techniques to make a CSS design compatible with Internet Explorer
Who this book is for This book is for beginning Web developers and designers who want to use CSS for better, faster design and markup. Basic familiarity with HTML is helpful, but not required.
About the Author
Richard York is a freelance web designer and a participant in the open source community. After attending website and graphic design courses at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana, Richard continued a course of self–study which involved mastering design of web sites using web technologies like CSS, XHTML, and PHP. When not writing for Wrox or building a website, Richard works on open source webmail applications written for PHP PEAR, an open source repository of PHP applications. Richard also enjoys writing poetry, playing music, and painting. He maintains a website at http://www.smilingsouls.net that exhibits his personal and professional interests.
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