Product DescriptionThese hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives you control over the appearance of your Web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. It lets you easily make minor changes to a site or perform a complete overhaul of the design. In CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training, you’ll start with a review of CSS essentials, learn to build effective navigation and page layouts, and then move on to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. The included CD-ROM is loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, and real-world projects take you through the Web page creation process, one step at a time. Over 60 Step-by-Step Tutorials • Using CSS and XHTML together • Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade • Creating CSS navigation • Laying out pages with CSS • Adding colors and backgrounds • Setting typography • Creating white space, margins, and borders • Creating tables • Styling for print • Plus much more!
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Rating: - A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners.
As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially ... Read More
Rating: - A true tutorial about CSS
There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field.
Rating: - Good for beginning CSS users
This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it.
Rating: - lackluster and thin
This is my beginner's opinion and experience with this book.
Open an html file in a text editor and do this. Now refresh your web browser and see what happens? Wow!
This book is full of just that. It just barely goes into explanation of exactly why you are doing what you are doing, and that really there is another external CSS style sheet that is working in the background of the embedded code you are made to write in the exercises. So in reality it's not so easy. I found it confusing ... Read More
Rating: - How is this possible?
I'm am very disappointed that the authors have not provided fixes to the CSS that is in this book. How can someone be teaching a book on CSS and that CSS not work in the most widely used browser, IE? I prefer Firefox myself but but I know any CSS layout I create will have to work in IE, no matter what my preferences. So how can I trust this book to teach me CSS that works for designing web layouts? I see that Eric Meyer has other products for CSS layout design but I would never consider buying one due to my ... Read More
- A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners.
- A true tutorial about CSS
- lackluster and thin
