Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781590599075 ISBN: 1590599071 Label: friends of ED Manufacturer: friends of ED Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 600 Publication Date: November 12, 2007 Publisher: friends of ED Sales Rank: 173248 Studio: friends of ED
Product DescriptionThe Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book—it will tell you all you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details. It is designed to be invaluable to you, whatever stage you are at in your career, with a mixture of practical tutorials and reference material—beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep returning to the book again and again to recap on techniques they maybe haven't used for a while, or look up properties, attributes and other details. It is destined to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on your desk. It starts off by giving a brief introduction to the internet, and the broad area of web design, before diving straight in to HTML and CSS basics, reusing code, other best practices. It then focuses on all the most important areas of a successful web site—typography, images, navigation, tables, layouts, forms and feedback (including ready made PHP scripts for you to use,) and browser quirks, hacks and bugs. The book is completely up-to-date, covering support of the newest standards in all the latest browsers, including IE 7 and Firefox 2. The last chapter of the book provides several case studies for you to dissect and learn from, including all the most popular web site archetypes—a blog, a store front, a corporate home page, and an online gallery. Then the book is rounded off with several detailed reference appendices covering CSS, HTML, Color references, entities, and more, meaning that any details you need to look up are close at hand.
This book will teach you everything you need to know to create professional CSS and HTML web sites
Up to date &emdash; covering support of the newest standards in all the latest browsers, including IE 7 and Firefox 2
Includes practical real world tutorials, essential reference sections, and case studies.
What you'll learn
The basics of HTML and CSS web design
How to implement effective layouts, tables, images, navigation, forms and typography on web sites
How to deal with cross browser issues, including quirks, bugs, and hacks on IE 7 (and older versions,) Firefox, Safari, Opera, and all other major browsers.
How to make sure your sites are both usable and accessible
How to implement several different styles of web front-end, through several complete case studies, including a blog, a store front, and an online gallery
Detailed References are also provided so you don't need to learn every little detail of CSS and HTML
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - web designing with css
Excellent book, after reading and experimenting with css I have been able to convert a site to use css. Did not know anything about css until this book. Gives great insite to web design using css. Worth every penny.
Rating: - CSS and HTML Web Design
A bit complicated for a newbe to web design but I am getting there. Its well laid out and seems up todate.
Rating: - Definately worth purchasing.
The short review: I downloaded this off a torrent; I was so impressed with it, that I'm buying it hard copy. It's definately one of those books that works well for a quick reference.
The long review: This book probably isn't for absolute gurus, simply because there's too much explanation. I'd probably recommend "The Ultimate CSS Reference" if you've already got a firm foundation and just need a quick reference that you can flip through faster than you can load a pdf from your flash ... Read More
Rating: - Great book.
This book is a good guide. It is comprehensive while not being overly technical. I got the book to use as a desk reference. The book starts out with the basics and does a good job building on that knowledge and bringing things together in later chapters.
Rating: - The tool to go from Transitional to Strict
Craig Grinnell's book is excellent and helpful in any sense. If you want to really dive into CSS and HTML and how to structure a website according to standards this is the book to buy. The book is well organized; the text is smooth and the information valuable. This is a book I am relying on to enhance my ability to structure websites and it is working.
- web designing with css
- CSS and HTML Web Design
- Great book.
