| CSS: The Missing Manual |  | Author: David Sawyer McFarland
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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ISBN: 0596802447
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Publication Date: August 24, 2009
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Product Description
Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site's appearance. You can tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you how to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Witty and entertaining, this second edition gives you up-to-the-minute pro techniques. 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 rollover effects
- Create effective photo galleries and special effects, including drop shadows
- Get up to speed on CSS 3 properties that work in the latest browser versions
- Build complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs
- Style web pages for printing
With CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, you'll find all-new online tutorial pages, expanded CSS 3 coverage, and broad support for Firebox, Safari, and other major web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8. Learn how to use CSS effectively to build new websites, or refurbish old sites that are due for an upgrade.
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 Still have not received book after 32 days. August 24, 2010
jcanty
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book still has not arrived after 32 days!!! My class starts tomorrow and now I will have to order a second book from another book seller!!
 Kindle Version Has Problems August 16, 2010
Eric Weiss (Alexandria, VA USA)
As my title says, I bought the Kindle version.
For some reason the formatting is very lame and distracting. Here's an example:
nested inside (as in
Figure 3-6
), you can use
There's no obvious reason why this can't fit onto one line, but all the hyperlinks seem to be on an independent line. Then there's
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONMaking List Look
Great
Well, that sure doesn't look great.
I like my Kindle DX, but some of the books that I've purchased have formatting problems that remind me of bad scans that a weak program tried to convert into text that won't reformat for a different page size. Now sometimes, this isn't a big deal,but when it's a consistent issue, you have to wonder how professional the publisher is. In this case, the problem seems to be Kindle/Amazon, not the original publisher.
Also, I found this a slow moving explanation. Maybe on paper it would have made more sense.
 Almost perfect technical book July 23, 2010
Data Virtue (cincinnati, oh)
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.
CSS LIVES July 20, 2010
S. A. Brown (poughkeepsie, ny)
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.
Something For Both the CSS Beginner and Those With Experience July 5, 2010
Rod Wright (Ellicott City, MD USA)
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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