- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: SitePoint; Fourth Edition edition (Mar 22 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0987153021
- ISBN-13: 978-0987153029
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
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- #18 in Books > Computers & Internet > Home Computing > Internet > Web Browsers
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The CSS3 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best-practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The fourth edition of this best-selling full-color book has been completely revised and updated to cover newer techniques enabled by CSS3 and HTML5, and more recent trends in web design, such as responsive design.
It's the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS available, with over 100 tutorials that show readers how to gain more control over the appearance of their web pages, create sophisticated web page navigation controls, and design for alternative browsing devices, including phones and screen readers.
The CSS code used to create each of the components is available for download and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.
About the Author
Rachel Andrew is the Director of edgeofmyseat.com, a Web solutions company based in the UK. She is a member of the Web Standards project, serving on the Dreamweaver Task Force.
Rachel's writing credits include: Dreamweaver MX Design Projects (Apress), Fundamental Web Design and Development Skills (glasshaus) and HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition (SitePoint).
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COLLECTING CSS3!!, April 3 2012
By John R. Vacca "Tech Write Independent Reviewer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights (Paperback)
Are you a web designer and developer who has seen the cool CSS designs out there, but is short on time to wade through masses of theory and debate in order to create a site? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Rachel Andrew, has done an outstanding job of writing a 4th edition of a book that thoroughly investigates the world of CSS3.Author Andrew, begins with a quick CSS tutorial for anyone who needs to brush up on the basics of CSS. Next, the author covers techniques for styling and formatting text in your documents; font sizing, colors, and the removal of annoying extra whitespace around page elements. Next, she looks at the ways in which you can combine CSS and images to create powerful visual effects, such a placing background images on elements, applying gradients, making elements transparent, and positioning text with images, among other topics. Then, the author shows you how to create navigation CSS style. She continues by showing you how to apply tables to create attractive and usable tabular data displays. Next, the author shows you how to create forms with CSS that are attractive and usable. Then, she shows you how to troubleshoot CSS bugs; as well as, looking at methods for integrating CSS3 selectors and HTML5 elements in older browsers. The author continues by showing you how to master the art of positioning. Finally, the author explores a range of CSS layout techniques that can be combined and extended upon to create numerous interesting page formations, including different column configurations and print-ready stylesheets.
This most excellent book was designed to investigate many of the features of which are supported by the major browsers. More importantly, the author looks at how to make these new techniques work in older browsers.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Fire bush does it again!!!, May 12 2012
By Stan - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights (Paperback)
I read this book from cover to cover in a couple a days. I'm a backend programmer, but frequently I'm left with front-end work so I needed to get up to speed on the latest CSS best practices.I didn't realize how much of CSS3 is supported by modern browsers. I will be using this book whenever I need to do any front-end work in the future. Very easy read and solid information no doubt.
And let's just say I like having this book by my side at night. Those stone cold blue eyes with red hair match the sitepoint colors perfectly. And give me a warm fuzzy for sure. This one's for you, fire bush.
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Good collection of scenarios, May 18 2012
By Brett Merkey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights (Paperback)
This is a pretty simple book, easy to get through. The book's web site has the code for download, so pages with structural code can often be skipped because it is easier to inspect the code directly in tools like Dreamweaver and Homesite rather than printed in black and white.Most of this collection of code and user scenarios are the practical ones that people in this field would often encounter. I very much like that there is a chapter on displaying tabular data. Many Web coding books skip this as boring but, for many of us in the industry, it is our bread and butter! Andrew gives some good examples of how you can use CSS declarative code to do things that are normally done with script. This is good. However, I was also disappointed in this chapter because so many needs and expected features of data display are left out, such as non-scrolling column headers and special arrangements for print stylesheets.
This is a good book for beginners and intermediate level.
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