Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design (Wrox Professional Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Christopher Schmitt, Todd Dominey, Cindy Li, Ethan Marcotte, Dunstan Orchard, Mark Trammell
Publisher: Wrox
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Edition: 2
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Pages: 301
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ISBN: 047017708X
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780470177082
ASIN: 047017708X
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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Product Description
Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition
Focusing on the best-practices aspect of web development, this full-color book is revised to reflect the changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published. Featuring examples from real-world web sites, each chapter provides easily digestible CSS tips and techniques that were used for a specific site. The chapters document the designer's process from start to finish and provide insight as to how the designers overcame each site's unique set of challenges as well as ways they would have done things differently.
Offering a hands-on look into designing standards-based, large-scale, professional-level CSS web sites, this unique book presents understandable solutions to common problems and offers an intelligible approach to effectively developing CSS-enabled designs at a professional level.
What you will learn from this book
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Best practices for using XHMTL with CSS
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How to orchestrate a new look and feel for a blog
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The ins and outs of designing a site that is relied upon by millions of users
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Techniques for including drop shadows, drop-down menus, and embedded Flash(r) content into a web site
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Tips for tackling browser-compatibility issues as well as developing functional navigational structures
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Ways to customize a web site through CSS coding
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How to create HTML e-mail templates, basic HTML table layouts, and how CSS plays a role in both
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The importance of grids and layouts in design
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who are looking for a clear understanding of how to use CSS to create professional-level web sites.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Download Description
"* Written by leading CSS authors and a team of professional programmers and designers, this book details the techniques of top CSS designers and showcases the real-world Web sites that made them famous
* Each chapter focuses on one designer and a Web site that he or she worked on, documenting the process from start to finish, showing how each designer overcame the site's unique challenges, and explaining what they would have done differently
* After completing Beginning CSS (0-7645-7642-9), readers will turn to this book for more know-how and insights in designing large-scale, professional-level, standards-based CSS Web sites"
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 CSS Best Practices October 4, 2007
This book is a little out of date because it does not cover Internet Explorer 7.0. However, it does teach you all the CSS techniques that have been used for the past few years and points you to many resources for more information. I only read this book to review the best practices for using CSS and XHTML.
The Whole Picture January 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had learned CSS back in 98, when everything was new, and most of what CSS was MEANT to do just didn't work yet. Move forward 9 years and guess what? It still doesn't! However, this book helped me to expand my CSS understanding and do a lot more cool stuff than I used to be able to do. This is an industry that is ever changing and it pays to keep learning.
 mediocre, opinionated, and somewhat boring January 13, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is not a reference book nor a how to book. It describes web sites & how those sites tackled their display problems. If you have to buy 3 css books, I'd recommend this order:
1. OReilly - CSS The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer (great reference)
2. Any good CSS cookbook
And, if you really need a 3rd book after the 2 above... consider this book along with any of the several others out there.
PS: I am not a fan of MS either, but if I'm paying good money for a book, I don't want to be continually reminded by the authors of how poor of a product ms puts out. The poor quality of MS Web technologies is well known.
 Why is the Download So incomplete March 20, 2006
17 out of 27 found this review helpful
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2. Poor reproduction of graphics. In some cases, it's difficult to see what the authors are trying to represent. Several errors in Chapter 3 ("Blogger: Rollovers and Design Improvements") make the examples very confusing. The book's editing left much to be desired--I found quite a few errors throughout the boo
I agree completely and WHY WEREN'T THE GRAPHICS INCLUDED IN THE COD E DOWNLOAD? That should have taken no additional effort and made everything a lot clearer!
I buy lot's of WROX books, so let's keep after them when they shortchange us like this.
Rodney's CSS Review February 25, 2006
12 out of 28 found this review helpful
I loved this CSS book. By the time that I finished with chapter 2, I successfully, applied the information to my website. This book, Professional CSS, was a much needed reference guide to helping me spruce up my website.
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