The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design

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The 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



About the Author
Craig was trained in the fine arts, but later became immersed in digital media, showing videos and multimedia work at leading international media festivals. The web caught his attention in 1995, and he now divides his time between creating websites, writing for various web and design-related magazines, and working on his eclectic Veer Musikal Unit audio project. Information, downloads, music, movies and dancing trees can be found at his website, Snub Communications (www.snubcommunications.com). Craig is a co-author of the original Foundation Dreamweaver MX from friends of ED, and also Dreamweaver MX Design Projects, from glasshaus.

Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS (Mastering) by Virginia DeBolt

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This unique approach to learning HTML and CSS simultaneously shows you how to save time and be more productive by learning to structure your (X) HTML content for best effect with CSS styles. You’ll discover how to create websites that are accessible to the widest range of visitors, build CSS for print and handheld devices, and work with a variety of CSS-based layouts. Using the latest standards, best practices, and real-world examples, this book offers you with a thorough grounding in the basics and also includes advanced techniques.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #73816 in Books
Published on: 2007-02-20
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
600 pages
Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
A Unique Approach to Learning HTML and CSS Simultaneously.

Master Hpertext (or Extensible Hypertext) Markup Language (HTML/XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and You're well on your way to creating modern, accessible Websites. This comprehensive guide offers integrated instruction in both. You'll save time and get more productive by learning to structure your (X) HTML content for best effect with CSS styles, from the start.

Using the latest standards, best practices, and real-world examples, web expert Virginia DeBolt offers a thorough grounding in the basics plus advanced techniques for those who want to improve their current skills or learn more modern ways of working. You'll find out how to create websites that are accessible to the widest range o visitors, learn the latest specs, build CSS for print and handheld devices, and work with a variety of CSS-based layouts.

COVERAGE INCLUDES:
Writing XHTML and CSS using correct syntax
Working with fixed and fluid two- and three-column layouts
Styling links as CSS popups
Creating and applying styles to make an accessible form
Mastering hierarchy, alignment, focal point, and other design concepts
publishing and testing your pages
Working bloat-free with CSS in Dreamweaver®
Weaning yourself from table-based layouts and out-of-date coding

FEATURED ON THE CD
The companion CD includes all the materials you need to work through each chapter, as well as sample site materials, Style Me test pages, bonus color palettes, and trial software.
A Complete Solution for Integrating (X) HTML and CSS from the Start
Covers the Latest Standards from the World Wide Web Consortium
Full Coverage for Users of All Skill Levels
Classroom Ready! Full Courseware and Instructor Support Materials Included
Gain Inspiration from Top-notch Examples of Real Websites Built Using CSS

About the Author
Virginia DeBolt grew up in southern Colorado, where her father often took her fishing and hunting. She can still walk off with a teddy bear from the shooting gallery at the fair. After receiving her college degrees, she taught in public schools in Colorado and New Mexico. Her first computer was a Commodore 64. The schools were using Apple IIe computers and Virginia quickly became the “computer person” in the school.
Her first four books were written to teach writing using cooperative learning and are still in print and selling well. She graduated to a blazingly fast 8 MHz Mac Classic to celebrate her status as a working writer.
In the mid-1990s, she moved to Texas and took some classes with the notion of finding work as a technical writer. One class was in HTML, and Virginia’s life was never the same after that. HTML took over her thoughts, dreams, conversation, time, and energy. Soon she had a contract tech writing job by day, and a part time gig teaching HTML at the community college by night. The dining room of her home was filled with office tables and a web of wires between two Macs, two Windows boxes, assorted scanners, printers, and Zip drives. In the free time between her two jobs, she was making web sites for fun.
The HTML teaching job sent her searching in places like SXSW Interactive conferences for answers and ideas. But what she heard in the conference halls and what she saw in the books that were available to teach HTML and Dreamweaver were 180 degrees apart. In 2001, she started writing reviews of these books on her blog at www.webteacher.ws.
The Web Teacher blog brought her to the attention of computer book publishers. After contributing to books written by other people, she decided to write her own book to promote her theory that HTML and CSS should be taught as integrated skills, not as two distinct and separate ideas. The first book was Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn (Wiley, 2004). The second is the one you hold in your hand now.
Oh, her latest computer? There’s just one. A Mac laptop that needs almost no wires strung about and does Windows on demand.
Customer Reviews

simple to understand full of information
Clear and concise, this book has taken me from knowing nothing about web design to publishing a site of my own in 3 weeks. While there is much more to learn, my site is running smoothly and 100% W3C Strict compliant.

Great Book!
this book is the greatest that i have read ever.
though that i have a little expiriance with HTML and CSS , but this book give you the actually way to write your code only at XHTML and CSS , with a great way of explaining .

Excellent resource for modern, standards based design
Virginia DeBolt's newest book is an excellent resource for modern, standards based design. It combines the depth of a well qualified instruction with lively, real world examples of practical web applications. This book will save you so many hours of work and research by showing you how techniques have evolved and how each application meets the various standards. Webpage structure (including columns), various navigation methods, working with images and picture galleries, banners, links, blogs, and much more are all discussed. Also included (in color) are inspirational website designs showing these modern CSS based techniques.

In the course of designing our numerous large websites for parent support I have read over a dozen design and coding books on html and css, and this is one book I return to over and over again.

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, and Hacks by Rachel Andrew

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A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for professionals and novices, that can be used both as a tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical reference book to common problems, solutions and effects. The Question and Answer format makes it easy for readers to solve their problems and learn more about common pitfalls and workarounds. CSS has been growing steadily in its adoption as a technology. CSS gives the developer complete control over how an HTML page looks without using cumbersome HTML tags- truly separating content from presentation. Many major organizations have been adopting CSS technology e.g. www.wired.com.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #325604 in Books
Published on: 2004-11-01
Format: Illustrated
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
376 pages
Customer Reviews

excellent!!!
A great helper book for all those little things that might happen to go wrong.

Great way to learn CSS
I really like the Q&A format of this book. It's a great way to learn about CSS. I've read 80% of the book so far and think the author explains things very well. She makes it easy to understand when and why to use some CSS rules in each task.

very usefull and to the point
This book, on CSS, is written very clearly with very good illustrations of the poblem as well as the solution.
It is oraganized as a sort of an FAQ, and gets to the point very quickly.
Also it pays an equal amount of attention to the most frequently used browsers anno 2007.
It has chapters for novices on CSS, and it has chapters for advanced users.
For me it worked best to read it from cover to cover, and from there on use the index if I'm running into a CSS problem.