Professional CSS : Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design.
Title:
Professional CSS : Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design.
Author:
Schmitt, Christopher.
ISBN:
9780470383100
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents:
Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Second Edition -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Whom This Book Is For -- How This Book Is Structured -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Chapter 1: Best Practices for XHTML and CSS -- Shoehorning Structure and Presentation Together -- Learning to Love Your Markup -- CSS: Adding a Layer of Style -- Understanding the Cascade -- Putting Theory into Practice -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Google's Blogger.com: Rollovers and Design Touches -- Interviewing the Designer -- CSS-Enabled Rollovers -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Classic U.S. PGA Championship Web Site -- Developing the Drop-Shadow Effect -- Creating CSS Drop-Down Menus -- Engineering Web Standards-Compliant Flash Embedding -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The University of Florida's UFL.edu -- Looking Back at UF's First Web Site -- Defining the Site -- Creating a Main Navigational Structure -- Making the Supplementary Navigation -- Revisiting Flash Embedding -- Looking for Missteps -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Stuff and Nonsense Ltd.: Strategies for CSS Switching -- Laying the Foundation -- CSS Switching -- The Mechanics: How It's Supposed to Work -- The Reality: How It Can Work Today -- CSS beyond the Browser -- Stuff and Nonsense: Building a Better Switcher -- Meet the Designer: Andy Clarke -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Adventures of CindyLi.com: Blog Modifications -- Blogs -- CSS: Cindy Li Starts to Blog -- Design Elements -- Creating the Site -- Setting the Speech Bubble -- Check Box Styling -- Summary -- Chapter 7: AIGA Cincinnati: HTML Email Templates -- Dealing with HTML Email -- Producing the Template -- Embedding Styles -- Using Preflight for HTML Email -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Professional CSS Book Site: Using Transparent PNGs -- PNGs and Browser Support.
Using Alpha-Transparency -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Building CSS Layouts -- On Grids and Layouts -- Doing What Print Can't -- CSS Positioning: The Fundamentals -- Building Three Columns: Laying the Foundation -- Setting Some Boundaries: The max-width Property -- Summary -- Appendix A: HTML 4.01 Elements -- Appendix B: Rules for HTML-to-XHTML Conversion -- The XML Declaration -- Picking Your Comfort Level -- Rules for XHTML -- Appendix C: CSS 2.1 Properties -- Appendix D: CSS Troubleshooting Guide -- Validation -- Manipulating the Elements -- Bringing in Outside Help -- Index.
Abstract:
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 Best practices for using XHMTL with CSS How to orchestrate a new look and feel for a blog The ins and outs of designing a site that is relied upon by millions of users Techniques for including drop shadows, drop-down menus, and embedded Flash® content into a web site Tips for tackling browser-compatibility issues as well as developing functional navigational structures Ways to customize a web site through CSS coding How to create HTML e-mail templates, basic HTML table layouts, and how CSS plays a role in both 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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