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Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design 2nd Edition
What the Book Covers: After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use Cascading Styles Sheets to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional CSS Second Edition gives developers a peek into the process of the best CSS designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them famous.
Each
chapter focuses on one designer and a Web site they worked on. Each chapter documents designers' processes from start to finish and how they overcame each site's unique set of challenges.
In each chapter are easily digestible demonstrations of CSS tips and techniques used for the site for advanced CSS developers. At the end of each chapter, designers provide greater insight into their process by talking about what they would have done differently.
By creating a more hands-on, exploratory look into designing large-scale, professional-level standards-based CSS Web sites, Professional CSS Second Edition is aimed at being the book readers naturally gravitate towards after going through Beginning CSS.
CONTENTS:
1. Best Practices for XHTML and CSS.
2. Google's Blogger.com: Rollovers and Design Touches.
3. The Classic U.S. PGA Championship Web Site.
4. The University of Florida's UFL.edu.
5. Stuff and Nonsense Ltd.: Strategies for CSS Switching.
6. Adventures of CindyLi.com: Blog Modifications.
7. AIGA Cincinnati: HTML Email Templates.
8. Professional CSS Book Site: Using Transparent PNGs.
9. Building CSS Layouts.
Appendix A. HTML 4.01 Elements.
Appendix B. Rules for HTML-to-XHTML Conversion.
Appendix C. CSS 2.1 Properties.
Appendix D. CSS Troubleshooting Guide.
Index.
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