Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design - Softcover

Pouncey, Ian; York, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470891521 ISBN 13: 9780470891520

Publisher: Wrox Pr Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Completely updated material and new examples show you what CSS can do

With the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and other browsers released, CSS is more essential than ever. This beginner guide demonstrates how cascading style sheets can be used to define styles to items in Web pages, rather than format each item individually. Each lesson in this full-color book has been methodically revised to be more concise and efficient, making your learning experience as productive as possible.

• Covers the latest in CSS, including the new features of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome
• Reviews the vast improvements to mobile browsers and how CSS can work with them
• Provides helpful examples and walks you through real-world solutions to common hurdles
• Discusses embedded fonts, compatibility tables, and cross-browser bug scenarios

Beginning CSS, Third Edition gets you completely up to date so that you can start using CSS in the newest Web and mobile browsers today!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Build extraordinary web sites with CSS in the newest browsers

With Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and other browsers debuting new versions, an updated resource on building web sites with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is critical. This new edition of a perennial classic responds to that need and gets you quickly up to speed on using CSS to create appealing web sites in a professional way. Completely updated with new examples, this full-color book has been carefully revised based on reader input and now provides an even more concise and streamlined introduction to CSS. Veteran authors Ian Pouncey and Richard York cover how to write CSS from scratch like a professional, and discuss the many improvements to CSS that have emerged since the previous edition.

Beginning CSS, Third Edition:

• Dissects the various elements that make up a style sheet

• Demonstrates how to style and manipulate the display of text

• Zeroes in on how to use background images appropriately

• Examines the box model and how it is used to lay out content

• Addresses a variety of ways to position content and explains how to create a complete layout

• Reviews advanced techniques such as styling for mobile devices, using custom fonts, and applying gradient backgrounds with CSS

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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About the Author:

Ian Pouncey is a web developer living in London, England, and working for the BBC. He has been working on the web for over 11 years, producing web sites from small sites for local businesses to the latest version of the Yahoo! home page. He is a member of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Working Group and a web accessibility advocate.

Richard York is a web developer at Westlake Design, a web design and development firm, and an active contributing member of the PHP community. In addition to writing previous editions of Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, he is also the author of Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wrox Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470891521
• ISBN 13: 9780470891520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432