Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web - Softcover

Lie, Hakon Wium; Bos, Bert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020141998X ISBN 13: 9780201419986

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1997

Synopsis

Provides information on using CSS to create Web sites, covering such topics as working with type, spacing and positioning, printing, and integrating CSS with XML documents.

About this title

About the Author

Håkon Lie is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab where he worked in the Electronic Publishing group. After working as a reseacher for Norwegian Telecom for some years, he entered into the cradle of the Web, the WWW project of the CERN Physics Laboratory in Geneva. In July 1995 he started the W3 Consortium's technical activities Europe and is now responsible for Style Sheets within W3C. Bert Bos completed his Ph.D. in Groningen, The Netherlands, on a prototyping language for graphical user interfaces. He then went on to develop browser software and support for humanities scholars, before joining the W3C at INRIA/Sophia-Antipolis in October 1995. He is now working on HTML internationalization issues and style sheets. 020141998XAB04062001

From the Back Cover

by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos of the World Wide Web Consortium, offers a powerful and manageable way for authors, artists and typographers to create much-requested visual effects that will put aesthetics to the forefront of the Web. CSS enjoys wide industry backing, and is supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer with other implementations soon to follow.

Written by the world authorities this book will be the Web designers' definitive guide to Cascading Style Sheets.

Features: an a brief HTML tutorial to bring newcomers to Web design up to speed when to use CSS and when to use other methods how to create and maintain a Web site with a consistent style that display well on all screens how traditional print-based typograhy is expressed in CSS a complete description together with examples of all CSS functionality a rich set of figures and rendering examples including sixty four pages of full color challenges of when moving from static paper to a dynamic screen, and how CSS supports authors in this transition how to create and maintain a Web site with a consistent style when to use CSS and when to use other methods how to write Web documents that display well on all screens

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Reviews

Cascading style sheets (CSS) were developed by Lie and Bos for the World Wide Web Consortium to provide authors with the tools to manage the aesthetics of web site design. For now, they are not in wide distribution and only the most recent browsers can make use of them. But those who spend a weekend with this book will recognize their importance and become converts. Those who have to deal with a great deal of information for many sources and make sure it all looks good and consistent will see that CSS is an elegant answer. And this book is the best introduction to the next innovation on the web.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 020141998X
• ISBN 13: 9780201419986
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 279