Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge - Softcover

Holzschlag, Molly E.

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9780782141849: Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782141846 ISBN 13: 9780782141849

Publisher: Sybex Inc, 2003

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CSS is finally supported by all modern web browsers, empowering Web designers to do what they've been hungering to do for years: control layout more precisely, use color more effectively, and expand typographic options beyond the frustrating limitations of the past. So where to begin? Where can you get design-focused instruction on CSS while learning the technical details?

Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge is precisely the resource you've been looking for. Written by renowned web designer Molly Holzschlag, this book begins with an in-depth look at structured markup, both XHTML and CSS. It then explains how to use CSS to achieve specific design goals involving typography, color, layout, and more. Finally, it deconstructs a series of impressive designs, showing you how the authors used CSS to maximize their efficiency and get exactly the right effect.

Key topics you'll learn about include:
* Writing valid XHTML
* Authoring effective CSS rules
* Working with classes and IDs
* Validating your CSS
* Creating great typographical designs with CSS
* Using CSS for backgrounds, borders, and color
* Creating multiple link styles
* Using absolute positioning
* Working with relative positioning
* Positioning with float
* Creating great CSS layouts

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About the Author:

Molly E. Holzschlag was named a "Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web" in 1998 and has authored more than 20 web design and development books. She is a Web Standard Project board member and frequent speaker at such trade shows as Comdex, Internet World, CMP's WEB Shows, and Web Builder.

Review:

"Every Web designer should have a copy of this book...[It] takes something possibly difficult and makes it very easy." -- Jennifer Kyrnin, Web Design Guide

"Substantially more useful than even the best tutorial I've seen...It is a must-have for every web designer/developer." -- IT-Enquirer

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