CSS: The Missing Manual
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- ISBN13: 9780596802448
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Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site’s appearance. You can tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you how to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Witty and entertaining, this second edition gives you up-to-the-minute pro techniques. You’ll learn how to:
- Make HTML that’s simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS
- Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding limits
- Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars — perfect with rollover effects
- Make effective photo galleries and special effects, including drop shadows
- Get up to speed on CSS 3 properties that work in the latest browser versions
- Erect complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs
- Style web pages for printing
With CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition, you’ll find all-new online tutorial pages, expanded CSS 3 coverage, and broad support for Firebox, Safari, and additional major web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8. Learn how to use CSS effectively to erect new websites, or refurbish ancient sites that are due for an upgrade.
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I have to give this book a partial rating. Although I give it a 3 star, and the reasonings for that, is because the book is thurough in its teachings. The step by step instruction is very excellent, how he guides you through the steps and processes. The downside of this book, and many books out there that teach this theme, is that it teaches you how to do premade work. When you want to venture out on your own, is where you get confused. You learn how to do a name elses work, set it up, code it, where to place it. What these books need to do, is teach you how to do YOUR own work. To tell you to grab your OWN graphics, work with them, place them, whatnot. THAT is what excellent teaching is about. Teaching others how to do YOUR work, is not the way to get people to really LEARN the product.
That is the only breakdown to these kinds of books and in the future, excellent authors such as David Sawyer McFarland, as he clearly knows his theme, should teach people how to learn with their own work, as each layout is different, and is coded differently. Not ALL setups of CSS is going to work with how he teaches it, with his form of design. Which is pretty much, pretty basic to start with. If maybe he taught more people how to do their own work, step by step, these books would be more worth the money. Then taking out hours of hard earned time learning a name elses work and not know what to do with your own once you concluded it.
To a name who really wants to learn the subjects, books like this are a waste of time. I would rather spend time looking up free go tutorials who will teach you how to code your OWN work, than spend fifty dollars on books that will teach you the opposite.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Although the book has content the samples are terrible, you cannot find the perfect code (CSS or HTML) in the book nor in the websites they indicate. One of the websites they point is [...], but as of now (November 2006), the site is not even available! Also, trying to look for the samples at O’Reilly website is useless because they are also not there! What a frustation!!!… For the non-existing samples files, the book is just not worth all the stars… Sorry I cannot give more! Solve the sample problems first. If you want to learn CSS by example be very carefull before buying this book. Look elsewhere first.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
There are many excellent thoughts in the book – But he jumps around too much and there are partial solutions, meaning… He’ll give you:
.mark { float:left;
width: 400px;
text-align: right;
clear: left;
Margin-right: -35px;
margin-top: 5px;}
But not show how it’s written with the html.
It’s a supplemental book at best (for me). I expected more for the $$.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is by far the best book out there if you want to learn Dreamweaver CS3. Not only does the leader show you vital features of the program, he clarifies web design concepts and principles. This is the best $30 I’ve ever spent. Thank you David for such a fantastic book.
You should write every book for all of Adobe’s products.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic introduction into the world of CSS. Having designed web pages in HTML since the 90’s I’m way overdue to make the transition to CSS. This book has been absolutely simple to follow with fantastic examples that cater to both beginners and more advanced users. I highly recommend this book even if you know next to nothing about HTML…it’s a fantastic place to start.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5