Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide, by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith

Nekkidblogger — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:01:43 +0000

This book offers a very quick introduction to CSS. It consists of a quick rundown of most of the major syntax in CSS. It does not contain anything people with a little experience with CSS do not already know. Rather it provides a cursory and very hasty introduction from which readers can build their CSS knowledge.

The book starts with the basics – rules, selectors, classes, IDs, the cascade, internal and external style sheets, Divs, boxes, floats, padding, margins – everything is covered, both in a very basic manner. Next are styling elements, working with images, menus and navigation, and moving styles from internal to external style sheets. Rounding out this project-based guide is working with browsers, both old and new, and debugging CSS.

Styling Web Pages with CSS is very succinct and to the point. However, there are some minor mistakes in it, and there are lots of things that are not explained – so while most of the recommendations in the book work, it is very hard to understand why, and the book provides very little in the way of recommendations for where to go to learn more about particular topics or find more in-depth information.

I would consider this book an introduction for people liking to learn visually. However, it has limited value at all beyond the very first introduction. Generally I would say that this is one of the weaker Visual QuickProject books, and it was not as good as I had expected it to be.

Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: Next Generation Web Standards, by Christopher Murphy

Nekkidblogger — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:26:49 +0000

This is a new and very exciting book on modern use of HTML5 and the new CSS3 techniques. If you are a web developer, then Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 is a great introduction to the new features and elements of HTML5; all the leaner, cleaner, and more efficient code you’ve hoped for is available now with HTML5. Also, you will find new tools that will allow you to create more meaningful and richer content. For everyone involved in web design, this book also introduces the new structural integrity and styling flexibility of CSS3. This means better-looking pages and smarter content in your website projects with less work than before.

Beginning HTML-5 and CSS3 provides an in-depth look the new capabilities—including audio and video—that are new to web standards. It also addresses the new HTML5 structural sections, plus HTML5 and CSS3 layouts. You see how to create transitions and animations with new technologies.

Cutting-edge web development techniques with HTML5 and CSS3
The new features of HTML5 and how to work with HTML5 and CSS3
The new web standards being implemented by all the major web browsers
How to work with the new HTML5 structural sections
How to create HTML5 and CSS3 layouts
How to create transitions and animations without using Flash
New web typography solutions
A new vision of web development with HTML5 and CSS3

This book is for web developers and anyone involved in web design who wants to embrace the new web standards and cutting-edge features of HTML5 and CSS3. With a practical, accessible approach, this book is for anyone who wants to push their websites forwards with the latest technologies.

Links to this book at Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Amazon CAN.

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Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide, by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith

Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: Next Generation Web Standards, by Christopher Murphy