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The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

By Rachel Andrew

“The most complete question-and-answer book on CSS”

• Discover practical CSS page layouts you can put to use instantly.
• Combine CSS with images to create impressive visual effects.
• Troubleshoot CSS problems and learn to deal with alternative browsers.
• Save hours of maintenance by creating a site-wide style sheet.
• Customize each CSS solution to meet your specific needs.

Overview

SitePoint’s ‘The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks’ provides you with tried and tested real-world solutions to your Web design problems.

It’s the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that'll show you how to gain more control over the appearance of your Web page fonts, create sophisticated Web page navigation controls, design for alternative browsing devices including smart phones and screen readers for the blind, and much more.

The book teaches you to use best-practice coding styles and CSS 2.1 compliant code to ensure that your designs are easy to maintain and will continue to work well into the future.

‘The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks’ also includes download access to all the code samples used throughout the book so you can plug them right into your own Web page designs.

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) give you complete control over the look of your Web pages, without using cumbersome HTML tags. CSS allows you to truly separate content from presentation.

Separation of content from presentation will greatly reduce the time you'll spend maintaining medium and large Websites. Keeping your style sheet information separate from your HTML, you can instantly modify the appearance of many pages at once.

CSS 2.1 is a W3C standard intended to replace problematic formatting tags such as <font>, <center>, and legacy attributes such as ‘color’ and ‘align’, to give you greater control over formatting. CSS is being adopted by major organizations such as Wired, ESPN and Yahoo!. All modern Web browsers now support CSS; it is becoming best practice for Web page presentation.

What Will You Learn?

The code examples provided with ‘The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks’ will get you started quickly, allowing you to add style effects to your Website.

This book will show you how to:

• Construct robust CSS layouts that work every time.
• Create sleek drop-down menus using only CSS.
• Build a professional tabbed navigation system.
• Replace image-based navigation with low-fat CSS lists.
• Design smarter, more usable CSS-flavored web forms.
• Use rounded corners minus the bloated HTML.
• Allow your visitors to select their preferred look and feel.
• Let the W3C validator do your debugging.
• Reduce the burden of site maintenance and updates.

... with 92 other solutions to common questions and problems.

Take look at the Table of Contents

Who Should Read This Book?

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks’ is ideal for experienced Web designers who would like to add sparkle to their existing designs, as well as newcomers who want to learn Web design the right way the first time.

The book is written so that it can be read cover to cover, or referred to like a cookbook with 101 different recipies for your Website. It's written in an easy-to-follow, consistent format that's well illustrated with plenty of screenshots and code examples, providing quick visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style texts, then the illustrations and examples throughout this book will suit you.

If you're already familiar with CSS but you'd like to see some examples of great CSS design that really work in practice, this book will be a valuable addition to your desk.

If you don't have experience with CSS you can try out the examples provided in the book and the downloadable code archive for yourself and add effects to your Website in no time.

No-risk Money-back Guarantee

Of course we’re so confident that you’ll treasure this book for years to come that we’re happy, as always, for you to try it risk-free for 30 days. If you purchase a copy of The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks and you don’t think it’s everything you wanted, we would like you to have your money back.

Simply contact us and we will see to it that you get a prompt and courteous refund of the full purchase price minus shipping and handling.

What could be fairer than this?

How To Order This Book

Unfortunately, this book is no longer available!

The 1st edition of The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks was a fine book but we replaced it with a new and updated edition in August 2007.

We don’t sell the old version now, but check out the new edition if you're looking for an updated book along the same lines.