Name: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition
Rating: 4.6 (38 reviews)

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What you will learn

* Understand when to use CSS and when not to use CSS * Build robust, flexible two- and three-column layouts using CSS positioning. * Easily build both fixed-width and liquid page layouts

Description

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) deal with issues that HTML cannot handle. CSS is a powerful, flexible way to specify HTML formatting. It lets you separate the style and layout of your HTML from its content, allowing you to control the position, margins, spacing, fonts, colors, typefaces, and other aspects of a web document's elements without compromising its structure. This completely revised and expanded second edition includes new techniques for laying out your web pages using positional CSS, and makes crafting beautiful, accessible and maintainable websites a snap. First published in 2003, the first edition was considered to be the definitive guide to CSS - a step-by-step, clearly written tutorial. The 2nd Edition revision and updates ensure it remains just as relevant to web developers today. What's new in the second edition? * New information on making your site compatible with Firefox 1.5 and the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 * New sections on making 1-, 2- and 3-column layouts, using both floated and absolutely positioned elements * How to create site footers below columns, and how to extend columns vertically down to the footer * Information on making your site more accessible using CSS and semantic HTML * All new sample website demonstrating the CSS techniques used in the 2nd edition * Included property reference has been updated to CSS 2.1 * Corrections and clarifications throughout the book * All of the layout techniques used in the 2nd edition have been thoroughly tested in production in all of the popular modern browsers and are hack-free, so they will continue to work in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, and beyond.

Who is this for?

Like all SitePoint books, ‘HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition’ is written in a clear tutorial format that's easy to understand. If you hate wading through dry, academic-style books on web design, this book is the breath of fresh air you've been waiting for. If you've never built a website completely with CSS before and you're looking to go beyond the limitations of old-fashioned, table-based sites, this book will have you creating professional CSS-based sites in no time.

Creators

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker. Her books include the recent Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout and she is a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is co-founder of the CMS Perch , a Google Developer Expert and an Invited Expert to the CSS Working Group. She writes about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk.

Dan Shafer

Dan is a well-known Web design consultant and pundit. He cut his teeth as the first Webmaster and Director of Technology a Salon.com, then spent almost five years as the Master Builder at CNET’s Builder.com division.

Roy Goh

A very good hands-on guide book. It starts off with just enough CSS knowledge then proceed on with a layout project in the middle of the book. The project I must say is very useful in most real life project layout. A fundamental in alll website.

HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition