New and updated edition of this best-selling, practicalbeginner's guide to CSS for Web designers.

• The widespread acceptance of Web standards makes CSS's accurate positioning, centralized style info, and streamlined coding more important than ever, as more and more Web designers make the switch from HTML
• Inspiring techniques, real-world case studies, and reusable code-snippets get readers up to speed with CSS quickly and easily
• Updated for IE7, Firefox, Safari and Opera

The separation of content and presentation is a key design strategy for today's web site, allowing content to be delivered across a wide variety of devices, and making it accessible to a broad audience using browsers, PDAs, cell phones, and aural screen readers. In this updated edition of his best-selling Stylin'with CSS, veteran Web designer Charles Wyke-Smith teaches users the latest CSS techniques, showing strategies for using multiple style sheets for page formatting, content containers, and individual content elements, and demonstrating how to use them in combination for rapid development of layouts. Discover how to build a personal styles library that can be used in multiple projects, allowing designs to be easily modified over time. Includes a library of downloadable page templates to use as a basis for site designs.

This step-by-step guide provides a solid grounding for both amateur and experienced Web designers exploring CSS for the first time. Readers will learn to write valid and well-formed XHTML using web standards, understand how CSS works and how to take full advantage of the Cascade and style inheritance. They'll also learn how to create layouts without the limitations of a table-based approach, build robust multi-column layouts that adjust to the browser, and create a reusable style sheet library that reflects a personal design philosophy

Publisher:
New Riders
ISBN:
9780321525567
Author:
Wyke-Smith, C.
Publication Date:
Jan 2008
Pages:
312
Retail Price:
AU $44.95
Your Price:
AU $36.30