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CSS Pocket Guide, The
- By Chris Casciano
- Published Oct 13, 2010 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Peachpit Pocket Guide series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 5" x 7"
- Pages: 288
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-73227-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-73227-9
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-236030-6
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-236030-2
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Chris Casciano started building web sites professionally in 1997 when web development meant working with tables and font tags, sticking to a "web safe" color pallette, and worrying about load times for those using dial-up modems. He is now working as freelance web developer, spending the last 9 years in the trenches architecting and building web sites for digital agencies and their clients. Throughout his career Chris has explored ways to implement emerging technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in practical ways -- balancing the bleeding edge with the responsibilities of serving a diverse audience. His personal projects and writing have inspired industry leaders with projects like "Daily CSS Fun" in 2002 serving as inspiration for the popular "CSS Zen Garden". Since 2003, Chris has been an advocate for adoption of standards as a member of the Web Standards Project.
His personal web site, Place Name Here (http://placenamehere.com), now home to a blog covering both web development and his other passion of digital photography, has been online since 1998.
CSS is a language for describing the presentation of elements in a document marked up in HTML. It enables you to rapidly create Web designs that can be shared by multiple pages, accelerates development time, and is the essential tool for building standards-compliant sites. This low-priced pocket guide works as a concise introduction to CSS3 and serves as a handy reference. In it readers will learn
- The core concepts of CSS
- How to format text with CSS
- How to apply CSS style rules to markup
- How to build multicolumn layouts without using tables
- And much more
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Concise and to the point, By
This review is from: The CSS Pocket Guide (Peachpit Pocket Guide) (Paperback)
I am laying a totally different view for this book from the previous reviewer. This is a good book. if you have had a casual exposure to CSS by creating HTML web pages and/or viewing many pages in FireBug or IE's development tool, this book is an excellent reference book to decipher and learn CSS. I had read several CSS books and website tutorials while learning HTML, CSS plus some Javascript in DYI way. This book have most clearly explained how to create a multi-column layouts with "relative","absolute","margin offset" and "fixed" display property technique. Although these tequnique may be less important when all browsers start endorsing CSS table properties (for some reason, this book only talks about them in a few paragraphs, tacked at the end of "table"chapter where the author talks about mostly about html table tags) I finally understood why my pages looked a little odd and was able to correct problems.You will need a knowledge about HTML tags before reading this... Read more 
Fine Small Reference Volume, By
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This review is from: The CSS Pocket Guide (Peachpit Pocket Guide) (Paperback)
I was looking for a small, brief-entry CSS reference volume to use at my workstation while developing web applications. The standard definitive texts are simply too cumbersome to quick-scan comfortably. This fine volume fills that bill perfectly.
Good reference...,
This review is from: The CSS Pocket Guide (Peachpit Pocket Guide) (Paperback)
As a .NET developer with only a year of experience under my belt, I needed something to reference when designing web applications. I didn't need to learnCSS or how to use it. But CSS is not at the top of my list as far as needing to know the everything about it. I tend to use it to reference specific information and I usually already knowing exactly what I am looking for. This is a great book if use it the way it was intended. It's not a "missing manual" and was not meant to be. It's a book you keep on your desk for when you need it. If you don't know HTML or the basis of CSS, then this book is not for you. I do wish this book had a little more content for CSS3 but I am comfortable with my purchase. Best $10 I have spent on a book in a long time. |
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