CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions | 
| Authors: Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll
Publisher: friends of ED
Category: Book
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Pages: 280
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1590596145
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9781590596142
ASIN: 1590596145
Publication Date: February 13, 2006
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Product Description
Over the past couple of years, web designers and developers have begun taking more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability problems and are just bad practice. There are three main web standards married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs - XHTML for data structure, JavaScript for dynamic effects, and Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data. Working as a companion to our Web Standards Solutions book, this title covers advanced Cascading Style Sheet techniques, and includes are all the techniques you need to master CSS and craft modern, standards-compliant web page designs. You'll already know why you should be using CSS, so we dont bore you with pages of theory; instead, we jump straight into practical solutions, allowing you to get what you need as quickly as possible. Renowned web designer Andy Budd starts off by introducing the elements of an effective CSS toolkit, including good working practices, the cascade, the box model, relative and absolute positioning, floating, and more. He then delves into advanced techniques like replacing images, styling links and lists, creating navigation menus, making forms look good, debugging and overcoming browser quirks, and hacking and filtering. The book is rounded off with two case studies to give you inspiration for your own designs, written by two more of the worlds finest web designers, Simon Collinson and Cameron Moll.
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 One of the better CSS guidebook selections out there. December 12, 2008
Andrew J. Horton (Providence, R.I.)
This book is a strong purchase anyone looking to build upon their CSS skills. It's thorough, humorous, and to-the-point. CSS Mastery by Andy Budd should be the logical next step after reading CSS: The Missing Manual, which I highly recommend for anyone new to CSS and CSS concepts.
 Simply the best! December 8, 2008
M. Pyles (atlanta, ga)
Buy it. You will learn everything you need to create a good CSS site. Enough said!
Only need one book? November 23, 2008
Kevin Morrison (USA Northwest)
If you only want one book on CSS, this is it! Not only is the reference complete. But it goes one step further offering examples of how to apply CSS. In my opinion that gives it the edge over other books I have on the subject. This is one book that will never go in the garage sale!
Excellent reference despite errors October 26, 2008
E. Welker (Maryland, USA)
I can not argue with many of the other reviews which describe the errors in the book. There are more than a few. However, most advanced CSS users should be able to spot the errors relatively quickly. But lets not concentrate on the errors.
This book is one of the few CSS books that lives up to its title. This is a book on Mastering CSS, and is an advanced book on CSS (the only truly advanced CSS book that I am familiar with). I find myself re-reading this book quite frequently, to reacquaint myself with the information within. CSS is all about details and the results in multiple browsers. This references helps describe the differences not by simply pointing them out, but by illustrating why they occur.
Highly recommended book... any developer who uses CSS should have this reference at their disposal.
 Glaring Errors September 26, 2008
M. Jones (Illinois)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm very surprised that no one has mentioned the glaring errors in Chapter 3. A lot of the code does not match many of the names from the downloaded files. The code from pages 52-53 is identical to 50-51 even though it mentions that there are different images. The color they mention doesn't match the images. So far, NOT IMPRESSED!
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