CSS For Web Designers Only [Paperback]

Donna L. Baker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0471788678 | ISBN-13: 978-0471788676 | Edition: 1

It's all about style. CSS can make your Web sites flawless


You're a designer first. So is Donna Baker. She knows your questions about CSS because she's asked them too. How do I apply a CSS rule to specific instances? What key concepts should govern font styles? How do I keep the background image from disappearing in Internet Explorer? Why can't I control which cells display hover color? By answering these and a hundred other questions, Donna gives you new power to keep the style in your sites with CSS.
* Learn how to construct and organize a style sheet that meets all your needs
* Be able to write CSS syntax and define properties and values for fonts, images, and other page elements
* Use background images to their full potential
* Customize the appearance of your pages with pseudo-elements and pseudo-styles
* Learn when to use static, elastic, and fluid layouts using CSS positioning methods
* Make lists and tables behave consistently and effectively
* Resolve the problems that make forms display incorrectly in different browsers
* Design style sheets that make your Web pages friendly to printers, handheld devices, and other media

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From the Back Cover

It's all about style. CSS can make your Web sites flawless

You're a designer first. So is Donna Baker. She knows your questions about CSS because she's asked them too. How do I apply a CSS rule to specific instances? What key concepts should govern font styles? How do I keep the background image from disappearing in Internet Explorer? Why can't I control which cells display hover color? By answering these and a hundred other questions, Donna gives you new power to keep the style in your sites with CSS.

• Learn how to construct and organize a style sheet that meets all your needs
• Be able to write CSS syntax and define properties and values for fonts, images, and other page elements
• Use background images to their full potential
• Customize the appearance of your pages with pseudo-elements and pseudo-styles
• Learn when to use static, elastic, and fluid layouts using CSS positioning methods
• Make lists and tables behave consistently and effectively
• Resolve the problems that make forms display incorrectly in different browsers
• Design style sheets that make your Web pages friendly to printers, handheld devices, and other media

About the Author

Donna L. Baker created her first Web site in 1991, has worked with CSS virtually since its inception, and has taught courses in CSS and Web design. Donna has written several books, including The Unofficial Guide to Photoshop Elements 4 and the Official SWiSHmax Bible, also from Wiley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471788678
• ISBN-13: 978-0471788676
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,743,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be a lot better!, February 10, 2007

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Adam McClure "life long learner" (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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I hate to be the first person to review this book but here it goes. This book means well but my main gripe is with the books layout formatting and examples. There is way too many garish green text boxes that are "notes" or "pro tips". The boxes are distracting and there are quite a lot of them. The examples do help illustrate the material being dicusussed, but they look like examples out of the early 90's (cheesy). If you are just learning CSS this book would actually be decent if you can get past my gripes that I mentioned. If you have been doing CSS for a little while I would pass on this book. I would definitely buy CSS Mastery, Bulletproof Web Design, and The Zen of CSS Design before purchasing this book. If you are just starting out Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML, or Beginning CSS Web Development by Simon Collison would be great places to start.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars But, what kind of "Web Designers"?, May 6, 2007

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Mario A. Oliva Daza "Mario Oliva" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CSS For Web Designers Only (Paperback)

This book is really, really bad, a waste of paper, and a waste of money for me. Bad quality content in good quality paper. Definitely not for novices but not for "real" web designers either. Lots of useless photographs, low quality screen shots, many "blah, blah, blah" paragraphs and poor CSS code organization.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please tell me people don't think of this as web design.., November 12, 2009

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Gregory P. Sarpy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CSS For Web Designers Only (Paperback)

This is the absolute worst book I've read. The saddest part about it was forgetting to return it within 14 days..

I bought the book as a physical reference hoping it would be that, and let me say it was not that nor was it a book

that I feel could teach anyone anything about CSS and using it with XHTML.

I hate to be negative but seriously I do not understand HOW this book got published. I wish a real web designer (real meaning someone who knows CSS/XHTML and has good creative taste too) would have looked over this book before it got published. He/She then would have said "um this is really confusing".

Please do yourself a favor and pass on this book. It offers very little indepth understanding. It explains properties like "float" but then never goes into work arounds and "hey you need to know this" that there is with floats. She explains using the "clear" property, and it's basic function involved with floats but she does not go into how you MUST use it in certain float scenarios or your entire design will look terrible.

Please find a better book people. Like said in another review on here "it looks like clipart from the 90's" and that's no joke. As a web design book it should be both educational and inspiring. You would never see a photography book using terrible bad quality photos would you?