Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds of web pages, accelerating development times and centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. Stylin’ with CSS teaches you everything you need to know start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of markup of your content and styling text, through to creating multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn how to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS – no JavaScript required. Discover how to design code that will work on the latest standard-compliant browsers, while working around the quirks of the older browsers. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get your started and build your skills is right here in this book. You’ll be stylin’ in no time!
I grew up in the North of England in Derbyshire and in the (Full Monty) city of Sheffield, across the border in Yorkshire. After school, I moved to London and worked for tech companies staging corporate events and rock shows, which got me on the road with bands including Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Santana. I was there when Led Zepplin first performed LZ3 at 2 a.m. to 200,000 ecstatic dancing fans at an outdoor festival at Sheppton Mallet - that's in Dorset, I think, (site of the original gallows pole : )...perhaps the most exciting night of my life...or was it the four Dark Side of Moon shows at the Earl's Court arena in London?....go to www.bbd.com to see me playing Nick Mason's drums after one of those shows - can't add URLs here...those were crazy, magical days. But it was staging the big corporate events that first brought me to California, and once I got here, it wasn't long before I sold my house in London and settled in San Francisco. I bought four Mac Plus computers (upgraded to 2 meg of RAM!) and a laser printer and started PRINTZ Electronic Design, which went from desktop publishing to CD-ROM design to web development in the course of 12 years. The 80s and 90s were a great time to be in South of Market - the area that became known as Multimedia Gulch.
Today, I live a slighly more normal life as the Director of Production of Nacio, a web hosting and development company in Marin. I write books about web development, and I am designing and coding what I hope will be a revolutionary new tool for learning to play music; check back at bbd.com for more on that in the coming weeks.
Most of all, I just enjoy being a part of my family and living the beautiful Napa Valley. Life is good, and I hope yours is too.
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