Cascading Style Sheets Complete (Paperback)

~ (Author), J. W. Olsen (Author)

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Product Description

Twenty minutes to your first style sheet? Yes, and that's only the start of this incredible guide that transforms Web programmers into desktop publishers. Gain a solid background in the elements of design: typography, color, the juxtaposition of text and space. Change type sizes and styles on the Web. Learn to use Cascading Style Sheets to make your sites sizzle, dance, and convey the image you and your clients really want.

From the Back Cover

Cascading Style Sheets COMPLETE. With the McGraw-Hill Complete Series, you get 100% of what you need to deliver fully functional applications quickly. You get complete coverage of technical issues, from experts who understand the problems you must solve. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are an elegantly simple way to design eye-popping Web pages. And they're so easy to implement that even inexperienced Webmasters can format design-quality pages after only a few minutes' practice.

This guide contains everything you eed to learn how to look your best online! Inside Cascading Style Sheets Complete you'll find everything you need to:
*Get compfortable with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in 20 minutes.
*Refresh your HTML know-how in a CSS context.
*Master key concepts like selectors and inheritance.
*Think like a designer.
*Dramatically improve your use of fints, graphics, color, and open space.
*Take advantage of style sheets.
*Move on to advanced page design.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (February 25, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0079137032
• ISBN-13: 978-0079137036
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,907,443 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent treatment of confusing subject., January 13, 1999

By A Customer

This book really helped me master cascading style sheets. It is well-organized and leads you through all the basics before showing exactly how to create simple style sheets. After reading this book I was able to apply what I learned to create my own Web page styles. I think very experienced HTML coders will find the early part of this book too basic for their needs, but it fills the bill for the rest of us. I also recommend Danny Goodman's Dynamic HTML, which has an exhaustive look at how various browsers support (or don't support) style sheets.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful for beginners!, November 5, 1998

By A Customer

As a beginner with HTML, I found this book to be both a great introduction to HTML as well as to cascading style sheets themselves. I really liked being able to sample several different HTML editors, and there were instructions on how to upgrade to the latest versions online.

Most of the problems I've been having can be traced to the lack of support for style sheets in even the leading browsers, but this book helped me clear up most of my difficulties. Hats off to Busch and Olson.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is laughably bad, February 14, 2001

By A Customer

Style Sheets is a complicated topic, and this book, which looks like it was written in two days, does not cover the heart of the matter at all, it covers all other stuff about the internet and HTML. The glossary (which is totally unnecessary) at the end looks like it was taken directly of somewhere on the internet, and helped fill a few pages.

The book also had tons of errors. Almost every page has several errors. And I am not talking just about misspellings. The examples have bugs, the links are outdated, the explanation is flawed.

If you really must buy this book, I would please urge you to first go to a bookstore, and browse through it.