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HTML Style Sheets Design Guide: The Web Professional's Guide to Building and Using Style...
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by Natanya Pitts, Ed Tittel, and Stephen N. James
Sales Rank: 2858673
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List Price: $39.99
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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books November 12, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576102114
ISBN-13: 978-1576102114
Product Dimensions:
10 x 8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Review
This outstanding guide takes you from the basic to advanced concepts of working with cascading style sheets, level 1 (CSS1). The writers assume that you're already comfortable with HTML and are ready to improve your Web site by adding style sheets.
The first part of the book provides an introduction to style sheets--the history of their development and an explanation of their utility. Part 2 explores the real nuts and bolts of creating style sheets; you learn about simple, class-based, ID-based, and contextual selectors; pseudo-classes and elements; and unit, box, classification, font, and text properties. Part 3 examines how to transform your Web pages using inline and external style sheets and Dynamic HTML. A full-color section in the middle of the book, "Do It In Color," features a guide to style-sheet color properties, a color chart, a dissection of a simple and a complex style sheet, and a tour of several successful Web sites that make good use of style sheets.
Appendices feature a CSS1 properties reference, a glossary, and a guide to the contents of the companion Mac/Windows CD-ROM, which includes source code for the book's examples, pointers to online resources and tools, and CSS1-enabled editors and utilities.
Book Description
Presents projects and reference materials so that the reader can master and apply style sheets technology as quickly as possible to their Web pages. Teaches simple ways to specify fonts, weights, sizes, leading, margins, and amultitude of other style parameters. Explains the underlying concepts and controls that style sheets provide.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Don't be seduced by this book's lavish cover or large-format, its 60-page color section or the considerable writing experience of the three authors. This book's potentially timely and valuable information is crippled by the publisher's decision to get this book on the shelves without benefit of the least editorial proofing. Page after page of obvious problems completely undermine your confidence in the technical content. Statements like "The Times font is probably the most commonly used font written in languages using Arabic letters." (p114) surely won't convince you that the authors have something to teach you in the way of fontfaces. Poorly thought-out and unimaginative illustrations have only a tenuous relation to text. Sometimes they have no relation. On p105, the authors "illustrate" the block nature of a list-item with a picture of Felix the Cat in a non-browser window labelled "Animated Gifs". Another example shows us Lotus Notes instead of Netscape. It is clear that technical facts have not been thoroughly checked. This is very important in an area where published standards are not completely implemented and there are wide variations in the type of implementation across browsers and platforms. We are told that "font size (sic) and font weight (tsk tsk) are abbreviated using the slash (12pt/14pt)." No, font-size and line-height are abbreviated that way. The book is poorly indexed, but that is normal for computer books. What is abnormal is that the color section, about one-third of the book, has not been indexed at all! Especially amusing was the 5 full-color pages gushing about Time Magazine's exemplary use of style sheets *without one line* of code to back up the authors' esteem. No, this is one beautiful book best admired from afar.
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