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Spring Into HTML and CSS (Spring Into... Series)
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by Molly E. Holzschlag
Sales Rank: 623155
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List Price: $34.99
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional May 2, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131855867
ISBN-13: 978-0131855861
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
Whether working as a laboratory scientist, a mechanical engineer, an attorney, or virtually any other profession, the need or desire to use HTML effectively arises often. The Web has become an essential publishing medium for knowledge workers of all stripes. Yet web design and development has become an extremely complex field, with many sub-fields. For the smart, educated reader who is not a web professional, trying to find clear resources on how to create well-authored pages quickly and easily is increasingly difficult. Spring Into HTML and CSS solves this problem by paring down HTML and CSS into a series of easy-to-understand single-page and facing-page tutorials, while simultaneously teaching contemporary best practices. The book is written in a conversational style. Code samples and screen shots are included in each tutorial, as well as "quantum leaps"--techniques that show the reader how to apply what they've just learned to solve more complex problems. Templates and sample files are also provided to help readers quickly understand more complex problems by working directly with samples.
Back Cover Copy
The fastest route to true HTML/CSS mastery!
Need to build a web site? Or update one? Or just create some effective new web content? Maybe you just need to update your skills, do the job better.
Welcome. This book's for you. We'll leverage what you already know about the web, so you'll go further, faster than you ever expected. You'll master today's best practices: the real nuts and bolts, not theory or hooey. You'll learn through dozens of focused HTML, XHTML, and CSS examples: crafted for simplicity and easy to adapt for your own projects.
Need specific solutions? This book's modular, visual, high-efficiency format delivers them instantly. Molly E. Holzschlag draws on her unparalleled experience teaching Web design and development. No other HTML/CSS guide covers this much, this well, this quickly. Dig in, get started, get results!
All you need to succeed with HTML, XHTML, and CSS in real-world projects
Learn how to build web pages that'll work in any environment, on virtually any contemporary browser
Construct templates that simplify every page you develop
Structure and tag text so it's easy to work with and manage
Add images, media, and scriptsquickly and reliably
Discover the right ways to use HTML tables
Build easy-to-use forms and validate your users' input
Use CSS to take total control over your site's look and feel
Master core CSS techniques: color, images, text styles, link effects, lists, navigation, and more
Control margins, borders, padding, positioning, floats, even Z-index
Design efficient, compatible, easy-to-manage CSS layouts
Includes concise XHTML and CSS annotated references: quick help for every language element
Spring Into is a new series of fast-paced tutorials from Addison-Wesley. Each book in the series is designed to bring you up to speed quickly. Complex topics and technologies are reduced to their core components, and each component is treated with remarkable efficiency in one- or two-page spreads. Just the information you need to begin workingnow! And because the books are example-rich and easy to navigate, you'll find that they make great on-the-job references after you've mastered the basics.
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Customer Reviews & Comments
"Spring Into HTML and CSS" is another in the series of quick primers from Pearson Education, Inc. about contemporary technologies, designed for non-professional website designers and developers. The author is described as one the "top 25 most influential women on the Internet", having 30 books to her credit as well as being an influential thinker. What is called "HTML" here really means "XHTML" and this book is one of a number currently promoting standards-compliant web design using XHTML and CSS. Like the others in this series, this book is written for quick reading of short 1-2 page "chunks" detailing one of a large handful of topics related to contemporary webpage design promoting adherence to the World Wide Web Consortium standards and will have its most value for less-technically experienced web designers.. Ms. Holzschlag starts right from the top - describing the logical construction of a web page using the now-required "Document Data-Type" header and proceeding through the usual Head section to other page objects. These objects include text paragraphs, links, images, media, and tables which are styled with CSS. Basic CSS concepts are explained and examples of styling include styling text and tables, forms, layouts, positioning and more. Nearly every page contains sidebars of related items, illustrations, or code examples. Strangely, some of the examples involve color settings for backgrounds, lines and text but the illustrations are all gray-scale color. No matter, as the examples are simple and clear enough. There is appropriate note of browser-compatibility issues and how to work around them. The 13 chapters are supplemented by long, comprehensive annotated references of XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1, containing over 70 pages all together. Downloadable code examples are available at (...). This is a light introduction to the subject matter with fast-paced writing and is well-populated with examples.
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Spring Into HTML and CSS (Spring Into... Series)
List Price: $34.99
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Price: $26.59
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