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The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design (Essentials)
Craig Grannell (Paperback) friendsofED 2007-11-12
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Outstanding CSS design coverage
The CSS and HTML Web Design book builds on the excellent by the same author. The new book is larger, it contains more examples; a lot of the examples are presented in a step-by-step manner. The new examples overall are trickier than old examples which, for better or worse, tended to gravitate... -
An excellent css/html design guide
The author promises this book is different. I suppose it is, thanks to the author's friendly and comprehensive approach to the material. This is a surprisingly complete guide for beginning and intermediate CSS designers with a lot of useful answers to practical design problems. For instance, many...
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The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book, he tells you everything you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and they look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details.It is designed to be valuable for you, whatever stage you are at in your career, with a mixture of practical exercises and reference material-beginners quickly learn the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers keep returning to book again and again to summarize techniques that may not have used it for a bit ', or look up properties, attributes and other details. And 'to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on your desk.It starts by giving a brief introduction to the Internet, and the vast area of web design, before diving directly into HTML and CSS basics, reusing code, other best practices. It then focuses on all major areas of a successful website typography, images, navigation, charts, diagrams, forms and feedback (also PHP scripts ready for use), and browser quirks, hacks and bugs. The book is completely up-to-date, covering support for the latest standard in all modern browsers, including IE 7 and Firefox 2.The last chapter of the book includes several case studies to dissect and learn from, including all the most popular website archetypes-a blog, a shop front, a corporate home page, and an online gallery. Then the book is completed with several detailed reference appendices relating to CSS, HTML, Color references, entities, and more, which means that all the details you need to look up are close at hand.
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Forms can be beautiful tooThe Next Web (blog) - Dec 31, 1969
The good news is, it's not hard at all for designers, developers and dabblers to get a pretty and usable form up and running with little effort (HTML5Rocks and NetTuts both provide great guides), some CSS, and sometimes a bit of JavaScript.