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CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training (Hands-On Training) |
These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives you control over the appearance of your Web sites by separating the visual presentation from the content. It lets you easily make minor changes to a site or perform a complete overhaul of the design. In CSS Web Site Design Hands-On Training, you’ll start with a review of CSS essentials, learn to build effective navigation and page layouts, and then move on to work with typography, colors, backgrounds, and white space. The included CD-ROM is loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, and real-world projects take you through the Web page creation process, one step at a time. Over 60 Step-by-Step Tutorials
• Using CSS and XHTML together
• Learning essentials of selectors, inheritance, and the cascade
• Creating CSS navigation
• Laying out pages with CSS
• Adding colors and backgrounds
• Setting typography
• Creating white space, margins, and borders
• Creating tables
• Styling for print
• Plus much more!
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Publisher:
Peachpit Press
Author:
Eric Meyer
Release Date: 2006-11-19
ISBN/EAN: 0321293916 / 9780321293916
New Price: $20.99 /
Used Price: $21.50 /
Collectible Price: n.a.
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Average Rating: 3.5
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| This book smells good | Rating:  | This is a great book for someone learning CSS or for someone who might have skipped a few basics when they learned CSS originally. Eric Meyer is pretty much the most famous author of CSS books. His books rarely miss.
The book is very high quality as far as being easy to read. It uses high quality paper and print. The examples are in full color and are very sharp. This book is definitely easy on the eye balls - major kudos to whoever handled this part of the process.
One odd thing is that the book smells really good! I buy lots of books and this is the only one that has an odor. I don't know what smell it is but it smells a little like fresh pears. Great for long flights because it doubles as an air freshener.
Unfortunately, like most css books, the examples often do not work for all browsers. Most of these good authors are in love with their Macs so much that they test only on an operating system and browser that less that 5% of people use. This book , like the lynda.com site it promotes, has the same problem - it is geared towards the few people who use a Mac.
The free 3 day trial to lynda.com was exciting until I signed up and saw it was 100% QuickTime(mac) format. I will never make the mistake of installing QuickTime again.
These books and tutorials being made on and for Macs and QuickTime are a PLAGUE right now. I am putting my wallet away for a while until these authors start releasing tutorials that cover more than Mac specific issues.
| | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-10-16 | | | | A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners. | Rating: | As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially given the subject is CSS).
The author provides a fictional site (all codes and video tutorials included in the CD), from which he well explains the various aspects of CSS over 10 chapters, the last of which summarizes everything that you will have learned by the end. I especially liked how he had separated the unnecessary parts into an external stylesheet so that a reader can discard them and will know exactly what he has just modified actually does to a site. The author also breaks each chapter into smaller sections, with each latter continuing from previous ones (much like Skinner shaping his pigeons in small steps), so I was never overwhelmed or frustrated.
I rate this book a 4, however, because there are minor typos (mostly missing dashes or periods in selectors) in the book that may confuse some, and I feel the author should have proofread better when codes are crucial. They are easy to locate and fix and the provided codes in the CD are without mistakes, so you can always look at the next section in the CD to see what the correct code should be.
Like others have complained, the author only seems to have tested this on Firefox on a Mac, and I'm not sure how different the site is on IE7 (both externally and internally), but in all fairness, the author does mention how some aspects do not work on IE and how to get around them.
If you are a novice to CSS and want to teach yourself, I highly recommend this book. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-08-14 | | | | A true tutorial about CSS | Rating:  | | There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-05-29 | | | | Good for beginning CSS users | Rating: | | This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-05-11 | | | | lackluster and thin | Rating:  | This is my beginner's opinion and experience with this book.
Open an html file in a text editor and do this. Now refresh your web browser and see what happens? Wow!
This book is full of just that. It just barely goes into explanation of exactly why you are doing what you are doing, and that really there is another external CSS style sheet that is working in the background of the embedded code you are made to write in the exercises. So in reality it's not so easy. I found it confusing how I kept having to look from the embedded styles in the exercises and the external CSS style sheet to really see how everything worked together. Tedious is the word I would use with this book. It only skims the surface of beginning CSS. It would have been better if we could have completely styled the practice website with explanation, exercises and examples, and then exported the style sheet. Also there is no repetition about what was covered. We are provided with one example and bingo that's it. The rest is left for you to remember. It's not even a good reference book. This book is all over the place.
Also the book uses the same Javaco Tea website, as a practice site that is used in far too many Lynda Weinman books, in my opinion. These books are not cheap and it would be nice if a different example was used. Mix it up a bit. I would have liked to have seen how developers position those cool borders and graphics you see on some sites.
I felt that this book was written in an after thought fashion and does not go into explaining or challenging a person to practice with examples on their own. It lacks substance. It's thin. It would have been nice to see a chapter by chapter review or a summary of the various things we had gone over. A memory device.
What is provided is repetitive do and see exercises that are not fully conceived.
I also read Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and found it much more substantial and richer in detail. | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2008-03-18 | | | | This book smells good | Rating: | This is a great book for someone learning CSS or for someone who might have skipped a few basics when they learned CSS originally. Eric Meyer is pretty much the most famous author of CSS books. His books rarely miss.
The book is very high quality as far as being easy to read. It uses high quality paper and print. The examples are in full color and are very sharp. This book is definitely easy on the eye balls - major kudos to whoever handled this part of the process.
One odd thing is that the book smells really good! I buy lots of books and this is the only one that has an odor. I don't know what smell it is but it smells a little like fresh pears. Great for long flights because it doubles as an air freshener.
Unfortunately, like most css books, the examples often do not work for all browsers. Most of these good authors are in love with their Macs so much that they test only on an operating system and browser that less that 5% of people use. This book , like the lynda.com site it promotes, has the same problem - it is geared towards the few people who use a Mac.
The free 3 day trial to lynda.com was exciting until I signed up and saw it was 100% QuickTime(mac) format. I will never make the mistake of installing QuickTime again.
These books and tutorials being made on and for Macs and QuickTime are a PLAGUE right now. I am putting my wallet away for a while until these authors start releasing tutorials that cover more than Mac specific issues.
| | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-10-16 | | | | A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners. | Rating: | As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially given the subject is CSS).
The author provides a fictional site (all codes and video tutorials included in the CD), from which he well explains the various aspects of CSS over 10 chapters, the last of which summarizes everything that you will have learned by the end. I especially liked how he had separated the unnecessary parts into an external stylesheet so that a reader can discard them and will know exactly what he has just modified actually does to a site. The author also breaks each chapter into smaller sections, with each latter continuing from previous ones (much like Skinner shaping his pigeons in small steps), so I was never overwhelmed or frustrated.
I rate this book a 4, however, because there are minor typos (mostly missing dashes or periods in selectors) in the book that may confuse some, and I feel the author should have proofread better when codes are crucial. They are easy to locate and fix and the provided codes in the CD are without mistakes, so you can always look at the next section in the CD to see what the correct code should be.
Like others have complained, the author only seems to have tested this on Firefox on a Mac, and I'm not sure how different the site is on IE7 (both externally and internally), but in all fairness, the author does mention how some aspects do not work on IE and how to get around them.
If you are a novice to CSS and want to teach yourself, I highly recommend this book. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-08-14 | | | | A true tutorial about CSS | Rating: | | There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-05-29 | | | | Good for beginning CSS users | Rating: | | This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-05-11 | | | | lackluster and thin | Rating: | This is my beginner's opinion and experience with this book.
Open an html file in a text editor and do this. Now refresh your web browser and see what happens? Wow!
This book is full of just that. It just barely goes into explanation of exactly why you are doing what you are doing, and that really there is another external CSS style sheet that is working in the background of the embedded code you are made to write in the exercises. So in reality it's not so easy. I found it confusing how I kept having to look from the embedded styles in the exercises and the external CSS style sheet to really see how everything worked together. Tedious is the word I would use with this book. It only skims the surface of beginning CSS. It would have been better if we could have completely styled the practice website with explanation, exercises and examples, and then exported the style sheet. Also there is no repetition about what was covered. We are provided with one example and bingo that's it. The rest is left for you to remember. It's not even a good reference book. This book is all over the place.
Also the book uses the same Javaco Tea website, as a practice site that is used in far too many Lynda Weinman books, in my opinion. These books are not cheap and it would be nice if a different example was used. Mix it up a bit. I would have liked to have seen how developers position those cool borders and graphics you see on some sites.
I felt that this book was written in an after thought fashion and does not go into explaining or challenging a person to practice with examples on their own. It lacks substance. It's thin. It would have been nice to see a chapter by chapter review or a summary of the various things we had gone over. A memory device.
What is provided is repetitive do and see exercises that are not fully conceived.
I also read Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and found it much more substantial and richer in detail. | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2008-03-18 | | | | This book smells good | Rating: | This is a great book for someone learning CSS or for someone who might have skipped a few basics when they learned CSS originally. Eric Meyer is pretty much the most famous author of CSS books. His books rarely miss.
The book is very high quality as far as being easy to read. It uses high quality paper and print. The examples are in full color and are very sharp. This book is definitely easy on the eye balls - major kudos to whoever handled this part of the process.
One odd thing is that the book smells really good! I buy lots of books and this is the only one that has an odor. I don't know what smell it is but it smells a little like fresh pears. Great for long flights because it doubles as an air freshener.
Unfortunately, like most css books, the examples often do not work for all browsers. Most of these good authors are in love with their Macs so much that they test only on an operating system and browser that less that 5% of people use. This book , like the lynda.com site it promotes, has the same problem - it is geared towards the few people who use a Mac.
The free 3 day trial to lynda.com was exciting until I signed up and saw it was 100% QuickTime(mac) format. I will never make the mistake of installing QuickTime again.
These books and tutorials being made on and for Macs and QuickTime are a PLAGUE right now. I am putting my wallet away for a while until these authors start releasing tutorials that cover more than Mac specific issues.
| | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-10-16 | | | | A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners. | Rating: | As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially given the subject is CSS).
The author provides a fictional site (all codes and video tutorials included in the CD), from which he well explains the various aspects of CSS over 10 chapters, the last of which summarizes everything that you will have learned by the end. I especially liked how he had separated the unnecessary parts into an external stylesheet so that a reader can discard them and will know exactly what he has just modified actually does to a site. The author also breaks each chapter into smaller sections, with each latter continuing from previous ones (much like Skinner shaping his pigeons in small steps), so I was never overwhelmed or frustrated.
I rate this book a 4, however, because there are minor typos (mostly missing dashes or periods in selectors) in the book that may confuse some, and I feel the author should have proofread better when codes are crucial. They are easy to locate and fix and the provided codes in the CD are without mistakes, so you can always look at the next section in the CD to see what the correct code should be.
Like others have complained, the author only seems to have tested this on Firefox on a Mac, and I'm not sure how different the site is on IE7 (both externally and internally), but in all fairness, the author does mention how some aspects do not work on IE and how to get around them.
If you are a novice to CSS and want to teach yourself, I highly recommend this book. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-08-14 | | | | A true tutorial about CSS | Rating: | | There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-05-29 | | | | Good for beginning CSS users | Rating: | | This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-05-11 | | | | lackluster and thin | Rating: | This is my beginner's opinion and experience with this book.
Open an html file in a text editor and do this. Now refresh your web browser and see what happens? Wow!
This book is full of just that. It just barely goes into explanation of exactly why you are doing what you are doing, and that really there is another external CSS style sheet that is working in the background of the embedded code you are made to write in the exercises. So in reality it's not so easy. I found it confusing how I kept having to look from the embedded styles in the exercises and the external CSS style sheet to really see how everything worked together. Tedious is the word I would use with this book. It only skims the surface of beginning CSS. It would have been better if we could have completely styled the practice website with explanation, exercises and examples, and then exported the style sheet. Also there is no repetition about what was covered. We are provided with one example and bingo that's it. The rest is left for you to remember. It's not even a good reference book. This book is all over the place.
Also the book uses the same Javaco Tea website, as a practice site that is used in far too many Lynda Weinman books, in my opinion. These books are not cheap and it would be nice if a different example was used. Mix it up a bit. I would have liked to have seen how developers position those cool borders and graphics you see on some sites.
I felt that this book was written in an after thought fashion and does not go into explaining or challenging a person to practice with examples on their own. It lacks substance. It's thin. It would have been nice to see a chapter by chapter review or a summary of the various things we had gone over. A memory device.
What is provided is repetitive do and see exercises that are not fully conceived.
I also read Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and found it much more substantial and richer in detail. | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2008-03-18 | | | | This book smells good | Rating: | This is a great book for someone learning CSS or for someone who might have skipped a few basics when they learned CSS originally. Eric Meyer is pretty much the most famous author of CSS books. His books rarely miss.
The book is very high quality as far as being easy to read. It uses high quality paper and print. The examples are in full color and are very sharp. This book is definitely easy on the eye balls - major kudos to whoever handled this part of the process.
One odd thing is that the book smells really good! I buy lots of books and this is the only one that has an odor. I don't know what smell it is but it smells a little like fresh pears. Great for long flights because it doubles as an air freshener.
Unfortunately, like most css books, the examples often do not work for all browsers. Most of these good authors are in love with their Macs so much that they test only on an operating system and browser that less that 5% of people use. This book , like the lynda.com site it promotes, has the same problem - it is geared towards the few people who use a Mac.
The free 3 day trial to lynda.com was exciting until I signed up and saw it was 100% QuickTime(mac) format. I will never make the mistake of installing QuickTime again.
These books and tutorials being made on and for Macs and QuickTime are a PLAGUE right now. I am putting my wallet away for a while until these authors start releasing tutorials that cover more than Mac specific issues.
| | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-10-16 | | | | A great comprehensive tutorial for beginners. | Rating: | As a CS major, I had taken a web programming course that mostly dealt with Javascript and PHP but didn't heavily emphasize the design, and had been meaning to learn CSS sometime. As a beginner, I've looked at some online tutorials, but none presented the materials well. When I saw this at a bookstore, I was immediately drawn by the easy layout of the contents as well as the fully-colored screenshots of a current page as checkpoints (color helps a lot compared to other black-and-white texts, especially given the subject is CSS).
The author provides a fictional site (all codes and video tutorials included in the CD), from which he well explains the various aspects of CSS over 10 chapters, the last of which summarizes everything that you will have learned by the end. I especially liked how he had separated the unnecessary parts into an external stylesheet so that a reader can discard them and will know exactly what he has just modified actually does to a site. The author also breaks each chapter into smaller sections, with each latter continuing from previous ones (much like Skinner shaping his pigeons in small steps), so I was never overwhelmed or frustrated.
I rate this book a 4, however, because there are minor typos (mostly missing dashes or periods in selectors) in the book that may confuse some, and I feel the author should have proofread better when codes are crucial. They are easy to locate and fix and the provided codes in the CD are without mistakes, so you can always look at the next section in the CD to see what the correct code should be.
Like others have complained, the author only seems to have tested this on Firefox on a Mac, and I'm not sure how different the site is on IE7 (both externally and internally), but in all fairness, the author does mention how some aspects do not work on IE and how to get around them.
If you are a novice to CSS and want to teach yourself, I highly recommend this book. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-08-14 | | | | A true tutorial about CSS | Rating: | | There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2008-05-29 | | | | Good for beginning CSS users | Rating: | | This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-05-11 | | | | lackluster and thin | Rating: | This is my beginner's opinion and experience with this book.
Open an html file in a text editor and do this. Now refresh your web browser and see what happens? Wow!
This book is full of just that. It just barely goes into explanation of exactly why you are doing what you are doing, and that really there is another external CSS style sheet that is working in the background of the embedded code you are made to write in the exercises. So in reality it's not so easy. I found it confusing how I kept having to look from the embedded styles in the exercises and the external CSS style sheet to really see how everything worked together. Tedious is the word I would use with this book. It only skims the surface of beginning CSS. It would have been better if we could have completely styled the practice website with explanation, exercises and examples, and then exported the style sheet. Also there is no repetition about what was covered. We are provided with one example and bingo that's it. The rest is left for you to remember. It's not even a good reference book. This book is all over the place.
Also the book uses the same Javaco Tea website, as a practice site that is used in far too many Lynda Weinman books, in my opinion. These books are not cheap and it would be nice if a different example was used. Mix it up a bit. I would have liked to have seen how developers position those cool borders and graphics you see on some sites.
I felt that this book was written in an after thought fashion and does not go into explaining or challenging a person to practice with examples on their own. It lacks substance. It's thin. It would have been nice to see a chapter by chapter review or a summary of the various things we had gone over. A memory device.
What is provided is repetitive do and see exercises that are not fully conceived.
I also read Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and found it much more substantial and richer in detail. | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2008-03-18 | | |
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