The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks | Rachel Andrew

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks | Rachel Andrew | Clear and Concise; Excellent CSS Resource

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	The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks Rachel Andrew SitePoint, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This should be on your reference shelf

If you know CSS, but aren't expert yet, this book should be one of the first purchases you make.
Issues such as browser support and accessibility should be important to designers and this book answers a lot of the issues. I'd strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to develop sites using CSS correctly.

Clear and Concise; Excellent CSS Resource

I have been dabbling with css for the last couple of years. I have primarily used it with HTML selectors. Now, I want to make a complete transition to CSS. My issues with css are these: navigation aids, browser support, and positioning and layout. My goal is to design web sites without tables that will display properly in all browsers.

This books starts out with basic css. I quickly reviewed the first few chapters. The chapters I got the most from were Forms and User Interfaces, Browser and Device Support, and, my favorite, CSS Positioning and Layout.

This book is set up very nicely. There is a question (for example, "How do I create a fixed-width, centered, two-column layout?") followed by a solution and then a discussion. The code for the css and html files are presented in the discussion section. Better yet, all the files can be downloaded from sitepoint.com. And then the solution section discusses the code point by point. My method was to open the html file in my browser and also in notepad. I also opened the css in notepad. I deleted all the code that I wanted to learn (leaving the html tags and the content). I then recreated the web page by writing the css file and linking it to the html file and modifying the file. For me, this was a good way to learn.

For any web designer that is learning css, relying too much on html tables and wants to transition to css, this is a book you should have.

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Good Book

Very objective reference about CSS. The book has a small introduction on CSS's Structure and part immediately for practical examples.

The subjects are boarded in the book: Positioning CSS, columns in CSS, creation of alternative style, forms presentation, presentation and interaction of tabular data, effects in links, lists effects and image positioning.

I liked a lot of the book structure. It is divided into questions and answers and provides the sensation that you are talking directly with the author. Each question is followed by the solution and some has discussion. The discussion even deepens the subject carrying to the extra reader knowledges as problems with browsers, other properties values, codes optimization and hacks. Most answers own very interesting examples with simple and complex structures

The book chapters are divided by elements HTML and CSS's special techniques. Each starts with a brief introduction on the subject and then it goes to the questions and solutions about the main needs to webdesigner. The book also owns some JavaScripts who complete the needs to interaction.

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Referência muito objetiva sobre CSS. O livro tem uma pequena introdução sobre a estrutura do CSS e parte imediatamente para exemplos práticos.

Os seguintes assuntos são abordados no livro: posicionamento CSS, colunas em CSS, criação de folhas de estilo alternativas, apresentação de formulários, apresentação e interação de dados tabulares, efeitos em links, listas posicionamento de imagens.

Gostei muito da estrutura do livro. Ele é dividido em perguntas e respostas e proporciona a sensação de que você está falando diretamente com o autor. Cada pergunta é seguida da solução e algumas tem discussão. A discussão aprofunda ainda mais o assunto levando ao leitor conhecimentos extras como problemas com browsers, outras valores de propriedades, otimização de códigos e hacks. A maioria das respostas possuem exemplos bem interessantes com estruturas simples e complexas

Os capítulos do livro são divididos por elementos HTML e técnicas especiais do CSS. Cada começa com uma breve introdução sobre o assunto e depois vai para as perguntas e soluções sobre as principais necessidades do webdesigner. O livro também possui alguns JavaScripts que completam as necessidades de interação.

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Excellent CSS Walkthrough Guide

This book is/has become my guide when something just isn't functioning properly or when I don't want to remember some hack. I quickly found myself learning all sorts of best practices, and tips that resulted in many hours shaved off my development time... all of this resulting from this very book.

I have been a long time Sitepoint reader and as always they never disappoint, I look forward to many more books in the future.

Oh and I must not forget the professionalism and quality that comes from Rachel is simply rare to find in the majority of technical books in the market these days.

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Tips, tricks and hacks

You have to already know and understand CSS. There is a small introduction, but after that, 101 "How do I..?" Perfect book if you are alredy familiar with the subject.

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