CSS Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge
This book begins with an in-depth look at structured markup, both XHTML and CSS. It then explains how to use CSS to achieve specific design goals involving typography, color, layout, and more.
CSS Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge
Introduction
Part I - Technology
Chapter 1 - Understanding Structured Markup
Chapter 2 - Learning CSS Theory
Chapter 3 - Writing CSS
Part II - Design
Chapter 4 - CSS Typography
Chapter 5 - Color, Backgrounds, and Borders
Chapter 6 - Working with CSS Layouts
Part III - Vision
Chapter 7 - Reconstructing a Table-Based Site
Chapter 8 - CSS Design Gallery
Chapter 9 - Wired News: A Visual Tour
Appendix - Value Types
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
List of Sidebars
Key topics you’ll learn about include:
- Writing valid XHTML
- Authoring effective CSS rules
- Working with classes and Ids
- Validating your CSS
- Creating great typographical designs with CSS
- Using CSS for backgrounds, borders, and color
- Creating multiple link styles
- Using absolute positioning
- Working with relative positioning
- Laying out pages using the float property
- Creating great CSS layouts
CSS: The Designer’s Edge effectively teaches web designers and developers to properly structure documents and use CSS as an empowering design technology. The topic is taught in a linear way, covering main concepts in markup and CSS in depth, with plenty of visual images to aid in the visualization of how CSS works.
The ideal reader for this book:
- Has a working knowledge of HTML
- Wants to work with CSS for presentation
- May already work with CSS but needs a stronger foundation to work effectively
- Is committed to understanding the languages of the Web in order to use them properly
- Is interested in strengthening skills to be more innovative with CSS design