The Art & Science of CSS
by Jonathan Snook, Steve Smith, Jina Bolton, Cameron Adams, and David Johnson
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Beautifully presented in full color, this book will teach you how to apply innovative CSS-based techniques to create visually stunning headings, forms, menus, navigation, backgrounds, and much more…
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About this Book
Using The Art & Science Of CSS, you’ll see just how easy it is to unleash your creative talents and design inspirational web sites with CSS.
All designs in this book are visually appealing and inspiring. The CSS code used to create each of the components is included and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.
The book’s full-color layout and large format (8” x 10”) make this one of the most usable and enjoyable CSS books available.
Among its many treasures, this book will show you how to:
- Format calendars, menus and table of contents using CSS
- Create horizontal, vertical and tab-based navigation systems using CSS
- Create rounded corners using CSS
- Design stylish Website headings
- Put together funky & artistic Website backgrounds
- Use CSS to render blockquotes, dates and lists in a visually appealing manner
- All designs in this book are visually appealing and inspiring. The code CSS code used to create each of the components is provided and is guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.
Contents and Extracts
- Headings
- Hierarchy
- Identity
- Image Replacement
- Flash Replacement
- Images
- Image Galleries
- Contextual Images
- Further Resources
- Backgrounds
- Background Basics
- Case Study: Deadwood Design
- The Future of Backgrounds
- Navigation
- The Markup
- Basic Vertical Navigation
- Basic Horizontal Navigation
- Tabbed Navigation
- Variable-width Tabs
- Advanced Horizontal Navigation
- Forms
- Accessible Form Markup
- Form Layout
- Required Fields and Error Messages
- Rounded Corners
- Flexibility
- Experimenting with these Techniques
- Tables
- The Structure
- The Styling
- Table Elements in Action
- Using JavaScript
- The Future
About the Author
Jonathan Snook has been involved with the Web since ’95, and is lucky to be able to call his hobby a career.
Steve Smith works as an independent web designer, developer, and consultant.
Jina Bolton, interactive designer, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts and Graphic Design from Memphis College of Art.
Cameron Adams has been adding to the Internet for over seven years and now runs his own design and development business.
David Johnson is the senior developer at Lemonade, and his role includes C# programming, database design using SQL Server, and front-end development using XHTML and CSS.
