false 258801 1 Web site design has grown up. Unlike the old days, when designers cobbled together chunky HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a prayer to make their sites look good, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) now lets your inner designer come out and play. But CSS isn't just a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling all kinds of presentation--from fonts and colors to page layout. <i>CSS: The Missing Manual</i> clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.<br /> <br /> <p>Like their counterparts in print page-layout programs, style sheets allow designers to apply typographic styles, graphic enhancements, and precise layout instructions to elements on a Web page. Unfortunately, due to CSS's complexity and the many challenges of building pages that work in all Web browsers, most Web authors treat CSS as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites. Integrating CSS with a site's underlying HTML is hard work, and often frustratingly complicated. As a result many of the most powerful features of CSS are left untapped. With this book, beginners and Web-building veterans alike can learn how to navigate the ins-and-outs of CSS and take complete control over their Web pages' appearance.</p><br /> <br /> <p>Author David McFarland (the bestselling author of O'Reilly's <i>Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual</i>) combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. You'll learn how to:</p><br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS</li><br /> <br /> <li>Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders</li><br /> <br /> <li>Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages</li><br /> <br /> <li>Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows</li><br /> <br /> <li>Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML</li><br /> <br /> <li>Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser</li><br /> <br /> <li>Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables</li><br /> <br /> <li>Style Web pages for printing</li> </ul><br /> <br /> <p>Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn't assume that everyone in the world only surfs the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer; our book provides support for all major Web browsers and is one of the first books to thoroughly document the newly expanded CSS support in IE7, currently in beta release.</p><br /> <br /> <p>Want to learn how to turn humdrum Web sites into destinations that will capture viewers and keep them longer? Pick up <i>CSS: The Missing Manual</i> and learn the real magic of this tool.</p> 250842 24 8 2006 CSS: The Missing Manual total:39|5:13|4:17|3:8|2:1|1:0| 39 159 78 11 5 0 false false Tue Apr 15 07:58:26 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 07:58:44 -0700 2008
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