Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd EditionFocusing on the best-practices aspect of web development, this full-color book is revised to reflect the changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published. Featuring examples from real-world web sites, each chapter provides easily digestible CSS tips and techniques that were used for a specific site. The chapters document the designer's process from start to finish and provide insight as to how the designers overcame each site's unique set of challenges as well as ways they would have done things differently.Offering a hands-on look into designing standards-based, large-scale, professional-level CSS web sites, this unique book presents understandable solutions to common problems and offers an intelligible approach to effectively developing CSS-enabled designs at a professional level.What you will learn from this bookBest practices for using XHMTL with CSSHow to orchestrate a new look and feel for a blogThe ins and outs of designing a site that is relied upon by millions of usersTechniques for including drop shadows, drop-down menus, and embedded Flashr content into a web siteTips for tackling browser-compatibility issues as well as developing functional navigational structuresWays to customize a web site through CSS codingHow to create HTML e-mail templates, basic HTML table layouts, and how CSS plays a role in bothThe importance of grids and layouts in designWho this book is forThis book is for web developers who are looking for a clear understanding of how to use CSS to create professional-level web sites.Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.Schmitt, Christopher is the author of 'Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design', published 2008 under ISBN 9780470177082 and ISBN 047017708X.