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Wrox professional CSS cascading style sheets for web design 2nd edition 2008
[...]... when faced with the challenge of designing for the Web, designers have what on the surface appears to be an oxymoron, a design technology named Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) CSS is a Web markup standard set by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) to define consistent styles in Web pages and to apply the template to multiple pages By its nature, CSS is a technology that, for the most part, must be written... experienced HTML users new to CSS — Any professional Web developer who has been exposed to CSS but needs a better understanding of how to put the pieces together to create professional- level Web sites ❑ Professional designers — Professional Web developers learning CSS (without any knowledge of traditional, 1990s-era design practices) and wanting to understand the best practices for utilizing the technology... www .wrox. com/contact/techsupport.shtml and complete the form there to send us the error you have found We’ll check the information and, if appropriate, post a message to the book’s errata page and fix the problem in subsequent editions of the book p2p .wrox. com For author and peer discussion, join the P2P forums at p2p .wrox. com The forums are a Web- based system for you to post messages relating to Wrox. .. that point, keep Professional CSS nearby 77082flast.qxd:WroxPro 3/25/08 12:11 PM Page xiv Introduction Professional CSS is one of the few books on the market today that addresses designing standards-based CSS on large, multi-page, well-designed, real-world sites using CSS in an integrated fashion Focusing on the best-practices aspect of Web development and using examples from real-world Web sites, this... messages at any time on the Web If you would like to have new messages from a particular forum emailed to you, click the “Subscribe to this Forum” icon by the forum name in the forum listing For more information about how to use the Wrox P2P, be sure to read the P2P FAQs for answers to questions about how the forum software works as well as many common questions specific to P2P and Wrox books To read the... markup to realize a site’s design You can instead focus on abstracting presentational cruft out of your markup and move it into your cascading style sheets The promise of separating structure from style is at the heart of standards-based Web design, and it makes for one of the most compelling arguments for creating page layouts with CSS By drawing a line in the sand between Web pages’ content and their... standardscompliant Web design) , provides some extremely valuable insight ❑ xiv Chapter 1, “Best Practices for XHTML and CSS — Ethan Marcotte, a steering committee member of the Web Standards Project and a recognized leader of the standards-based Web design movement, shares some insights on using Extended HTML (XHTML) with CSS Chapter 3, “The Classic U.S PGA Championship Web Site” — As a senior interactive designer... book uniquely offers applied, CSS- enabled solutions to design problems Christopher Schmitt ChristopherSchmitt.com Cincinnati, OH January 2007 Whom This Book Is For Those designers who understand CSS at an intermediate to advanced level, but who are not clear on how to effectively develop CSS- enabled designs at a professional level, will benefit tremendously from the information in this book In particular,... has been done here For Mozilla browsers, the Web Developer Toolbar (http://chrispederick.com/work/ firefox/webdeveloper) is one such tool, and an excellent one at that It’s an invaluable part of the CSS toolkit, allowing designers to turn on borders of different page elements, quickly edit a page’s CSS, and easily access various online code validators For Web developers on the Mac platform, take a look... applications aren’t true professional CSS design tools in the way PostScript is for Illustrator There’s another hurdle with CSS, though, that PostScript doesn’t have: browsers Browser vendors have slowly incorporated the technology into their browsers over time While CSS support is getting better (especially with the leap in CSS support in Internet Explorer 7 for Windows), designers still run into . . . . 291 77082ffirs.qxd:WroxPro 3/25/08 12:10 PM Page i 77082ffirs.qxd:WroxPro 3/25/08 12:10 PM Page ii Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Second Edition Christopher Schmitt Todd. with the challenge of designing for the Web, designers have what on the surface appears to be an oxymoron, a design technology named Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) . CSS is a Web markup standard set. Marcotte Dunstan Orchard Mark Trammell 77082ffirs.qxd:WroxPro 3/27/08 10:56 AM Page iii Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Second Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475