[...]... what Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design covers, who this book is intended for, how it is structured, what equipment you need to use it, where you can go if you have a problem or question, and the conventions used in writing it Introduction Who Is This Book For? This book’s primary audience is anyone seeking to learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets to present web documents Because Cascading. .. Wide Web Consortium, and a few days later, Håkon Wium Lie published his first draft of Cascading HTML Style Sheets This draft was a proposal for how HTML documents could be styled using simple declarations Of those that responded to Håkon’s draft of Cascading HTML Style Sheets was Bert Bos, who was working on a style sheet proposal of his own The two joined forces and came up with Cascading Style Sheets. .. she likes most ❑ Style sheets allow content to be optimized for more than one type of device By using the same HTML document, different versions of a website can be presented for handheld devices such as PDAs and cell phones or for printing ❑ Style sheets download much more quickly because web documents using CSS take up less hard disk space and consume less bandwidth Cascading Style Sheets allow the... document’s structure from its presentation ❑ Users of a website can compose style sheets of their own, a feature which makes websites more accessible For example, a user can compose a high-contrast style sheet that makes content easier to read ❑ Browsers are beginning to support multiple style sheets, a feature which allows more than one design of a website to be presented at the same time The user can... advantages of using CSS in a web document Advantages of Using CSS By using Cascading Style Sheets for the presentation of a web document, you can substantially reduce the amount of time and work spent on composing not only a single document, but an entire website Because more can be done with less, Cascading Style Sheets can reduce the amount of hard disk space that a website occupies, as well as the... Among CSS supporters was Microsoft, who pledged support for the new style sheet language in its Internet Explorer web browser Netscape, on the other hand, another popular web browser at the time, remained skeptical about CSS and went forward with a style sheet language of its own called JavaScript Style Sheets, or JSSS Ultimately, Netscape’s style sheets were not successful, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer... Mollie, Lisa, Richelle, etc.—thanks for being there! Especially, Eleanor, who’s been my best friend through everything Introduction Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the modern standard for website presentation When combined with a structural markup language like HTML, XHTML, or XML (though not limited to these), Cascading Style Sheets provide Internet browsers with the information that enables them to... the FAQs, click the FAQ link on any P2P page 7 1 Introducing Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets, fondly referred to as CSS, is a simple design language intended to simplify the process of making web pages presentable Put simply, CSS handles the look and feel part of a web page With CSS, you can control the color of the text, the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns... XHTML, or XML control the structure of a web page, which means little more than determining that certain text is a heading, other text is a paragraph, still other text is a list of hyperlinks, and so on Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design covers all the details required to combine CSS with HTML, XHTML, or XML to create rich, aesthetically powerful designs Throughout the book, I focus on... messages other users post You can read messages at any time on the Web If you would like to have new messages from a particular forum e-mailed 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 answers to many common questions . w1 h0" alt="" Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Richard York 01_576429 ffirs.qxd 11/18/04 12:25 PM Page iii Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design 01_576429. 12:25 PM Page ii Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Richard York 01_576429 ffirs.qxd 11/18/04 12:25 PM Page iii Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Published. mastering design of web sites using web technologies like CSS, XHTML, and PHP. When not writing for Wrox or building a website, Richard works on open source webmail applications written for PHP