Category Archives: CSS

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th Edition

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th Edition

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th Edition

With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users CSS. Best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague takes readers through today’s CSS essentials and provides extensive coverage of CSS3 and CSS 2.1 techniques. The book outlines what can be done with CSS3 now and how the latest browsers have implemented many of the new features. Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to CSS, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here in straightforward language and through readily accessible examples. Continue reading

Study HTML and XML for Beginners

Study HTML and XML for Beginners

Study HTML and XML for Beginners

HTML and XML for Beginners provides Web coding beginners with a concise guide to the world of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and previews even more powerful alternatives such as Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Rich in examples, the book walks the Web beginner through basic HTML techniques such as: Continue reading

The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries

The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries

The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries

One of the toughest challenges novice CSS developers face is when seemingly perfect code doesn’t translate into a perfectly rendered browser page—and with all the different browsers available today, this happens all too often. The CSS Detective Guide aims to help, by teaching real world troubleshooting skills. You’ll learn how to track clues, analyze the evidence, and get to the truth behind CSS mysteries. These aren’t pat solutions, but rather strategies for thinking about CSS. Author Denise Jacobs begins by going over the basics of CSS with a special emphasis on common causes of problems. Then she shows you methods for giving your code the third degree. Then you’ll take a look at the line-up of usual suspects, the common problems and persistent bugs that are often encountered in CSS. Continue reading

Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible. Continue reading

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 3rd Edition

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 3rd Edition

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The third edition of this best-selling book, published in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8.It’s the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that’ll show you how to gain more control over the appearance of your web page, create sophisticated Web page navigation controls, design for today’s alternative browsing devices including phones and screen readers, and much more. Continue reading

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

It’s a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.

Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You’ll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you’ll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple’s tools. Continue reading

HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS free Ebook

HTML without Tables Using CSS

HTML without Tables Using CSS

I’ve been around the Web for a while now—some might say I’ve been here from the beginning. And one thing that always bothered me about the Web was its inherent inability to disentangle content from presentation. The interconnected-ness of it all meant that, to produce a web site, you needed not only to have something to say, and some graphical design skills to make the presentation of that message look good, but you also needed to be a bit of a programmer. Initially, this “programming” was a pretty lightweight task: HTML markup, when all is said and done, isn’t really programming. Still, it’s more than just writing words and using a word processor to format them, or conceptualizing a display for a page—digitally or otherwise.

It’s no surprise, then, that designers who had clear ideas about how they wanted their web pages to look were frustrated by the need to create complex sets of deeply nested tables even to approximate their visions. As designers created increasingly complex ideas, and web browsers diverged further and further from even the merest semblance of compatibility, the Web threatened to collapse under its own weight. Serious designers began lobbying for a complete break from HTML to some new approach to the Web. Chaos reigned. Continue reading
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