Book description
Updated and revised to reflect changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition offers a hands-on look at designing standards-based, large-scale, professional-level CSS web sites. Understand designers' processes from start to finish and gain insight into how designers overcome a site's unique set of challenges and obstacles. Become comfortable with solving common problems, learn the best practices for using XHMTL with CSS, orchestrate a new look for a blog, tackle browser-compatibility issues and develop functional navigational structures.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1. Best Practices for XHTML and CSS
- 1.1. Shoehorning Structure and Presentation Together
- 1.2. Learning to Love Your Markup
- 1.3. CSS: Adding a Layer of Style
- 1.4. Understanding the Cascade
- 1.5. Putting Theory into Practice
- 1.6. Summary
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2. Google's Blogger.com: Rollovers and Design Touches
- 2.1. Interviewing the Designer
- 2.2. CSS-Enabled Rollovers
- 2.3. Summary
- 3. The Classic U.S. PGA Championship Web Site
- 4. The University of Florida's UFL.edu
- 5. Stuff and Nonsense Ltd.: Strategies for CSS Switching
- 6. Adventures of CindyLi.com: Blog Modifications
- 7. AIGA Cincinnati: HTML Email Templates
- 8. Professional CSS Book Site: Using Transparent PNGs
- 9. Building CSS Layouts
- A. HTML 4.01 Elements
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B. Rules for HTML-to-XHTML Conversion
- B.1. The XML Declaration
- B.2. Picking Your Comfort Level
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B.3. Rules for XHTML
- B.3.1. Don't Forget the Namespace Attribute
- B.3.2. Quoting Attribute Values
- B.3.3. No Attribute Minimization
- B.3.4. Terminating Empty Elements
- B.3.5. Cleaning Nests
- B.3.6. XHTML with CSS and JavaScript Files
- B.3.7. Lowercase Element and Attribute Names
- B.3.8. Introduce ID When Using name
- B.3.9. Encode Ampersands
- B.3.10. When in Doubt, Validate
- C. CSS 2.1 Properties
- D. CSS Troubleshooting Guide
Product information
- Title: Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2008
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9780470177082
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