HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 520 pages
• Published by: SitePoint
• Edition: 2nd Edition April 14, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0975240277
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0975240274
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Description
HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition is for web developers looking to create websites using Cascading Style Sheets for layout, which allow for faster page downloads, easier maintenance, faster website redesigns, and better search engine optimization.

HTML Utopia covers all aspects of using Cascading Style Sheets in Web Development, and is a must-read for Web Developers designing new sites or upgrading existing ones to use CSS layouts.

This book includes one of the most comprehensive CSS2 references on the market. Jeffrey Zeldman, web design guru and co-founder of the Web Standards Project, says "After reading this book, you will not only understand how to use CSS to emulate old-school, table-driven web layouts, you will be creating websites that would be impossible to design using traditional methods".

The second edition of this popular book includes brand new coverage of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.1, new CSS Solutions, and greatly expanded coverage of popular, cross-browser, CSS layout techniques. Back Cover Copy

"Now You Too Can Easily Create Modern 'Table-free' Websites Using CSS from scratch"

Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer's book is a comprehensive guide to learning and applying the principles of CSS to your Website.

This book will teach you how to

• Write faster loading, dramatically smaller pages
• Speed up site maintenance by separating the content from the layout
• Create flexible 3-column designs with ease
• Write device-independent CSS that will work on everything from a PC to an internet refridgerator
• Write search engine friendly pages that can actually be understood by search engines
• Design sites that are standards compliant
• Accomodate older Web Browsers
• And much more

Reader Reviews
Being a web software engineer, I have probably more experience with net and database related books than any others that I review. With this solid background, I can quickly tell if a web-related book is a good one or not and sitepoint puts out a lot of SOLID books. 'HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS 2nd Edition' by Rachel Andrew is a wonderful CSS reference that is a great guide for any and all web developers that use CSS in their daily jobs. With over 450 pages of material, the book is broken down into the following parts: 01. Basics 02. CSS 101 03. CSS Code 04. Validation & Backward Compatibility 05. Color 06. Fonts 07. Text Effects 08. Simple CSS Layouts 09. Three-Column Layouts 10. Fixed-Width Layouts A. CSS Miscellaneous B. CSS Color Reference C. CSS Property Reference If you want to determine how to produce a professional looking web site that doesn't rely on tables throughout to get the design working as you would like, you really owe it to yourself to pick up this guide. The writing is easy to follow and the layout within is easy on the eyes and a pleasure to open up. My only complaint with this book is the complete lack of color contained within. You would figure that a book that talks about design would have color pages to drive home points. Appendix B is an oxymoron in itself, titling itself COLOR but then only using the NAMES of colors to explain what they are. When comparing this text to the Pogue Press Missing Manual series, it's incredible that a book which is MORE expensive than those books has no color within while those books are absolutely drenched with pigments. All in all, a nice effort but the field goal is way way wide right as it concerns the decision (no doubt to save a few bucks on production) to include no color pages. **** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Comment | | (Report this)