The Art and Science of CSS

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
• Published by: SitePoint
• Edition: 1st Edition March 9, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0975841971
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0975841976
• Book Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Book Description
CSS-based design doesn 't need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks of your web site's design (such as headings, navigation, forms, and more) and bring them to life with fully standards-compliant CSS. This full color book helps you to design web sites that not only work well across all browsers, are easy to maintain, and are highly accessible, but are also visually stunning.

Create truly attention-grabbing headings.

Discover multiple ways to present images effectively.

Use background images to give your site zest.

Build usable and attractive navigation.

Design forms that are stylish and functional.

Learn how to break away from the square box clich ©.

Create funky tables.

And lots more

About The Author
Cameron Adams has been adding to the Internet for over seven years and now runs his own design and development business: www.themaininblue.com. He likes to combine the aesthetic with the technological on his Weblog, which contains equal parts of JavaScript, design and CSS. Jina Bolton, Interactive Designer, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts and Graphic Design fom Memphis College of Art. In addition to being featured in CSS Professional Style and Web Designing magazine, Jina consults for variuos agencies and organizations including the World Wide Web Consortium. She enjoys traveling, is learning Italian, and considers herself a shushi-enthusiast. David Johnson is one of those evil .NET developers from Melbourne, Australia. He is the senior developer at Lemonade (http://www.lemonade.com.au), and his role includes C# programming, database design using SQL Server, and front-end development using XHTML and CSS. He makes up for his evil deeds by being a firm believer in web standards and accessibility, and forcing .NET to abide by these rules. His favorite candy is Sherbies. Steve Smith is the lead Web developer with the University of Notre Dame Web Group, and believes in "finding joy in small steps" when it comes to advocating web standards. Jonathan Snook has been involved in the web since '95, and is lucky to be able to call his hobby a career. He worked in wb agencies for over six years and has worked with high profile clients in government, the private sector, and non-profit organizations. Jonathan Snook currently runs his own web development business from Ottawa, Canada and continues to write about what he loves on his blog at Snook.ca.

Reader Reviews
This is really another amazing book from Sitepoint which has been putting out a great line of web design/standards/crafting books. This book seems to follow right along the same bent: concise, well-written content at exactly the right level of detail to convey the point the authors are working on at the moment. Art & Science won't teach you the fundamentals of flow, divs, spans, or even CSS basics like classes and IDs; however, the progress through the book is so well-paced and clear that you'll be able to fill in any gaps in your knowledge as you read along. The book has seven chapters, each on a specific aspect of CSS such as Headings, Images, or Navigation. The chapters lay out basic premises of the topic, such as how you want to think about your headings as part of a page/site's branding and impact, then move on to details of creating and implementing a beautiful design. Each chapter makes its points in small, incremental steps such as starting off with basic vertical navigation, progressing to more advanced horizontal such as navigation with hover/current location changes, then finishes up with advanced concepts like matrixing menu images so you can show complex combinations simply by dealing with positioning. All of this is accomplished in a style and depth of content that's applicable to folks with rudimentary design/CSS skills (i.e. yours truely) as well as accomplished web designers. What really amazes me is that the authors hit such a broad audience (and did it well!), covered a broad range of topics in detail, and pulled it all off in just over 200 pages. (And those pages, by the way, are glorious full color.) This is a great book for learning how to deal with CSS in an elegant, well-architected fashion. It's simply a terrific book if you're doing anything at all with CSS. Comment | | (Report this)