CSS Web Design For Dummies 1st Edition by Richard Mansfield (PDF)

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effectsThis book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects availableSeasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web developmentExplains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitionsU Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover A step-by-step guide for stepping up from plain HTML Create Web sites that grab attention, remain consistent, and are easy to updateAttention Web designers! CSS can be your secret weapon, and this book shows you how to use it. CSS helps you create dynamic visual effects, unify the look of your site, and deliver your site’s content in a professional way that gets noticed. It even makes updates and changes a breeze. Here’s what you need to get up to speed!Discover how toCreate practical style sheetsFormat pages that are visually pleasingManage details such as colors and backgroundsHandle lists and tablesRender complex documents About the Author Richard Mansfield was the editor of COMPUTE! Magazine from 1981 to 1987. During that time, he wrote hundreds of magazine articles and two columns. From 1987 to 1991, he was editorial director and partner at Signal Research. He began writing books full-time in 1991 and has written 36 computer books since 1982. Of those, four became bestsellers: Machine Language for Beginners (COMPUTE! Books), The Second Book of Machine Language (COMPUTE! Books), The Visual Guide to Visual Basic (Ventana), and The Visual Basic Power Toolkit (Ventana, coauthored by Evangelos Petroutsos). His books combined have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 12 languages. Richard’s recent titles include Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Visual Basic .NET All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course, Visual Basic .NET Database Programming For Dummies, Visual Basic 6 Database Programming For Dummies (all published by Wiley), Hacker Attack (Sybex), and The Wi-Fi Experience: Everyone’s Guide to 802.11b Wireless Networking (Pearson Education, coauthored by Harold Davis).

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Web Design keeps getting easier, CSS hurries that along. No brilliant code writing required. This is a book a lay person can make the most of.Claudia Strasbaugh

⭐I decide to design my own web page due to the disappointments from the one’s I have visited. I haven’t found he time yet.

⭐It will help you get up to speed. You only need a few things but this wll let you know which ones.

⭐This is growing long in the tooth. Yes, it makes a good beginner book but I think at least a newer version would be better.

⭐this book is useless for anyone that doesn’t stick to the very narrow parameters the author dictates. I tried some of the exercises and they did not work at all

⭐EXCELLENT PRODUCT, I LIKE IT A LOT.

⭐Book came in very good shape exactly like the seller said it would. Good Book.

⭐The author focuses almost entirely on Internet Explorer, and isn’t shy about it. He plainly states “history and popular opinion has elected Internet Explorer (IE) as the standard — who are we to argue?” and then goes on to say “assume that your Web page visitors are either using IE, or are accustomed to the penalties for sticking with a fringe browser”.I can understand his logic in focusing on IE, but I don’t think it’s fair to us ‘fringe’ users who use a browser that actually follows the W3C standards. In my opinion, we *should* argue against bad and/or non-compliant browsers.There is a good chance my website is vastly different from the ‘average’ website, so I don’t present this as conclusive proof, but only 33% of my visitors are using IE while 41% use firefox and 26% use Safari. Thats a far cry from 90% IE (as the author claims).If people keep supporting Microsoft’s bad programing, Microsoft will keep writing programs that are not to standard and this book does little but promote Microsoft’s bad programing. Further more, I suspect that in the not-so-distant future, we will see a shift towards firefox or some other compliant browser and most of the information in this book will become null and void.Case in point, the very first example in the book will not work in Firefox. What’s going to happen when IE8 or 10 or whatever comes along and Microsoft jumps on the W3C band wagon? All the pages written for IE will now be broken.Additionally, even if most browsers are IE for now, I would be willing to put money on that most developers are running some flavor of Linux (as I am), and it would be nice to get generic information instead of Microsoft specific information. For example, instead of just saying ‘save the file then open it in your browser’, the author says ‘In notebook, select file, then save, and then open the file in Internet Explorer’.He really goes out of his way to dumb it down to the masses. Sure, the author may use language my mother can follow, but my mother doesn’t even know what CSS is. It would be nice to have more generic information, even if it sacrifices a bit of clarity.All-in-all, the book is a good starting point, but I would be hesitant to recommend this book to anyone, and I definitely would not recommend it to anyone that uses Linux or Mac or anything that is not Windows.

⭐I found this Dummies less useful than I had hoped.The author (and the editorial office) have permitted far too much extraneous jokeyness and ‘asides’ to drift in. This acts to deflect one’s attention, and when the topic’s as challenging as CSS, there is no need.Whilst nobody would wish to reject the “fun” way to approach the subject, too much irrelevant padding for “fun” makes it all the less “easy” (the other characteristic that’s claimed for the book).

⭐Ordered for work

⭐Good product.

⭐Excellent item & delivery, 100% satisfied, Thank you.

⭐While the ‘Dummies’ series is usually aimed at the beginner-to-lay reader, the line varies considerably in both quality and its target audience. I’ve purchased some outstanding books in this line, so decided to get this, sight unseen, from Amazon, based on previous experiences.CSS Web Design for Dummies is aimed at the lower end of the range, so experienced users should look elsewhere. And even beginners might be disappointed by its weak content.The book’s major failing is a lack of a reference section which includes all the CSS values and properties. Chart versions of this can be printed on 2-4 sheets, so it would not have been an extra expense (especially if the editor trimmed some of the waste – like the carrot recipe, or the ad for Visual Studio…). You will need to buy another book just to get the necessary reference guide.If you’re looking for practical tips and hints – like how to create two-and three-column CSS pages, look elsewhere. The author has nothing to offer on the topic except to send you to a website for the information.There are many scattered examples of CSS code in use, but a lot of the book is about overall page design, graphics editing and other related issues. I would have preferred a book with more CSS and less extraneous material.Overall a disappointing purchase, one that did not meet either my needs or my expectations.

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