This book is for designers who understand CSS at an intermediate to advanced level, but who are looking to learn how to effectively develop CSS-enabled designs at a professional level.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
What you will learn from this book
- The preliminaries you need to iron out before you begin a site in order to avoid problems later
- How to tackle browser-compatibility issues
- Best practices for using XHTML with CSS
- How to successfully integrate Flash content into an XHTML and CSS site
- Using drop shadows, drop-down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers
- Ways to develop a site that can reliably handle constant streams of up-to-date information
Chapter 1: The Planning and Development of Your Site.
Chapter 2: Best Practices for XHTML and CSS.
Chapter 3: Blogger: Rollovers and Design Improvements.
Chapter 4: The PGA Championship.
Chapter 5: The University of Florida.
Chapter 6: ESPN.com: Powerful Layout Changes.
Chapter 7: FastCompany.com: Building a Flexible Three-Column Layout.
Chapter 8: Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching.
Chapter 9: Bringing It All Together.
Appendix A: HTML 4.01 Elements.
Appendix B: Rules for HTML-to-XHTML Conversion.
Appendix C: CSS 2.1 Properties.
Appendix D: Troubleshooting CSS Guide.
Index.