Ultimate Beginner's Guide To CSS
October 25, 2009
Is probably my most used reference when it comes to working on any website, whether that site is a static web page, a Wordpress or Drupal website etc...
(CSS) Cascading Style Sheets have become the standard to good website design. Knowing and understanding how it all works is confusing at times.
The book HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew & Dan Shafer was designed for beginner to intermediate web designers. Those who have a strong understanding of html.
Yet, I found that while going through the html learning curve, CSS is just as important to achieve your desired results.
Starting from simple CSS layouts to three column web sites this book covers it all. Seeing how it all works and working with the code examples gives you that confidence to create and edit your site.
Today, I can look at a web template and quickly determine just how good of a design it is and if necessary fix the errors quickly if necessary.
The books chapters:
- Getting the Lay of the Land.
- Putting CSS Into Perspective.
- Digging Below the Surface.
- Validation and Backward Compatibility.
- Splashing Around With a bit of Color.
- Working With Fonts.
- Text Effects and the Cascade.
- Simple CSS Layout.
- Three-Column Layouts.
- Fixed-width Layouts
Along with the Appendix:
- CSS Miscellany.
- CSS Color Reference.
- CSS Property Reference.
Cover just about everything you'll run across when it comes to designing your website without tables and implementing CSS effectively.
I cannot even begin to count the number of times it has helped me for example when on this site I wanted the thumbnail images floated left, while the main graphic was centered, all done with CSS.
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