CSS: The Missing Manual, by David McFarland

April 30, 2009 · Filed Under CSS, Dreamweaver, Web design · Comment 

This is a CSS-bible you will probably sooner or later need. You may as well get it now! It has 500 pages of CSS help, with more than 100 pages of CSS: The Missing Manual practical tutorials to guide you through the process of implementing and refining CSS to save you many a wasted hour.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is here to stay. But CSS isn’t just a tool to pretty up your site; it’s a reliable method for handling all kinds of presentational issues on your site: from fonts and colors to page layout. CSS: The Missing Manual explains this powerful design language in a clear, logical, easy to grasp manner, and shows how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.

Author David McFarland (who is also the bestselling author of O’Reilly’s Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual) combines clear explanations, great examples, good humor, and step-by-step tutorials to show you how design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. You learn:

  • Create HTML that’s simpler and is search-engine friendly
  • Turn HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars
  • Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects
  • Make HTML forms look great
  • Overcome browser bugs
  • Create complex layouts using CSS

A wonderful book, and a great reference manual!

Link to this book at amazon US and amazon UK.

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 and 4 Web Premium: All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies

February 15, 2009 · Filed Under Adobe Inc, Computer software, Dreamweaver, Web design · Comment 

The most useful book of all for people that uses Creative Suite 3 (or 4) Web Premium from Adobe (as we do). This package has so many programs, with so many useful features, and learning them all is almost impossible Creative Suite Web 3 Premiumunless you are a full time programmer. But with this neat all-in-one book, all these great programs and their functionality is at your fingertips! For sure, there is still a learning curve, but you can get started pretty quickly, and you have a great reference tool and lots of tips and hint to help you whenever you get stuck.

The “for Dummies“-manuals that are lumped into one in this book are for Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, Contribute, and Acrobat, all of them in the CS3-version. This is a stunning package, and the various programs work together relatively seamlessly.

To us, the book has been a great resource to have availble. So far it has helped us fixing problems using Flash CS3, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. If you’ve invested in getting these programs, or plan to do so in the near future, then having books around that can function as a reference manual for them makes sense. Especially when you can get one book that covers them all. That really gives you the value you have earned for your money!

Check for Dummies – Web Suite all in one on amazon US or on amazon UK: All in one for dummies

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