CSS: The Missing Manual, by David McFarland

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

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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