Book Details:
By Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
ISBN-10: 0-321-72213-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-72213-3
Pages: 320
Publisher: Peachpit New Riders
About the Book
CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web’s visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to the user’s unique device or screen size without JavaScript.
You’ll learn how to accomplish these effects and more by working through a series of practical yet cutting-edge projects. Each chapter walks you through standalone exercises that you can integrate into projects you’re working on, or use as inspiration. You’ll learn all of the most popular, useful, and well-supported CSS3 techniques, plus:
How to use CSS3 to enhance your pages, not just in terms of looks, but also in terms of usability, accessibility, and efficiency
When and how to provide workarounds and fallbacks for older, non-supporting browsers
How to create stunning designs with unique typography and beautiful graphic details
Advanced new selectors to streamline your markup and make it less prone to human errors
New methods for creating multiple-column layouts
How to quickly and easily create mobile-optimized web designs without using scripting
CSS3, the newest version of the style sheet language of the web, is less about creating new effects and more about accomplishing the beautiful web design effects you’re familiar with in fantastic new ways—ways that are more efficient and produce more usable and flexible results than the techniques we’ve been using for the last decade.
CSS3 is still changing and evolving, as are browsers to support it and web designers to figure out how best to use it. CSS3 can create some stunningly beautiful and cool effects, as you’ll see throughout this book. But if these effects aren’t practical for real-world sites right now, what’s the point? In this book, I’ll focus on teaching you the cutting-edge CSS techniques that can truly improve your sites and are ready to be used in your work right away.
This book is not an encyclopedia or reference guide to CSS3; it won’t teach you every single property, selector, and value that’s new to CSS since version 2.1. Instead, it will teach you the most popular, useful, and well-supported pieces of CSS3 through a series of practical but innovative projects. Each chapter (after Chapter 1) walks you through one or more exercises involving the new techniques of CSS3 to produce a finished web page or section of a page. You can adapt these exercises to your own projects, or use them as inspiration for completely different ways to creatively use the new properties, selectors, and values you’ve learned.
In some ways, CSS3 is a new way of thinking as much as a new way of developing your pages. It can be hard to think of how to use the new border-image property, for instance, when you’ve been making web sites for years and aren’t used to having the option of using an image for the border of a box. Because of this, I’ve included a list of ideas for how to use each CSS3 property, selector, and value I cover, beyond just the single way we use it in the exercise. I hope to provide you with plenty of inspiration for how to put the CSS3 techniques you’re learning to work in your own projects, plus the technical know-how to make sure you can use CSS3 comfortably and efficiently.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The CSS3 Lowdown
Chapter 2 Speech Bubbles
Chapter 3 Notebook Paper
Chapter 4 Styling Images and Links by Type
Chapter 5 Improving Efficiency Using Pseudo-classes
Chapter 6 Different Screen Size, Different Design
Chapter 7 Flexing Your Layout Muscles
Appendix A Browser Support
Index
About the Author
Zoe Mickley Gillenwater is an experienced web designer, project manager and technical author, active in the web standards community. She uses her expert knowledge of CSS, XHTML, Dreamweaver, accessibility, and visual design in all aspects of her career. Zoe leads the design and development efforts of dozens of information-rich web sites and applications. Her work has focused on creating web sites that combine beautiful aesthetics with standards compliance, usability, and accessibility best practices.
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