Category: css
CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition
I have been a big fan of O’Reilly books since, well, a long time ago. My fascination goes beyond a fetish for collecting all the animals the books utilize on their covers, or even the fact that the books just seem cool. The books are cool, with great content and well written prose. Even better for a technical book, they are helpful and well thought out.
I’m beginning to amass a collection of CSS books as I am trying to learn all I can about how to best seperate the presentation layer from the content layer. My next CSS book purchase will be Christopher Schmitt’s CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition, published by O’Reilly Media. The second edition has been updated for IE7 and Firefox 1.5 and is of specific interest to me as I am looking for books and guides that can help me figure out how to make pages that look appropriate in CSS compliant browsers work in IE. From what I have seen of the book (I borrowed a copy from a work associate), this book may be a welcome addition to other CSS books (like Andy Budd’s CSS Mastery) that covers issues from different perspectives.
The bear on the cover kicks ass too.
Posted: 11.21.2006CSS For The Beginner
The basic premise of using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is to separate content from presentation for web pages. Anybody that has used styles in modern word-processing or publishing applications can attest to the fact that if properly used, styles can increase the consistency of publishing elements and improve the overall appearance of a document. As a side benefit, changes are easily made for all similar elements in a single place. CSS aims to do the same thing by separating content from presentation and layout instructions.
Posted: 06.21.2006