How To Master CSS

A personal note:

While playing around with an amazon store frame for my www.queenofcoins.com website I messed up my CSS file and even over wrote my old css file and I could not figure out how to fix it.

I realized that I really needed to buckle down and learn a little more about cascading style sheets before I started work on my next project.

Now I already I have two site point books on css and I have been looking through them but have not gotten it all under my belt. These two books are called “Build your web site the right way using HTML & CSS” and a book called “Designing Without Tables Using CSS” Both are books I bought through Site Point. They are very good and very comprehensive but I needed something quick and dirty to get some work done fast.

I turned to a book I had bought on line called “How to Master CSS” by Hilco van Meer. I got through it real fast and learned what I needed to know in one night. I feel somewhat like an expert now. I still intend to get into more detail with the other two books, because I am sure they have things in there that will add to this. But if you want to get going on CSS fast, I would say you need to read this book. How to Master CSS .

Here some more details about what is in the book.

* How To Master CSS, is simply your guide to becoming a master at CSS. It’s a step-by-step guide that teaches everything you need to become an true modern web designer. In 18 chapters, you will be guided through real-life examples that you can use immediately in your web sites. You'll:
-Discover where to start when you want to create your first CSS web site (page 7)
-Discover Step-By-Step how you can influence your HTML with Cascading Style sheets (page 18)
-Do you know exactly when you need to use IDs and/or classes in your HTML code? Find out on page 24!
-Do you understand the main building block of Cascading Style Sheets? Discover the ins and outs of The Box Model! (page 29)
-The very best ways to style your text, from underlining, to coloring and from Capitals to the first letter of the paragraph. It can all be styled using CSS! (step-by-step explained in chapter 4)
-The techniques that show you exactly how you can create perfect borders on your web site elements, only one rule of code to create a full border on any element! (page 37)
-The tiny adjustment that can make your links look like you want them to look. (page 52)
-The surprising method to create flexible image rollovers without having the browser to preload your images! (all explained step-by-step on page 56)
-How to float and position your elements so that you have a flexible and easy to manage web site. (page 62)
-REVEALED: How to style your tables so you have exact control of how they look and what they present. (page 71)
-An ingeniously simple secret to define your background images on your web site and on any element you wish to have a background! (page 78)
-The very best ways to style your lists with images and other pre-defined items. (page 85)
-How to create a CSS menu the very best way from start to finish. Read it in the "menu chapters" 12 and 13!
-Discover how you can prepare your web page for the printer without having to create a "click here for printer version" page. (page 103)
-How to create perfect colored forms with CSS so you can blend them in with the rest of your web site. (page 107)
-The little-known secret that shows you how you can center your web site horizontally and vertically with just 8 rules of code! (page 114)
-REVEALED: a step-by-step explanation of a 3 column layout that works in practically every browser known today!
And much more.
* Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll discover in “How To Master CSS”:
-You’ll be taken by hand to get started with CSS.
-How to make sure all visitors can read your site with ease, even those who are visually impaired!
-You’ll learn the facts about what Web browsers ( like Internet Explorer) do if you open a web page on your screen.
-How to use the CSS Box Model to its full potential!
-You’ll discover exactly how you can style your regular text to make it more readable and make it look more interesting
-You’ll discover how to create newspaper style headings
-You’ll discover how to modify the appearance of your links.
-Want to know how you can create graphical buttons with a rollover that do not need pre loading?
-Need to know how floating and positioning works? How To Master CSS covers it all.
-Find out how to change the appearance of your cursor.
-How to style your tables and the data within to make it more appealing to your public.
-How to create all kinds of effects using background images.
-You ever saw a list with special bullets like the checkboxes you are reading right now? In How To Master CSS I’ll take you by hand and explain how you can create this yourself!
-Discover how you can create pure CSS menus by using just a small amount of code but gain great flexibility by working like this.
* You'll also learn:
-Are you new to Cascading Style Sheets? "How To Master CSS" will give you that strong ground that you need to stand on.
-Do you want to know what the possibilities are with CSS?
-Do you want to know how you can wrap your page so that it is centered in the user’s browser?
-Want to know how you can customize the look of form elements?
-Want to know how you can create your web site without using tables?
-Use fully compliant CSS to let your web sites work in all of the latest browsers. This way, you can make sure your web site works in the future!
-How to create table like sites using Cascading Style Sheets only.
-How to position elements properly, fast, easy, and with great flexibility
-Start using CSS to not only style your text, but use it to create your whole web site with it!
-Create web sites that can be viewed by all major browsers, also on that Mac
-How to start with the basics and get to use more advanced techniques later on.
-Quick learn answers are used to cut right down to what it’s all about: hands on techniques!
-Discover how you can prepare your web site for the printer – without creating a separate “print version” page.
* Price: $37.77 Get Ebook now: How to Master CSS .

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