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oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: CSS: The Missing Manual

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I'm a network geek and my website has never really caught up with what I'm really doing. So when I got a website template built for  me, I found a baffling array of HTML code in the artist's template. Out of self defense I've been carving off the learning curve one feature at a time and have gotten more than a bit frustrated at how much I've missed by not paying attention to concepts like inheritance, Doctype, and just the whole concept of separating the style sheet from my content. The O'Reilly Missing Manual series again comes to the rescue with a book on Cascading Style Sheets (aka CSS) and how some up front work can save you an incredible amount of time and help your technical site stay in your organization's overall look and feel.

Brian Chee, Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld Media Group

CSS: The Missing Manual

By David Sawyer McFarland
First Edition August 2006 
Pages: 494 (More details)

Book description

Cascading Style Sheets are now a reliable method for handling all kinds of Web page presentations -- from fonts and colors to page layout. But due to CSS's complexity most designers treat it as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites without tapping into the real power of CSS. CSS: The Missing Manual clearly explains this powerful design tool and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites, or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.

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Posted by Brian Chee on October 4, 2006 01:51 PM

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