Mon, 02 Oct 2006
CSS: the missing manual
David Sawyer McFarland, CDD: The Missing Manual,
Pogue Press/O'Reilly
I wonder how many people who play around with web pages
actually bother to do more than collect CSS components and
assemble them in an hoc way. If you're just wandering the web
looking for info it's easy to get little bits to do with this
and that but quite hard to find a proper course.
Well, here it is. This book takes you through the basics and
then introduces you to various interesting things you can do.
One of the interesting things is that style sheets enable
lots of cool looking things that can't be done with plain
HTML. Just give me the functional text, you say? Well, this
sort of thing can be used just for pure eye candy (and why not?)
but can also be used to aid the function of understanding by
the use of clever layout etc. Another functional plus of CSS
is that pages become smaller and redoing a whole site with
external style sheets becomes a very small job. But you
already knew that.
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