Stunning CSS3: A project-based guide to the latest in CSS - Softcover

Gillenwater, Zoe Mickley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321722132 ISBN 13: 9780321722133

Publisher: New Riders, 2010

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Zoe Mickley Gillenwater is an experienced graphic and web designer, developer, and consultant who is passionate about making web sites work well for as diverse an audience as possible, while still using innovative new CSS techniques for the latest browsers. She is the author of Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS and the video training title Web Accessibility Principles. She has also written nearly 100 articles and tutorials for sites like Smashing Magazine and Community MX on a variety of web design and development topics. Zoe is currently a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force and was a moderator of the popular CSS-discuss mailing list. She speaks at national conferences on CSS, visual design, and accessibility. Find out more about Zoe at www.zomigi.com, or follow her on Twitter @zomigi.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Riders
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321722132
• ISBN 13: 9780321722133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320