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Meant mainly for web designers, this demonstration site shows the incredible power of CSS -- Cascading Style Sheets -- for web sites. Compliance with online standards doesn't have to be ugly, and this site proves it. When you land on this site, you can select the style sheet that controls the site's look. Click on a few: you'll see that changing only the "style sheet" can have dramatic consequences to the layout, the design, the entire look of the site. Fonts, sizes, colors. Even the placement of things on the page. We're about to do a complete redesign of the This is True site, and we'll be doing a CSS-based design. If you grasp the css Zen Garden, you'll understand why we're doing it that way. Awesome. From This is True for 5 June 2005 Suggestions for further reading:
 by David Sawyer McFarland Amazon Price: $23.09 Customer Review: I checked out three other CSS books from the library before trying this one. This was the best by far. The progression of topics is logical, and the pacing is good too. The tutorials do a great job of demonstrating the topics, and the logical arrange...  by David Sawyer McFarland Amazon Price: $29.69 Customer Review: There are some very good reviews here so I'm not going to go into too much detail about the book. I just wanted to add my 5 stars because I think it's a very good book. I had also purchased the How-to 100 essential techniques book and reviewed it wit...  by Cody Lindley Amazon Price: $23.09 Customer Review: This book is an excellent all around guide to JQuery. I was pretty new to JQuery and feel like this is a great introduction showcasing JQuery's capabilities, as well as great reference for seasoned JQuery developers.  by Elisabeth Robson, Eric T Freeman Amazon Price: $26.39 Customer Review: I've browsed through and purchased many html books. Head First HTML is by far the best for learning html. One of the main reasons is the method this book uses makes it fun to learn which keeps you from having to drink lots of caffeine to stay awake. ...  by David Flanagan Amazon Price: $31.49 Customer Review: I am an experienced programmer, well versed in languages I have learned from O'Reilly books. I read this book cover to cover a couple of years ago. It certainly is thorough. I have just spent six hours trying to hook in a simple javasc... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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