Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

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Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 494
Publication Date: 2007-04-23
Sales Rank: 37586
ISBN / ASIN: 1590598040
EAN: 9781590598047
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress
Average Rating: 5

Design patterns have been used with great success in software programming. They improve productivity, creativity, and efficiency in web design and development, and they reduce code bloat and complexity. In the context of CSS and HTML, design patterns are sets of common functionality that work across various browsers and screen readers, without sacrificing design values or accessibility or relying on hacks and filters. But until now they have not been applied systematically to HTML and CSS web design and development.

With the help of Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, you can reap the benefits of using design patterns in your HTML and CSS code. The book provides you with all the CSS and HTML design patterns you need. Web development expert and author Michael Bowers then takes you through multiple design patterns for text, backgrounds, borders, images, forms, layouts, and much more. He shows you exactly how each one works, and how to use them most effectively in your own projects. After you learn about these design patterns, you'll wonder how you ever developed web sites without them!

Review:

the css genie

"Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns" is a valuable reference for using CSS on your website. You should be familiar with reading or writing CSS and have some experience with HTML for this book to be readable. In particular, you should feel comfortable with CSS syntax and high level concepts.

The book is still useful if you know CSS "a little" - you may have to read parts a few times. In particular, there are a few places were terms are defined after they are used. It's a bit of a catch 22 for the author as introducing those terms rely on the initial sections. There aren't many of these and all becomes clear by reading the patterns twice.

I liked the style of having code/screenshots on one side and the pattern/description/limitations on the other side of each two page set. This consistency made the book easy to follow. I particularly liked the emphasis of making the patterns accessible to people using different browsers, screenreaders and with Javascript disabled.

Some of the design patterns are teaching patterns to understand concepts and terminology. The rest are techniques you could want to use when designing a web page. Some techniques are self contained like styling text. The end of the book builds more complex patterns out of those that came before. The box model and layout ones are quite valuable.

The companion website lets you play with each pattern. In summary: buy this book!

Review:

best css book i bought so far

Hi there,
when it's about css book i must have the all ,i love css book. I always learn something new somewhere.
Some books disappointed me like "Transcending CSS", by Andy Clarke. I love this book anyway, i said it i love css book, but it wasn't hands on enough for me.

Hands on is exactly what "Pro CSS and HTML Design Pattern" is. You can find in this book a solution or an inspiration to any problem you ever encountered while learning or working with css. The structure of the book make things easy to browse and focus.

And it's real world solutions, you've got your html structure and the css explained.
Some of it seems very simple,and when you start reading it you go like How, did i bought this book for this. But the secret is that i break down any css property and buid up into more complex behaviour.

There is very nice section on the box model and how the different type of box models behave.

and it goes into neat little details as well.

i don't know about you , but i cried my eyes out for mozilla browser do not support display: inline-block. Now i know that there is a display:-moz-inline-box property which work almost same (but not quite).

so if you can't still really use it for advanced layout and browsers compatibility problems (internet explorer as usual), well you have a design pattern to emulate this behaviour with a bit more mark up but nothing's perfect.

I really love this book.

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