My publisher has graciously posted the first chapter of my book online, free for download. The chapter, “Rethinking HTML for CSS” provides helpful advice on how to write HTML that works well with CSS. It’s really just a tease, however, because the REALLY cool stuff like building CSS-driven layouts, interactive navigation bars, and formatting really stylish text comes in the later chapters.
The long-awaited (at least by me) release of CSS: The Missing Manual is at hand. Amazon has the book in stock.
Just completed final edits on my new book, CSS: The Missing Manual. This book provides easy to understand and comprehensive information on the most useful (and confusing) Web design technology: Cascading Style Sheets. If you’re new to CSS, this book lays the groundwork you need to get started then takes you through advanced CSS concepts and techniques in the same friendly, straightforward style as my Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual.
Intermediate and advanced Web designers will find plenty of useful information as well: from solid solutions to Internet Explorer bugs, to the latest techniques to make your pages look great. The book includes over 100 pages of hands-on tutorials, a comprehensive CSS reference, and in-depth coverage of CSS-based layout, building navigation bars with CSS, creating printer-only style sheets, and more.
It’s shipping in August and you can order it now at Amazon.
If you weren’t fortunate enough to get down to Sydney,Australia for the 2005 Web Essentials conference, you can still tap into its collective wisdom via podcast. Web Essentials included presentations and workshops from some of the most influential thinkers, writers and practitioners of standards-based Web design (I guess my speaker invitation must have been lost in the mail.)
The WE2005 organizers and presenters were generous enough to let the world listen in on the thoughts of these great speakers. You can download the podcasts at http://we05.com/podcast/. In addition, many of the presentation materials and slides are available from the site.
It’s like having a $2000 conference right in your living room!
Buy them today!
