Spring Into HTML and CSS
by Molly E. Holzschlag
Molly is one of our favorite authors when it comes to the Web. She and Lynda Weinman stand out as the number one choices.
Need to build a web site? Or update one? Or just create some effective new web content? Maybe you just need to update your skills, do the job better.
Welcome. This book's for you. We'll leverage what you already know about the web, so you'll go further, faster than you ever expected. You'll master today's best practices: the real nuts and bolts, not theory or hooey. You'll learn through dozens of focused HTML, XHTML, and CSS examples: crafted for simplicity and easy to adapt for your own projects.
Need specific solutions? This book's modular, visual, high-efficiency format delivers them instantly. Molly E. Holzschlag draws on her unparalleled experience teaching Web design and development. No other HTML/CSS guide covers this much, this well, this quickly. Dig in, get started, get results!
- All you need to succeed with HTML, XHTML, and CSS in real-world projects
- Learn how to build web pages that'll work in any environment, on virtually any contemporary browser
- Construct templates that simplify every page you develop
- Structure and tag text so it's easy to work with and manage
- Add images, media, and scriptsÑquickly and reliably
- Discover the right ways to use HTML tables
- Build easy-to-use forms and validate your users' input
- Use CSS to take total control over your site's look and feel
- Master core CSS techniques: color, images, text styles, link effects, lists, navigation, and more
- Control margins, borders, padding, positioning, floats, even Z-index
- Design efficient, compatible, easy-to-manage CSS layouts
Includes concise XHTML and CSS annotated references: quick help for every language element
Molly E. Holzschlag
Molly is a two-time Design Bookshelf "BEST BOOK" award winner. Coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web," there is little doubt that in the world of web design and development, Molly E. Holzschlag is a vibrant and influential thinker, teacher, and author. With more than 30 web development book titles to her credit, Molly is a Steering Committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an advisory board member to the World Organization of Webmasters. She also has taught Webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, University of Phoenix, New School University, and Pima Community College. Many recognize Molly from her books, feature articles, and popular web site, molly.com.
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Spring Into HTML and CSS
by Molly E. Holzschlag
Paperback: 336 pages; Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (April 22, 2005); List Price: $29.99 - buy now: Price: $19.79 and You Save: $10.20 (34%)
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