TY - BOOK AU - McFarland,David Sawyer TI - CSS : : the missing manual / SN - 9780596802448 U1 - 006.74 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Sebastopol, CA : PB - O’Reilly Media, Inc., KW - Cascading style sheets KW - Web site development KW - Computer graphics KW - Web sites KW - Design KW - Web publishing N1 - "Designing beautiful web sites with CSS"--Cover; Includes index; Part 1. CSS basics. Rethinking HTML for CSS -- Creating styles and style sheets -- Selector basics: identifying what to style -- Saving time with inheritance -- Managing multiple styles: the cascade -- Part 2. Applied CSS. Formatting text -- Margins, padding, and borders -- Adding graphics to web pages -- Sprucing up your site’s navigation -- Formatting tables and forms -- Part 3. CSS page layout. Building float-based layouts -- Positioning elements on a web page -- Part 4. Advanced CSS. CSS for the printed page -- Improving your CSS habits N2 - This book combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Create HTML that’s simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS, style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders. Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that do not require using old techniques like HTML tables and turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages, and style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows ER -