Jump Start CSS - Get up to speed with CSS on a weekend

This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language used to style and lay out all web pages. This book will quickly get you up to speed with the fundamentals of CSS and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

It covers:

Layout techniques
Images, backgrounds, text
Navigation
Getting fancy with CSS3

The book is built around a real-life example project: a recipe website design. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way.

This is a clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow book that will get you to to speed with CSS in no time.

About the author

Louis Lazaris is a freelance web designer and front-end developer. He has been involved in web design since the days when table layouts and one-pixel GIF's dominated the industry. Louis writes for a number of top web design blogs including his own site, Impressive Webs.

Product details

• Authors: Lazaris, Louis Lazaris
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9780987467447
• ISBN: 978-0-9874674-4-7
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 334 g
• Illustrations: w. ill.
• Series: Sitepoint
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > North and Central America