Jump Start CSS by Louis Lazaris

Jump Start CSS by Louis Lazaris

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

It covers:

• Layout techniques
• Images, backgrounds, text
• Navigation
• Getting fancy with CS3

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 CS in no time.

Estelle Weyl is a front-end engineer who has been developing standards-based accessible websites since 1999. She writes two technical blogs pulling millions of visitors and speaks about CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and mobile wed development at conferences around the world.

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.

Alexis Goldstein is a teacher and co-organizer of Girl Develop it, a group that conducts low-cost programming classes for woman, and a very proud member of the NYC Resistor hackerspace in Brooklyn, New York.