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03/20/06
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CSS Mastery
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James McNally
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Articles and White Papers
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| Many of us have become intimate with Web standards only through trial and error, and rely on a handful of techniques to make things work and look good. If you could use a little book-based back-to-the-basics, dive into Andy Budd’s CSS Mastery.
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01/16/06
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CSS Typography
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Garrett Dimon
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Articles and White Papers
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| The finicky world of CSS isn’t the best match for the precise art of typography, but you can do more to improve the readability and beauty of your Web pages than you think. Defy the typographic limitations of the Web and refine your design with a wide range of techniques presented by Garrett Dimon.
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10/24/05
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Interview with Mark Trammell
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D. Keith Robinson
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Quotes, Interviews and Expert Advice
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| Higher education is years behind and doing a bad job of teaching young developers about Web standards. Mark Trammell chats about his academia angle in Professional CSS, and why it’s essential in a spate of seminal Web books.
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08/08/05
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An Interview with Christopher Schmitt
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Krista Stevens
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Quotes, Interviews and Expert Advice
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| The Web is bursting with outstanding designers and CSS gurus—but the list of people who are both is still pretty small. Christopher Schmitt managed to get a good chunk of the double-threat A-listers to work with him on his new project, the book everyone’s blogging about: Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design. Get the inside dish from the guy who put it all together.
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07/25/05
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An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
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Carolyn Wood
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Quotes, Interviews and Expert Advice
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| Despite valiant efforts to dodge the limelight, Ethan Marcotte is undeniably a CSS rock star. In his chapter in the just-released Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, he surveys planning and development of CSS projects so you can get past code and design with a clear head. Digital Web Magazine takes him to task for bunny haikus, gets a long hyperlinked list of inspirations, and digs up the chemical secret behind what Molly Holzschlag calls his "endless good cheer."
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07/18/05
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Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching
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Christopher Schmitt, Mark Trammell, Ethan Marcotte, Todd Dominey & Dunstan Orchard
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Articles and White Papers
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| In Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, CSS superstars Christopher Schmitt, Todd Dominey, Dunstan Orchard, Mark Trammell and Ethan Marcotte tackle the sites that made them famous. Learn techniques for democratizing design through the use of style sheet switching in this free chapter, "Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching."
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07/18/05
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Architecting CSS
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Garrett Dimon
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Articles and White Papers
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| With today’s acceptably cooperative browsers, implementing CSS-based designs is simply routine. But our gleeful tweaking and hacking is creating bigger, more complex style sheets. Without standards to turn to, how do we organize, segment and maintain CSS files? Find out how to whip your CSS into shape with Garrett Dimon’s guide to planning and architecting CSS.
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02/23/05
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The Zen of CSS Design
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Karen Morrill-McClure
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Articles and White Papers
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| Karen Morrill-McClure reviews Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag's soon-to-be-published The Zen of CSS Design, a comprehensive resource on using CSS with an emphasis on design.
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04/23/04
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CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows
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Sergio Villarreal
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Steps and Presentations
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| God is in the details. The techniques shown here not only produce soft-edged, fuzzy shadows, but they can also be used to achieve all sorts of creative effects.
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02/27/04
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CSS Drop Shadows
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Sergio Villarreal
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Steps and Presentations
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| What if we had a technique to build flexible CSS drop shadows that can be applied to arbitrary block elements? That can expand as the content of the block changes shape? Compatible with most modern browsers? With better results for standards-compliant browsers?
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02/02/04
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CSS Design: Custom Underlines
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Stuart Robertson
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Steps and Presentations
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| Link underlines? Boring. Removal of underlines? Been there, done that. Take creative control of the way your links look with custom underlines.
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07/16/03
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HTML Utopia: Chapter 5: Building the Skeleton
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SitePoint Books
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Steps and Presentations
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| This chapter focuses specifically on creating the basic structural layout of a Web page or site using CSS.
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07/08/03
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HTML Utopia: Chapter 4: CSS Web Site Design
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Sitepoint
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Steps and Presentations
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| In the past few chapters, I've touched on a number of the powerful features of, and reasons for, using CSS for site layout. In this section, I'll formalize those arguments and present them all in one place. Not only do I hope to convince you of the merits of CSS, but I hope to give you the tools to sell others on the technology.
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06/30/03
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HTML Utopia: Chapter 3: Digging Below the Surface
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Sitepoint
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Steps and Presentations
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| This chapter completes our look at the "mechanics" of CSS: the background you need to have to work with the technology.
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06/25/03
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HTML Utopia: Chapter 1: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
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SitePoint Books
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Steps and Presentations
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| We can look at Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) from a number of contextual perspectives. I prefer to view them as a correction to a fundamental mistake that was made at the beginning of Web Time, back in the old days of the early 1990s, when Tim Berners-Lee and the first pioneering Web builders first envisioned the beginnings of the Web.
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06/20/03
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A (CSS) Horse of a Different Color - Part 1
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Keith Schengili-Roberts
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Steps and Presentations
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06/10/03
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CSS Tutorial
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CNET
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Steps and Presentations
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05/18/02
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W3C CSS Validation Service
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W3C
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Downloadable File
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03/01/02
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Tables or CSS: Choosing a layout
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Craig Saila
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Articles and White Papers
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12/17/01
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Simple CSS drop shadows
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Craig Saila
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Steps and Presentations
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07/01/97
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Effective Use of Style Sheets
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useit.com: Jakob Nielsen’s Website
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Articles and White Papers
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