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CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web’s visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to the user’s unique device or screen size without JavaScript.
You’ll learn how to accomplish these effects and more by working through a series of practical yet cutting-edge projects. Each chapter walks you through standalone exercises that you can integrate into projects you’re working on, or use as inspiration. You’ll learn all of the most popular, useful, and well-supported CSS3 techniques, plus:
Chapter 1 The CSS3 Lowdown Chapter 2 Speech Bubbles Chapter 3 Notebook Paper Chapter 4 Styling Images and Links by Type Chapter 5 Improving Efficiency Using Pseudo-classes Chapter 6 Different Screen Size, Different Design Chapter 7 Flexing Your Layout Muscles Appendix A Browser Support Index
Anonymous
Posted July 15, 2011
This book is designed for moderately experienced web designers who want to take their skills to a higher level by applying the enhanced web designing techniques and procedures that this book so aptly teaches and demonstrates. By using clear and compelling examples,most competent and ambitious web designers can readily apply the stunning lessons that are given in each chapter of this book successfully and achieve impressive results. Nervous novice web-designers be warned, if you cannot even understand the terms and topics that are listed in this book's table of contents, this book is definitely not designed for your current skill level and aptitudes. This author possesses awesome visual, verbal,and technical skills. Bravo!
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Posted March 16, 2013
will definitely not buy a book like this without at least being able to see the table of contents in the sample. I've never seen a sample without the table of contents. wow, somebody hiding something?
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Posted March 30, 2012
This book is for persons already familiar with coding. Excellent examples and easy o use.
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Posted May 14, 2011
What good is a sample when you're only given up through the table of contents to read?!?!
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Overview
CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web’s visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to the user’s unique device or screen size without JavaScript.
You’ll learn how to ...