For those into CSS, this is apparently *the* CSS book to get for webdesigners. The price is a bit steep, $40, but all of the hands-on projects that are in the book are also on his website and can be downloaded as zip files!
http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com > ((((((((((((((((( WEBREFERENCE UPDATE NEWSLETTER ))))))))))))))))) > July 25, 2002 > > As promised, this week we review Eric Meyer's new book "Eric Meyer > on CSS" by New Riders. The book is an assemblage of 13 redesign > projects using, you guessed it, CSS. Meyer is a master at this, and > makes the whole process seem easy showing a bug-free path through > the maze we know as CSS. In other voices Digital Web Magazine > reviews "The Weblog Handbook," and SURL compares three news > formats for usability. In Net news this week Salon and Userland partner, > AOL says they can't afford to make their IM compatible, and IBM > and Opera will develop a voice-enabled multimode browser. > > Eric Meyer is the acknowledged master of CSS, the new styling > mechanism for the Web. His newest book, which completes a > CSS book trilogy, reflects this vast experience. On the surface > this book is a collection of 13 redesign projects, each > illustrating different aspects of CSS layout techniques and > HTML. Underneath is a philosophy, a way of thinking, and a > collection of ideas. The book makes CSS look relatively easy, > when in fact it's not. > > The projects illustrate (in full color) how to rework existing > designs in CSS, from the simple to the sublime. As you're reading > the book, you get the feeling Meyer isn't fighting the medium, > he's working with it in almost a Zen-like way. Tables can stay and > be styled or go, it doesn't seem to matter to him. > > Meyer works within browser bugs and limitations and shows a hack- > free path through CSS layout and font styling techniques. Only in > the last chapter, where he nearly recreates the layout of the book > in CSS, does he resort to voice family hacks to work around browser > bugs. > > Each of the thirteen projects has the same basic framework. He > strips example designs down to pure structural HTML and builds > them back up, CSS layer by CSS layer until the design technique is > recreated. Everything from hyperlink styles and menu skinning, > print style sheets, forms, multicolumn layouts, fixing backgrounds, > and recreating the book's own layout in CSS is covered, not an easy > task. > > Meyer's prose is also easy to take, peppered with pithy quotes and > humorous headlines. The net effect feels like you are looking over > his shoulder, watching and listening to him redesign web sites that > will be "forward compatible" and made to last. Meyer makes > learning CSS seem easy. As Jeffrey Zeldman wrote in the foreword, > I don't know how he does it. Highly recommended. > > Eric Meyer on CSS > By Eric Meyer > New Riders Publishing, $45 > ISBN: 0-7357-1245-X > > http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com Subscribe info for WebReference, it's a pretty nifty newsletter: > Like what you see? Get our front page e-mailed to you every > business day with our HTML newsletter. Just send an e-mail to: > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > or for this text newsletter: > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] alice ttlg http://idiotbox.populli.net/ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ I've found Jesus...he was behind the sofa the whole time. _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
