Feb 25, 2008 | Filed in: CSS, Fonts, Rants, Web Design
I’m seeing more and more websites that are not specifying the Lucida font correctly in web pages. I’m guessing the culprits are Mac users for one simple but obvious flaw. They specify Lucida Grande and/or Lucida Sans in their CSS and whilst this may be correct for Macs, the majority of internet users are on Windows and you need to call the correct font of Lucida Sans Unicode.
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Sep 15, 2007 | Filed in: Books, CSS, Reviews, Web Design
Author: Andy Budd, Simon Collison & Cameron Moll.
Publisher: Friends of Ed.
I had originally thumbed through this book, subtitled “Advanced Web Standard Solutions” in my local bookstore and shrugged it off as covering pretty much most of what I’d already digested from other popular CSS books. It wasn’t until a friend showed me some cool techniques from the book that I properly read though it and regretted not buying it sooner!
Though it’s aimed at the intermediate web designer, it is well written and I would certainly recommend this as an essential buy for all web designers. The book begins with Clear:Left’s Andy Budd provides most of the content starting with a chapter about well-structured and meaningful mark-up. It’s these best practices that will help catapult you into the realms of CSS Master! It then recaps on the box model, positioning and floats, making it easy for a beginner to pick up this book and run with it, before moving into the techniques, with clear and concise examples, including a couple of good chapters on bugs and hacks.
The final two chapters are where Simon Collison & Cameron Moll step in to demonstrate these examples in two real-world showcase websites. This book is absolutely the best book currently on offer for CSS web design.
Buy CSS Mastery at amazon.co.uk
Buy CSS Mastery at amazon.com
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Sep 15, 2007 | Filed in: Books, CSS, Reviews, Web Design
Author: Rachel Andrew.
Publisher: SitePoint.
This is one of the first CSS books I bought and I still feel it’s one of the best for those trying to make the jump from HTML table-layouts to XHTML & CSS layouts. My copy has done the rounds in my office and it’s one of the most worn-out, dog-eared books on our shelf which certainly says something about it’s popularity and usefulness!
What I like most is the way this book works. It’s based around questions, such as “How do I create rollovers in CSS without JavaScript?” or “How do create a fixed-width, centred, two-column layout?” with a solution, clear example images and discussion of the technique. If you’re buying your first CSS book then this is an essential purchase.
Buy The CSS Anthology at amazon.co.uk
Buy The CSS Anthology at amazon.com
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