• Author:
  • York, Richard
• Subject:
  Internet Guides & Online Services
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
• Published:
  31/03/2006
• Price:
  $52.99
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CSS Instant Results helps you quickly master and implement the diverse web applications CSS enables for web designers. The book is centered around ten ready-to-use projects with all the code for all the projects included on the books CD-ROM - that you can use immediately. CSS Instant Results dives into working code so you can learn it rapidly. The book and code projects are written for web developers and designers who are looking to learn how to use CSS for better, faster design and markup. Some previous JavaScript use is helpful.

Each of the 10 project features step-by-step set-up instructions with a description of each project that enables you to understand and then modify it so you can reuse it in different situations.

The code has been tested with several browsers including Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, and Safari 1.3 for Mac OS X. The 10 projects covered in the book with complete source-code on the CD are:

• Tab-based navigation
• Multi-column layouts
• Dynamic dropdown menus
• A different approach to the dropdown menu
• Web-based slideshow
• Custom borders and rounded corners
• Applying CSS to a webmail application
• Styling input forms
• User interface for a web-based file viewer
• Styling a web-based calendar

Richard York is a web application developer for Trilithic, Inc., a company specializing in test equipment for the telecommunications industry. He wrote his first book, Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design (Wrox Press) in 2004.
Richard began his web development career taking courses at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Since college, he has continued a self-imposed curriculum, mastering various technologies used in web development including HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. An avid supporter of open source software, he has written an open source webmail application for PHP PEAR, and is currently working on an open source PHP library and framework called Hierophant, which he hopes to release in 2006.
Richard maintains a personal web site at http://www.richard-york.com where you can learn more about his professional and personal interests.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Tab.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

What the IE7 JavaScript Provides for This Project.

Using and Modifying the Project.

Tabs with Background Images.

Background Images That Include Text.

Liquid Tabs.

Chapter 2: Multi-column Layouts.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Using and Modifying this Project.

Two-Column Layout.

Liquid Secondary Columns.

The Float Method.

Good, Old-Fashioned Internet Explorer Hacking.

Chapter 3: Dynamic Drop-Down Menus.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Other Caveats.

Using and Modifying the Project.

Implementing JavaScript-enabled Drop-Down Menus.

Custom Backgrounds and Borders.

Drop Down, Not Sideways!

Chapter 4: More Dynamic Drop-down Menus and the Incredible, Versatile :target.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Chapter 5: Slide Show.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Chapter 6: Custom Borders and Rounded Corners.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Using and Modifying the Project.

Chapter 7: Applying CSS to a Webmail Application.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Using and Modifying the Project.

Adding a Message Preview Pane.

Three-Column Layout a la Microsoft Outlook 2003.

Chapter 8: Styling Input Forms.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Chapter 9: User-Interface for a Web-based File Viewer.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Laying the Foundation.

Applying Menus.

Styling a Directory Tree.

Styling Multiple Methods of Viewing a Directory’s Contents.

CSS Popup Windows.

Testing and Caveats.

Using and Modifying the Project.

Windows Details View.

Save As Dialog.

Choose a Directory Dialog.

Chapter 10: Calendar.

Design.

Code and Code Explanation.

Testing and Caveats.

Using and Modifying the Project.

Index.