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Eric Meyer on Css: Mastering the Language of Web Design 1st Edition

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There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus information is be posted.

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  1. ISBN-10
    9780735712454
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0735712454
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    New Riders Pub
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 2003
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    8.25 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches
  8. Print length
    350 pages
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If you were looking for someone to help you understand how to use CSS effectively in real-world projects that would be compatible across browsers, who would you go to? That one's easy -- Eric Meyer -- the guy web professionals call the CSS master or guru! Eric always wanted to add a third leg to the "two-legged stool" of CSS books he has written. I was fortunate enough to have the pleasure of working with Eric to make a practical project-based guide to CSS a reality.

Eric targeted this book at folks who have a pretty good knowledge of HTML and at least a basic knowledge of CSS. For those of you in that category, you'll love this book. You really get to work right along side Eric as he takes you through the progressively more advanced projects. This is one book you'll truly want to have on your desk if you want to incorporate CSS into your work!

In order to provide you with the resources you need on CSS in particular and web development in general, it's important to me to hear what you think about this book -- and what you'd like to see in future offerings. Please share your thoughts by emailing me at nrfeedback@newriders.com.

Enjoy!

Linda Bump Sr. Acquisitions Editor, New Riders Publishing

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There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus information is be posted.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 073571245X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Riders Pub; 1st edition (January 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780735712454
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735712454
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches
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Eric A. Meyer

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Eric A. Meyer starting working on the web in late 1993. A past member of the CSS Working Group, he is the author of several acclaimed CSS books as well as many articles on CSS and web standards. More recently, he co-founded the conference series An Event Apart with Jeffrey Zeldman and speaks about web standards all over the world. In recognition of his work, he was inducted into the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006.

A longtime resident of Cleveland, Ohio—which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe—Eric used to be a weekly radio presence on WRUW 91.1-FM with a show covering the Big Band era. He now spends most of his free time reading, searching out great dishes, and playing with his wife and daughters.

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Mrs Cat
5.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating Fun, and You Learn A Lot, Too.
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2004
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I have been working my way through On CSS, and when I picked it up I thought I was very wise in the way of cascading style sheets. Mr. Meyers disabused me of that notion. He is an expert and by working through the examples you can really learn to make this system of styling sit up and bark. A note on the back cover says the book is for intermediate to advanced people, the note is correct. Don't buy this book if you are just trying to learn CSS at first. I think some of the disappointed buyers were too new at style sheets to get the expected benefit out of this book. Newbies would do well to investigate Elizabeth Castro's HTML For The World Wide Web by Peachpit Press and all the W3C.org tutorials out there before tackling a man like Meyers. But if you're ready for Eric, Eric is ready for you.

One thing you have to remember, play with the examples after you do them. Try to break them, and don't just follow along without understanding what you are doing. If you try to follow Meyers like a cookbook you will really let yourself down. This is a great learning tool, worth the time and money investments.

Another great feature of On CSS is something which you might think was a miserable drawback at first, but it turns out to be where you can get the most out of the book. The designs you end up with at the end of each chapter are C (Average) grade. Each one screams for a good designer to make them better. So when you finish each exercise, take the style sheet and turn a lackluster presentation into a Grade 1 design. Meyers invites you to play with the finished product at the end of each chapter, please do that---you earned it.

So, I would also say that if you are going to get Meyers' books, open up your wallet a little wider and get Robin Williams' book The Non-Designer's Design Book. I think of her as Meyer's big sister and the two go together like XHTML and CSS (or peaches and cream for you more lyrical folk). Robin Williams is an expert on teaching good design for layout and text (and images as well). Her book is ostensibly for text, but you will have all of the best design lessons you need to style up a remarkably svelte webpage if you do what Williams says with Meyers.

On CSS is a great addition to your understanding (as I am sure the second one is)--As Long As You Put In The Work And Go The Extra Mile.

P.S. Both the Williams and Castro books I recommended are under $20 each and will turn into reference books to keep and go back to often.
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Richard Pinneau
5.0 out of 5 stars You may have mastered HTML, but HERE's CSS empowerment !
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2003
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This is a gorgeous, full-color, masterfully laid-out piece of work by an author with cutting-edge understanding of Cascading Style Sheets and willingness to share his fine creative judgement. Yet it may take you a while to convince yourself (as it did me myself) that you need one more Eric Meyer CSS title. The glowing reviews finally broke through my resistance, and my facility with CSS has had several breakthroughs as a result.
Like many of you, I already have Eric's two premier titles for guiding web transitions from the difficult world of patched-together HTML solutions to the powerful, systematic, maintenance-friendly potentials of CSS. Here's my experience so you can see if it matches yours.
Through insightful and persuasive volumes such as Owen Briggs 'C S S: Separating Content from Presentation' (see reviews at ISBN 1904151043) I finally got that *aha* experience about CSS: These new standards are more than just style sheets, design aids, and download-enhancers; more even than the sum of these: once HTML 4 standards are better followed by browsers, CSS will open up all web-design work in remarkable ways. *HOWEVER*: design life in the meanwhile is extremely frustrating while browsers take their sweet time repairing past imbedded sins. As much as I wanted to break free from old HTML ways, the inconsistencies and vagaries of how browsers render CSS so discouraged me from solving design issues with CSS, that I considered taking a two year sabbatical from design until technology caught up. I thought I was just 'losing it' until I found Eric's own statement right on my desk in 'C S S: The Definitive Guide': "You may notice that, unlike other chapters, almost none of the figures in (the chapter on Positioning objects) was generated with a web browser. This is... a statement about the reliability and consistency of positioning implementations..."
What's the average designer to do when even Jeffrey Zeldman admits (in his preface here) that his fallback position in the current world of CSS is *emailing Eric Meyer*? In this volume we see. Eric walks you through common types of design and redesign issues are solvable through CSS (and provides frequent color screen shots displaying exactly what happens after small changes in code). It is refreshing that so much care is taken with both the design and writing of this book. Even the *hints* in margins surprise me - after I thought I had read practically every CSS hint published to date. Eric puts them together in an engaging manner.
No matter how skilled you are with design or with HTML, unless your mastery of CSS specifically is on a par with Eric's (all 3 or 4 of you such people), I think that after reading twenty pages of "Eric on CSS" you are likely to feel you wasted valuable time each week since this book's release! Thanks, Eric. Thanks, New Riders for the time and expense to make such a quality volume. Fine work on the companion web site and downloadable code as well!
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Riccardo Audano
4.0 out of 5 stars Look over a Master's shoulder
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2006
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Awesome learn by example book IF you already have a little background in CSS, and even then if your knowledge is elementary you might be lost on some of the finer points. If it had a little more theory and explanations it would be a killer book, but I guess Eric Meyer didn't have patience enough for that. He is anyway a Master in CSS styling, no doubts about that, and the right author too look at for learning and inspiration. The book is structured around several projects that you see in the various developing stages from beginning to end in reasonably small steps. The explanations of what's going on are like what you would expect from a guru/designer/artist that is, far from complete and basic. Again is like you had the chance to peek over Eric's shoulder while he works, but he won't be bothered to lose too much of his time after you. But don't get me wrong, this book is a must have for anyone interested in CSS, even if I would not buy it now (it starts being a bit dated) but would wait for his next book that should come out this autumn.
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Strawman
5.0 out of 5 stars Eric Meyer on Css
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2023
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Bught this a long time ago. No use for it anymore. It was helpful when I used it.
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catnao
2.0 out of 5 stars Masterubg tge kabgyage of Web Design
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011
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The book is basically a cookbook on converting an existing table based web-site to a combo table/CSS format. After going through the first few chapter I realized a person would not learn much from this book. There is much better books on CSS on the market. Avoid this one.
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Ben
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product
Reviewed in Canada on April 23, 2012
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Product arrived in good time and in excellent condition. It was sold as used but it could easy qualify for new. I recommend the book and the seller. Thanks and keep up the good work.

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Mic
4.0 out of 5 stars Bien mais basique
Reviewed in France on December 21, 2009
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Le livre est détaillé et donne les bonnes pratiques pour la création de feuilles de style CSS.

On y trouve là une bonne introduction aux principes de base, cascades, intérêts et motivations, le tout insistant sur la "propreté" du code ce qui est essentiel et bien fait. Les sujets abordés à proprement parler restent assez basiques par rapport à toutes les nouvelles fonctionnalités qu'offrent les nouvelles versions de CSS.

En tous les cas, c'est une bonne introduction pour pouvoir aborder ensuite d'autres ressources sur internet traitant justement des nouvelles fonctionnalités, mais qui ne parlent pas toujours des bonnes pratiques et des principes sous-jacents.
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atrazin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, Great, Great !!!!
Reviewed in Germany on March 22, 2003
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First of all I want to say that it is one of the most beautiful books I have ever seen. The layout is just great.
AND the content is great as well. In short it is "CSS by examples". The examples are beautiful websites and the author tells us step by step how he built them.
If you already know a little bit of CSS and you need some ideas how to use it more efficiently, then this is the book you want.
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Michael
4.0 out of 5 stars Be carefull! This book may not be for you.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2004
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Eric Meyer, when it comes to CSS this man knows it all. There is no denying he is the authoritive figure in this field, he explains things well and will entertain you throughout. If you know little about CSS and what can be achieved with it, buy this book. You will learn how to approach CSS driven design and the possibilities with its use. It won’t teach you the basics (for that ‘Cascading Style Sheets the Definitive Guide’ would be my choice) and if you have been working with CSS for a year or more, you will learn little new within its pages.
There were a handful of new and interesting ideas that I picked out but not much else. This is an enjoyable book and certainly an insight into how one of the leading brains in the field works.
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Jan Bosela
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2012
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This is very good tutorial based book for beginners, collection of all fundamental rules of CSS 1/2. still usable.
I am very satisfied and feeling prepared for CSS3.
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