Table of Contents

•	Table of Contents
•	Index

The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
By Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag
Publisher	: Peachpit Press
Pub Date	: February 17, 2005
ISBN	: 0-321-30347-4
Pages	: 304

		Copyright
		Acknowledgments
			Dave Shea Thanks:
			Molly E. Holzschlag Thanks:
			From Both Dave and Molly
			Special Thanks
		About the Authors
			Dave Shea
			Molly E. Holzschlag
		Introduction
			What Is This Book About?
			Who Should Buy This Book?
			Conventions Used
			How Should I Use This Book?
		Chapter 1.  View Source
			Genesis
			The Beginning of a Change
			Why these Standards?
			Planting the Seed
			Default DesignTranquille
			Implications
			Laying the Foundation
			Semantic Markup
			Building Great Markup
			The Test of Time
			Zen Garden Source HTML
			Visual Structure
			Designing For Flexibility
			Lessons Taught
			Benefits of Web Standards
			Lessons Learned
			Accessibility Checking
			Text Scalability
			XHTML and Mime Types
			Foreign Languages
			Copyright and Theft
			Build it Bigger, Build it Better!
		Chapter 2.  Design
			Atlantis: Minimal design, unity, and symbolism
			Zunflower: Playing with light and shadow, shape and space
			Springtime: Using color to evoke emotion
			Viridity: Balancing pattern, texture, and contrast
			Ballade: Using the imagination to create visual flow and guide the eye
			Night Drive: Converting static site mock-ups to code, and solving problems when doing so
		Chapter 3.  Layout
			Backyard: Understanding absolute positioning and floats
			Entomology: Centered layouts in contemporary Web design
			White Lily: Principles and process for designing effective layouts
			Prêt-à-porter: Exploring horizontal lines in a vertical world
			CS(S) Monk: Meaningful positioning and understanding the grid
			Not So Minimal: Dealing with common overflow problems
		Chapter 4.  Imagery
			Japanese Garden: Understanding image formats and optimization
			Revolution!: Applying images with CSS
			Deco: Minimal imagery, maximum impact
			No Frontiers!: Breaking out of the box using rounded imagery
			Coastal Breeze: Creating imagery for your work and finding additional source material
			What Lies Beneath: Three-dimensional environments in two-dimensional form
		Chapter 5.  Typography
			Oceans Apart: Simplicity in type leads to lasting, effective design
			Si6: The trouble with fonts, and how to cope with that trouble
			Release One: Coming to terms with the insanity that is font sizing
			Dead or Alive: Grace and gravity in typographic design
			Blood Lust: Exploring type formatting options
			Golden Mean: Method and creativity combined to create typographic balance
		Chapter 6.  Special Effects
			This is Cereal: The cascade and layering effects
			Gemination: Two designs but one style sheet
			Bonsai Sky: Working around browser limitations with creative imagery and code
			Tulipe: CSS drop-down menus with an alternative for Internet Explorer
			Door to my Garden: Simple CSS resulting in impressive, sophisticated visual effects
			Elastic Lawn: Visual problem solving sometimes goes further than skin-deep
		Chapter 7.  Reconstruction
			Hedges: Background images blend seamlessly with a variable foreground
			Radio Zen: A radio dial made possible with a fixed background image
			South of the Border: Corralling content with margins and positioning
			Corporate ZenWorks: From competition to concord
			Open Window: One design, three layouts
			Mnemonic: Designer tricks for liquid layouts and enhanced effects
		Closing Thoughts
			CSS Crib Sheet
			Understand the Problem
			Other Resources
			CSS Design Web Sites
			Publications
			Books
			Submit Your Own!
		Index