The Zen of CSS Design(c) Visual Enlightenment for the Web
The Zen of CSS Design(c) Visual Enlightenment for the Web
ISBN: N/A
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Year: 2005
Pages: 117
Pages: 117
- The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
- Table of Contents
- 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
- Prt--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
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The Zen of CSS Design(c) Visual Enlightenment for the Web
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 117
Pages: 117