This book assumes you know what CSS is and can write it to some extent already. If you work in a large team, on a site with plenty of traffic (over 10,000 unique visitors a day), or loads of pages, this book was written for you. If you don’t work on high traffic websites, this book still has plenty to teach you, especially if you’re working in a team of any size. If you don’t work on a team, either, but see yourself working with CSS in the future, you can still benefit by understanding how it all works in a well formed-professional environment.
It’s extremely clear to me that the authors of this book, Antony Kennedy and Inayaili de Leon, are highly experienced and know what they are talking about. They are professionals at the top of the game. Further, being published by Apress indicates that this is a quality technical book.
Antony has worked for the BBC, BSkyB, Tesco, Disney, and Channel4 (among others). Employed as a web developer to CTO to Head of Front End Development, Antony has worked at all levels. This gives him real insight into how anyone working with CSS can help the team work as a well-oiled machine. You can find him on twitter @booshtukka.
Inayaili currently works for Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, takes on freelance work, speaks at a number of events and also writes for the likes of 24 ways and Smashing Magazine. She also writes on her own blog, Web Designers Notebook (which is part of the Smashing Network), on and around the areas of web design. Find her on twitter @yaili.
Assuming you’re interested in finding out more about Antony and Inayaili while the giveaway is running, I’ll be interviewing them both and updating this posts with the links.
Just as with the last book giveaway, here’s the table of contents I pinched from Amazon…
- The Value of Process
- CSS Style Guide
- Fundamentals
- Frameworks and Integration
- Brand Implementation
- CSS and Accessibility
- Devices
- Performance
- Dynamic CSS
- Testing and Debugging
- Creating your CSS
- Appendix 1: CSS Standards Guide
- Appendix 2: Accessibility Guidelines
- Appendix 3: Browser Support Guidelines
- Appendix 4: Development Process
If you’re not already convinced that you need this book, check out the Amazon page.
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The thing I like about CSS the most is the ability to create snazzy-looking print-style designs without needing to use Photoshop or another tool to fake images, gradients, corners, shadows, etc. The old days of table-based CSS-free web design were a killer!
Tansitions, animations, round corners, gradients, text and box shadows and so on! With CSS3 is possible to create in no time effects that a couple of years ago would have required lot of images, tricks or javascript and much more time!
My favorite part of CSS is being able to tell designers, “Nope. I don’t need an image for that. I am doing it with CSS.”
My favorite feature of CSS is the ability to make a change in one place that impacts many screens
Its easy to learn but hard to master.
My favorite part? Being able to make amazingly stylish yet functional sites with minimal code and minimal loadtime.
The best thing about CSS? Rhythmical basslines…
The part I enjoyed the most is when I get the results I am expecting.
It’s awesome how you can still create beautiful works of art through code. CSS proves that design and function go hand in hand!
The best thing about CSS is the endless possibilities it has to offer & its continual progression
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