Robin Nixon's CSS & CSS3 Crash Course

by Robin Nixon

From the author of the top-selling book "Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript", and the popular "HTML5 Crash Course", this CSS & CSS 3 course teaches you everything you need to know, including animations, transformations, shadows, font management and much, much more. Everything is clearly explained in written lectures packed with examples and figures.You will absolutely find this one of the easiest courses you have ever taken and, once you've completed it, you'll completely understand CSS and CSS 3, and be fully confident of how to use it to make impressive and dynamic web pages. Starting from the basics of CSS (which experienced uses can skim) the book covers everything you need to know about CSS and CSS3 in these 16 easy-to-follow to CSSThe CSS RulesCSS SelectorsThe CSS CascadeCSS Fonts & TypographyCSS Color & PositionThe CSS Box ModelIntroduction to CSS3CSS3 Attribute SelectorsCSS3 BackgroundsCSS3 BordersCSS3 Box Shadows, Overflow & ColumnsCSS3 Colors & OpacityCSS3 Text Effects & Web FontsCSS3 Transformations & TransitionsCSS3 3D TransformationsOnce you've read this book you will be fully up-to-date on the latest features provides by CSS3.

Genres: Technology, Reference, Nonfiction, Web

Kindle Edition

First published December 22, 2011

About the author

Robin has over 30 years experience of writing software, and developing websites and apps. He also has an extensive history of writing about computers and technology, with a portfolio of over 500 published magazine articles and almost 30 books, many of which have been translated into other languages. He is also a prolific Internet video course instructor.

As well as IT, his interests include motivational psychology (which he also writes about), artificial intelligence research, many types of music (both playing and listening to), playing and creating board games, and enjoying good food and drink .

Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife, Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer). Between them they also foster three disabled children.

Reviews

[xiaohai shao · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not enough

Seems this course only shows part of CSS and CSS 3 features. And apparently in the book there's assumption about the level of the reader.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid primer on CSS and some of the new CSS3 rules. I disagree on a few points in the early chapters, such as the acceptability of leaving off trailing semicolons on CSS rules; if you use any compression or minify of your CSS files, this will result in broken files. Otherwise, a solid recap of CSS basics, with a very light dusting of 2d and 3d transforms, font options, and a few other CSS3 features.

[Karl Geiger · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clear and straightforward introduction and survey of Cascading Style Sheets v3 tools and techniques. Programmers and designers who are stepping up from CSS2 must read this book.