Professional Css Cascading Style Sheets For Web Dev.

Professional CSS gives developers a peek into the process of the best CSS designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world web sites that made them famous. Core chapters focus on one designer and a web site they worked on. Each chapter documents designers’ processes from start to finish and how they overcame each site’s unique set of challenges. In each chapter are easily digestible demonstrations of CSS tips and techniques used for the site for advanced CSS developers. At the end of each chapter, designers provide greater insight into their process by talking about what they would have done differently. By creating a more hands-on, exploratory look into designing large-scale, professional-level standards-based CSS web sites, Professional CSS is aimed at being the book readers naturally gravitate towards after going through Beginning CSS.

Table of contents :
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
· The Planning and Development of Your Site
· Best Practices for XHTML and CSS
· Blogger: Rollovers and Design Improvements
· The PGA Championship
· The University of Florida
· ESPN.com: Powerful Layout Changes
· FastCompany.com: Building a Flexible Three-Column Layout
· Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching
· Bringing It All Together
Appendix A: HTML 4.01 Elements
Appendix B: Rules for HTML-to-XHTML Conversion
Appendix C: CSS 2.1 Properties
Appendix D: Troubleshooting CSS Guide
Index

Market Description :
· Intermediate to Experienced HTML users with basic understanding of CSS. Any professional web developer who need to learn how to effectively develop CSS-enabled designs at a professional level.

· Professional designers and web developers learning CSS (without any knowledge of traditional, 90s era design practices) who want to understand the best practices for utilizing the technology to create professional-level web sites.


About Author :
Christopher Schmitt is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm. He authored CSS Cookbook and Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders) and has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, Web Reference, and speaks at conferences like The Other Dreamweaver Conference.

Mark R. Trammell, Jr.directs the Web presence at University of Florida

Ethan Marcotte is a leading industry voice on web design, a steering committee member of the Web Standards Project, a curator of sidesh0w.com where thousands read his writings on the subject each month formerly a Senior UI Developer at Context Integration.

Todd Dominey founded Dominey Design (domineydesign.com), an interactive web development and design studio which has produced original work for Budweiser, The Washington Post, Google, Winterfresh Gum, and others. He is also a Senior Interactive Designer at Turner Sports Interactive; designing and developing web destinations for major PGA tournaments including the PGA Championship and The Ryder Cup.

Dunstan Orchard is a noted developer works on Apple's online store, Yahoo!'s flagship home page, and a CSS-enabled site for Coca Cola. He is a member of The Web Standards Project where he heads up the Mobile Task Force. He is also a developer on WordPress, an extremely popular open-source blogging platform and blogs at http://1976design.com/blog/.