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CSS Anthology

15 November 2004

Rachel’s got a new book out aimed at anyone who uses CSS on a daily basis to just get stuff done. The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks answers a succession of those quick how do I …? questions that constantly crop up when working with CSS in a production environment.

The publishers, well respected web design and development resource site SitePoint say the following:

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks’ is ideal for experienced Web designers who would like to add sparkle to their existing designs, as well as newcomers who want to learn Web design the right way the first time.

The book is written so that it can be read cover to cover, or referred to like a cookbook with 101 different recipies for your Website. It’s written in an easy-to-follow, consistent format that’s well illustrated with plenty of screenshots and code examples, providing quick visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style texts, then the illustrations and examples throughout this book will suit you.

If you’re already familiar with CSS but you’d like to see some examples of great CSS design that really work in practice, this book will be a valuable addition to your desk.

If you don’t have experience with CSS you can try out the examples provided in the book and the downloadable code archive for yourself and add effects to your Website in no time.

I understand the book will be available on Amazon any day now, and is already available to buy direct from SitePoint. I hear they ship really fast.

Update: I should add that the book was technical edited by our very own Simon Willison. (Get well soon, Simon!)

- Drew McLellan

Comments

  1. § Ottawa: Hmm. Sounds interesting. I think I will get it. I’ll wait till it comes out on amazon first though ;)
  2. § Dustin Diaz: I just received my copy (with a free poster) in the mail yesterday.

    Pretty good :)
  3. § Nikole Jolie: Wow! Very Impressive! :)
  4. § kenneth communications: i want macro media flash codes to implement flash animations in my embedded flash code on this link.

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.