The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

The Modern Web Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Peter Gasston (No Starch Press – Kindle, paperback) After a quick first glance, you might look right past this book. You might assume its title, “The Modern Web,” simply introduces some kind of heavily footnoted, academic study of the Internet. Not so, Web breath. … Continue reading The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

Specificity, Selectors, and the Cascade: Applying CSS3 to Documents – #bookreview

Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade: Applying CSS3 to Documents Eric A. Meyer (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) If you know some basic CSS but wonder how the “cascade” part of Cascading Style Sheets works, here is a useful guide. Actually, this is a 73-page, two-chapter excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of Eric A. Meyer’s CSS: … Continue reading Specificity, Selectors, and the Cascade: Applying CSS3 to Documents – #bookreview

Learning Web Design, 4th Edition – Beginner’s guide updated for HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript – #bookreview

Learning Web Design, 4th Edition Jennifer Niederst Robbins (O’Reilly, paperback) Eager to learn web design, but not sure where to start and what you will need? Need a steady, guiding hand as you try to figure out how build your first web pages? This handsome new edition of Learning Web Design can be your how-to, go-to handbook for a long time, … Continue reading Learning Web Design, 4th Edition – Beginner’s guide updated for HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript – #bookreview

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd Edition – Dynamic websites #programming #bookreview

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd Edition Robin Nixon (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Robin Nixon recently has updated and expanded his popular 2009 “step-by-step guide to creating dynamic websites.” The new edition has an added section that focuses on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), so the book “now covers all four of the most popular … Continue reading Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd Edition – Dynamic websites #programming #bookreview

Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual – 1000+ pages of good website how-to information

Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual By David Sawyer McFarland (O’Reilly,  paperback, Kindle) Dreamweaver website development and management software has been around more than 14 years. This makes it almost ancient by software standards. Yet, with each new release, it keeps steadily evolving, improving and adding more features and capabilities. And it is well-supported and stable. So Dreamweaver remains one … Continue reading Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual – 1000+ pages of good website how-to information

The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights – #bookreview #in #webdesign

The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights, 4th Edition Rachel Andrew (SitePoint, paperback, list price $39.95; Kindle edition, list price $29.95) “The basic purpose of CSS [Cascading Style Sheets],” Rachel Andrew notes, “is to allow the [web] designer to define style declarations — formatting details such as fonts, element sizes, and colors — … Continue reading The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights – #bookreview #in #webdesign