100 Best CSS Books of All Time

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HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites book cover1

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

Jon Duckett

5.0
Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or e-commerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and only written for those who want to become program
Web Design with Html, Css, JavaScript and Jquery Set book cover2

Web Design with Html, Css, JavaScript and Jquery Set

Jon Duckett

4.8
A two-book set for web designers and front-end developers This two-book set combines the titles HTML & CSS: Designing and Building Web Sites and JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Development. Together these two books form an ideal platform for anyone who wants to master HTML and CSS before stepping up to JavaScript and jQuery.

HTML & CSS covers structure, text, links, images, tables, forms
CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems book cover3

CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems

Lea Verou

4.8
Based on two popular talks from author Lea Verou--including "CSS3 Secrets: 10 things you may not know about CSS"--this practical guide provides intermediate to advanced CSS developers with more than 40 undocumented techniques and tips for using CSS3 to create better websites.

The talks that spawned this book have been top-rated by attendees in every conference they were presented, and praised in in
Css: The Missing Manual book cover4

Css: The Missing Manual

David Sawyer McFarland

4.8
CSS lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky--even for seasoned web developers. This fully updated edition provides the most modern and effective tips, tricks, and tutorial-based instruction on CSS available today. Learn how to use new tools such as Flexbox and Sass to build web pages that look great and run fast on any desktop or mobile device. Id
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics book cover5

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics

Jennifer Robbins

4.7
Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various t
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions book cover6

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions

Cameron Moll, Andy Budd, Simon Collison

4.6
This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS developmentall you need to work your way up to CSS professional. You'll learn how to:
- Plan, organize, and maintain your stylesheets more effectively
- Apply the secrets of liquid, elastic, and hybrid layouts
- Create flickr-style image maps, remote rollovers, and other advanced CSS features
- Lay out forms using pure CSS
- Recognize common br
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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

Eric Freeman

4.6
Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans, and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintai
CSS: The Definitive Guide book cover8

CSS: The Definitive Guide

Eric A. Meyer

4.6
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.

Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets
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Head First HTML and CSS

Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman

4.6
Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans, and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintain and expand your
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web book cover10

The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag

4.5
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites.
Responsive Web Design book cover11

Responsive Web Design

Ethan Marcotte

4.5
Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, CSS & HTML5) book cover12

Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, CSS & HTML5)

Robin Nixon

4.5

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. In this update to this popular hands-on guide, you’ll tackle dynamic web programming with the latest versions of today’s core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, and key jQuery libraries.

Web designers will learn how to use the

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS book cover13

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS

Dan Cederholm

4.5
No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key components
A Smarter Way to Learn HTML & CSS: Learn it faster. Remember it longer. book cover14

A Smarter Way to Learn HTML & CSS: Learn it faster. Remember it longer.

Mark Myers

4.4
The ultimate learn-by-doing approach. Short chapters are paired with free interactive online exercises to teach the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. Written for beginners, useful for experienced developers who want to sharpen their skills. Prepares the reader to code a website of medium complexity. The learner spends two to three times as long practicing as he does reading. Based on cognitive researc
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series) book cover15

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)

Dan Cederholm

4.4
Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS book cover16

Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS

Zoe Mickley Gillenwater Gillenwater

4.4
CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web's visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to
Designing with Web Standards book cover17

Designing with Web Standards

Jeffrey Zeldman

4.4
You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.

You can get off the merry-go-round.

It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and o
Css: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web book cover18

Css: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web

Eric A. Meyer and Estelle Weyl

4.4
If you're a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort, this book is for you. This revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications.

CSS is a constantly evolving language for describing the presentation of web content on screen, printers,
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CSS Pocket Reference

Eric A. Meyer

4.4
More proof that good things come in small--and sometimes even inexpensive--packages: the "CSS Pocket Reference" has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications, CSS2 and CSS2.1.An indispensable reference for web designers and developers, this slim little book covers the essential information needed to effectively implement CSS, with an introductio
Sass for Web Designers book cover20

Sass for Web Designers

Dan Cederholm

4.4
Let’s face it: CSS is hard. Our stylesheets are more complex than they used to be, and we’re bending the spec to do as much as it can. Can Sass help?

A reluctant convert to Sass, Dan Cederholm tells how he came around to the popular CSS pre-processor, and shares just what you need to take better control of your stylesheets (all the while working the way you always have). From getting started to adv
The Book of CSS3: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design book cover21

The Book of CSS3: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design

Peter Gasston

4.4
CSS3 is the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today, but the official documentation can be dry and hard to follow. Luckily, The Book of CSS3 distills the heady technical language of the CSS3 specification into plain English, so you can get started on your next project right away.

With real-world examples and a focus on results, The Book of CSS3 shows you how to transform
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS book cover22

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS

Ian Lloyd

4.3
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up.

However, unlike countless other "learn web design" books, this
Get Coding! Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Build a Website, App, and Game book cover23

Get Coding! Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Build a Website, App, and Game

Young Rewired State

4.3
Learn how to write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and build your own website, app, and game! An essential guide to computer programming for kids by kids.
Crack open this book and set off on several fun missions while simultaneously learning the basics of writing code. Want to make a website from scratch? Create an app? Build a game? All the tools are here, laid out in a user-friendly format that leads k
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The CSS Anthology

Rachel Andrew

4.3
A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for professionals and novices, that can be used both as a tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical reference book to common problems, solutions and effects. The 2nd edition is now full-color throughout and is completely updated and revised with the latest tips & tricks.

This book will show you how to:

Construct robust CSS layouts
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CSS3: The Missing Manual

David Sawyer McFarland

4.3
CSS3 lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky—even for seasoned web developers. This Missing Manual shows you how to take your HTML and CSS skills to the next level, with valuable tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions. You’ll quickly learn how to build web pages that look great and run fast on devices and screens of all sizes.

The important st
HTML, XHTML, and CSS (Visual Quickstart Guide) book cover26

HTML, XHTML, and CSS (Visual Quickstart Guide)

Elizabeth Castro

4.3
Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You
JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development book cover27

JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development

Jon Duckett

4.3
Learn JavaScript and jQuery a nicer way

This full-color book adopts a visual approach to teaching JavaScript & jQuery, showing you how to make web pages more interactive and interfaces more intuitive through the use of inspiring code examples, infographics, and photography. The content assumes no previous programming experience, other than knowing how to create a basic web page in HTML & CSS. You'l
Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design with Cascading Style Sheets book cover28

Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design with Cascading Style Sheets

Eric Meyer

4.3
Provides a variety of projects that teach you how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. This work also features a web site which includes all the files needed to complete the tutorials.
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Css3: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides)

Jason Cranford Teague

4.3
With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users CSS. Best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague takes readers
Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design / Bulletproof Essentials book cover30

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design / Bulletproof Essentials

Dan Cederholm, Ethan Marcotte

4.3
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The New CSS Layout

Rachel Andrew

4.3
CSS Grid Layout will transform the way the you design and develop for the web—and Rachel Andrew will change the way you grok the spec. Learn to use Grid Layout within a system that includes existing methods to perform the tasks they were designed for—and take advantage of this pivotal moment in the evolution of layout.
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design book cover32

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag, Aaron Gustafson, Mark Boulton

4.3
As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers offer new possibilities for creative design, the art of creating Web sites is also changing. Few Web designers are experiences programmers, and as a result, working with semantic markup and CSS can create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting
Responsible Responsive Design book cover33

Responsible Responsive Design

Scott Jehl

4.3
Responsive design has immeasurably improved multi-device, multi-browser visual layout—but it’s only the first step in building responsively. Learn how to turn a critical eye on your designs as you develop for new contexts (what does mobile really mean?) and screen features, speedy and lagging networks, and truly global audiences. Serve the right content across platforms, and tune for performance.
Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional book cover34

Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional

Simon Collison

4.3
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of the most important technologies on the web today. They give web developers the power to style their web sites so those sites are usable, compact, good looking, consistently displayable, and quick and efficient to change if so desired.

There are many books out there on CSS, but Beginning CSS Web Development is different--it doesn't waste time discussing theory
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Hardboiled Web Design

Andy Clarke

4.3
If you’ve been working on the web for a while, your bookshelves may already be buckling under the weight of books about HTML and CSS. Do you really need another one?

Hardboiled Web Design is different. It’s for people who want to understand why, when and how to use the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technologies in their everyday work. Not tomorrow or next week, but today. It won’t teach you the basics of w
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics book cover36

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics

Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Aaron Gustafson

4.3
Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web.

This thoroughly revised edition teaches you
HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardista's Approach book cover37

HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardista's Approach

Christopher Murphy

4.2
Why did we choose to write this book? We're both extremely busy--lecturing bachelor's degree and master's degree interactive design students, maintaining our own practice wo- ing for clients, and furthering our established careers as artists exhibiting internationally--so the idea of a "how to" book for would-be web designers wasn't arrived at lightly. That said, we felt the time was right for thi
Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web That Works for Everyone book cover38

Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web That Works for Everyone

Todd Parker, Scott Jehl, Maggie Costello Wachs, Patty Toland

4.2
Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and fu
CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web book cover39

CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

Eric A. Meyer

4.2
When you're working with CSS and need an answer now, this concise yet comprehensive quick reference provides the essential information you need. Revised and updated for CSS3, this fifth edition is ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers.

You'll find a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS and alphabetical summaries of CSS selectors and properties. You'll also discove
CSS Visual Dictionary book cover40

CSS Visual Dictionary

Greg Sidelnikov

4.2
Eloquent Javascript: A Modern Introduction to Programming book cover41

Eloquent Javascript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

Marijn Haverbeke

4.2
Completely revised and updated, this best-selling introduction to programming in JavaScript focuses on writing real applications.

Eloquent JavaScript dives into the JavaScript language to show programmers how to write elegant, effective JavaScript code. Like any good programming book, Eloquent JavaScript begins with fundamentals--variables, control structures, functions, and data structures--then m
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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web

Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos

4.2
We'll be partnering in this important new venture with DevelopMentor, a leading resource for developer information and education. DevelopMentor boasts a prestigious technical staff that includes some of the world's best-known developers and computer science professionals. DevelopMentor co-founder and best-selling Addison-Wesley author Don Box will serve as the DM Series Editor.
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Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide

Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson

4.2
What will you learn from this book?

This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser's document object model. You won't just be reading--you'll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And you'll write real code, lots of i
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design book cover44

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Jason Beaird

4.2
Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don't look nice?

If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained
HTML QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to HTML book cover45

HTML QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to HTML

ClydeBank Technology

4.2
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To Learning HTML - Learning HTML Has Never Been Easier!
*HTML Broken Down Into Easy To Follow Steps With Extensive Examples & Real Application!*
Do you want to learn HTML but don't know where to start? Are you overwhelmed by the 1,000 page long books that simply have TOO much information and are impossible to follow? Do you want to be up and running with HTML in just a
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 book cover46

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

Ben Frain

4.2
Learn responsive design using HTML5 and CSS3 to adapt websites to any browser or screen size.
The CSS: The Ultimate Reference book cover47

The CSS: The Ultimate Reference

Tommy Olsson, Paul O'Brien

4.2
A complete and thorough and up-to-date reference guide for CSS.

Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more - all presented in a beautiful, full co
Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement book cover48

Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement

Aaron Gustafson

4.2
Building an elegant, functional website requires more than just knowing how to code. In Adaptive Web Design, Second Edition, you’ll learn how to use progressive enhancement to build websites that won’t break, work anywhere, are accessible by anyone—on any device, and are designed to work well into the future.

Adaptive Web Design, Second Edition goes beyond the first edition to frame even more of th
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High Performance Web Sites

Steve Souders

4.2
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Pa
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Learn CSS in One Day and Learn It Well (Includes HTML5): CSS for Beginners with Hands-on Project. The only book you need to start coding in CSS immediately

Jamie Chan

4.2
Master HTML and CSS with Interactive Exercises and a unique Hands-On Project

Have you always wanted to learn HTML and CSS but are afraid it'll be too difficult for you? Or perhaps you are a blogger who wants to tweak your blog's design without having to spend money on an expensive theme?

This book is for you.

You no longer have to waste your time and money learning HTML and CSS from lengthy books, ex
Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles book cover51

Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles

Ethan Marcotte

4.2
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Learn to Code HTML & CSS: Develop & Style Websites

Shay Howe

4.2
Learn to Code HTML & CSS is an interactive beginner’s guide with one express goal: to teach you how to develop and style websites with HTML and CSS. Outlining the fundamentals, this book covers all of the common elements of front-end design and development, and lets you work through a real project with code exercises to support each lesson.
*Learn modern HTML and CSS and their syntax and terminolo
Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design book cover53

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

Dan Cederholm, Ethan Marcotte

4.2
There's a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That's the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today's browsers, and you'll be convinced that now's the time to start experimenting with it.

Whether
HTML5 and CSS3 (Visual QuickStart Guide) book cover54

HTML5 and CSS3 (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Elizabeth Castro, Bruce Hyslop

4.2
Need to learn HTML5 fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML5 and CSS essentials. You'll learn h
HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides) book cover55

HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides)

Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop

4.2
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Murach's HTML5 and CSS3: Training and Reference

Zak Ruvalcaba, Anne Boehm

4.2
Teaches you how to use HTML5 and CSS3 the way they were meant to work, with HTML5 to provide the page content and CSS3 to format the content and lay out the pages. This title also teaches you how to use the HTML5 and CSS3 features alongside the earlier standards.
More Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices That Matter) book cover57

More Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices That Matter)

Eric Meyer

4.2
HTML5 and CSS3 All-In-One for Dummies book cover58

HTML5 and CSS3 All-In-One for Dummies

Andy Harris

4.2
A new edition of a bestseller covers the latest advances in web development!

HTML5 and CSS3 are essential tools for creating dynamic websites and boast updates and enhanced features that can make your websites even more effective and unique. This friendly, all-in-one guide covers everything you need to know about each of these technologies and their latest versions so that you can use them together
Practical SVG book cover59

Practical SVG

Chris Coyier

4.2
Harness the power and possibilities of crisp, performance-efficient SVG with Chris Coyier. From software basics to build tools to optimization, you’ll learn techniques for a solid workflow. Go deeper: create icon systems, explore sizing and animation, and understand when and how to implement fallbacks. Get your images up to speed and look sharp!
Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb book cover60

Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb

Feroz Khan

4.2
The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative of Pakistani nationalism. Then, impelled first by the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan Wars, and more urgently by India's first nuclear weapon test in
The Art and Science of CSS: Create Inspirational, Standards-Based Web Designs book cover61

The Art and Science of CSS: Create Inspirational, Standards-Based Web Designs

Jonathan Snook, Steve Smith, Jina Bolton, Cameron Adams, David Johnson

4.2
CSS-based design doesn't need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks of your web site's design (such as headings, navigation, forms, and more) and bring them to life with fully standards-compliant CSS.

This full color book helps you to design web sites that not only work well across all browsers, ar
Introduction to Web Interaction Design: With HTML and CSS book cover62

Introduction to Web Interaction Design: With HTML and CSS

Michael Macaulay

4.2
This book introduces standard and new HTML5 elements and attributes and CSS3 properties commonly used in Web design as well as design guidelines for their effective use. Its approach of explaining every line of code in the examples it uses to show the usage of the HTML elements and CSS properties introduced makes it an invaluable Web design resource for beginners as well as intermediates looking t
Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with HTML5 and CSS3 (Voices That Matter) book cover63

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with HTML5 and CSS3 (Voices That Matter)

Dan Cederholm

4.2
No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a website may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Design, Third Edition, bestselling author and web designer Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key c
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Web Coding & Development All-In-One for Dummies

Paul McFedries

4.1
Speak the languages that power the web

With more high-paying web development jobs opening every day, people with coding and web/app building skills are having no problems finding employment. If you're a would-be developer looking to gain the know-how to build the interfaces, databases, and other features that run modern websites, web apps, and mobile apps, look no further. Web Coding & Development
Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide book cover65

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide

Charles Wyke-Smith

4.1
Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds of web pages, accelerating development times and centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. Stylin with CSS teaches you everything you need to know start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of markup of your content and styling text, through to creating mul
Computer Science Principles: The Foundational Concepts of Computer Science - For AP(R) Computer Science Principles book cover66

Computer Science Principles: The Foundational Concepts of Computer Science - For AP(R) Computer Science Principles

Mr. Kevin P Hare and Mr. Pindar Van Arman

4.1
Computer science is the world's fastest growing field of study, and this growth is showing no signs of slowing down. As a new field, computer science can seem intimidating, but it should not be scary to learn or difficult to understand. If you have ever turned on a phone or surfed the Internet then you have used a computer and should have a basic understanding of what happens when you click the mo
The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for Solving Tough CSS Mysteries book cover67

The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for Solving Tough CSS Mysteries

Denise R. Jacobs

4.1
One of the toughest challenges novice CSS developers face is when seemingly perfect code doesn't translate into a perfectly rendered browser page--and with all the different browsers available today, this happens all too often. The CSS Detective Guide aims to help, by teaching real world troubleshooting skills. You'll learn how to track clues, analyze the evidence, and get to the truth behind CSS
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS book cover68

Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Jonathan Snook

4.1
What is it?

SMACSS (pronounced “smacks”) is more style guide than rigid framework. There is no library within here for you to download or install. SMACSS is a way to examine your design process and as a way to fit those rigid frameworks into a flexible thought process. It is an attempt to document a consistent approach to site development when using CSS. And really, who isn’t building a site with C
Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout book cover69

Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout

Eric Meyer

4.1
PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR MODERN LAYOUT Smashing CSS takes you well beyond the basics, covering not only the finer points of layout and effects, but introduces you to the future with HTML5 and CSS3. Very few in the industry can show you the ins and outs of CSS like Eric Meyer and inside Smashing CSS Eric provides techniques that are thorough, utterly useful, and universally applicable in the rea
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 - Second Edition book cover70

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 - Second Edition

Ben Frain

4.1
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