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This is a different kind of CSS book. It takes the approach that there's a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. Handcrafted CSS gives frustrated Web designers the ammo they need to convince their clients and bosses to adopt innovative and effective CSS techniques that make their lives easier while improving the end user's experience.
Whether you’re a Web designer, project manager, or a graphic designer wanting to learn more about the fluidity that’s required when designing for the Web, you’ll discover the tools to create the most flexible, reliable, and bulletproof Web designs. And you’ll finally be able to persuade your clients to adopt innovative and effective techniques that make everyone’s life easier while improving the end user’s experience.
The entire book focuses on building a fictional site, the Tugboat Coffee Company. Each chapter builds a new layer into this site, with clear instruction of how each aspect progressively enhances the user experience, while not explicitly leaving other browsers in the dust. This textbook offers designers a transitional approach that teaches them when it's OK to push the envelope a bit, how best to do it, and when not to.
Subjects covered in this book include:
-building for unanticipated future use
-progressively enriching designs using CSS3 properties
-using RGBA color for transparency with an alpha channel
-modular float management
-crafting flexible frameworks
-fluid layouts using grid-based design principles
-craftsmanship details on typography, jQuery, and shifting backgrounds
