Please check individual instructor's website regarding the textbooks for the courses you plan to take. The books listed here are found by some students to be useful, please use only as references.
| Book Title | Description | Retail Price/Link |
|---|---|---|
Creating Website the Missing Manual |
Whether you want to build a personal web site, an e-commerce site, a blog, or a web site for a specific occasion or promotion, this book gives you detailed instructions and clear-headed advice for. It has has a comprehensive listing of all the THML tags. |
$19.79 Amaozn.com |
CSS the Missing Manual |
Cascading Style Sheets are now a reliable method for handling all kinds of Web page presentations -- from fonts and colors to page layout. But due to CSS's complexity most designers treat it as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites without tapping into the real power of CSS. CSS: The Missing Manual clearly explains this powerful design tool and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites, or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade. | $23.99 Amazon.com |
HTML5:Up and Running |
If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. The latest version of this markup language is going to significantly change the way you develop web applications, and this book provides your first real look at HTML5's new elements and attributes. | $19.79 Amazon.com |
Stylin'CSS |
From the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS (no JavaScript required). It also shows how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. | $29.69 Amazon.com |
CSS Mastery |
This book will be aimed towards intermediate web designers/developers, although the examples should be simple enough for novice designers/developers with a basic understanding of CSS to grasp. Readers will probably have read beginner/intermediate instructional books such as Web Standards Solutions and will be looking for more practical and in-depth information. This book is likely to have a broad appeal, attracting intermediate developers wanting to improve their skills as well as advanced developers wanting a useful reference. | $24.50 Amazon.com |
Advantages of using CSS for layout instead of tables:
Accessibility
Screen readers and braille devices have fewer problems with CSS designs because they follow a logical structure. The same is true for search engine Web crawlers, which classify them accurately and so enable finding them easily in appropriate searches.
Bandwidth Saving
CSS design produces web pages with fewer HTML tags , this normally means that the pages become smaller to download.
Maintainability
Because the CSS layout information is external, changes can be made quickly and globally by default.
