A Nixon Publishing Book Robin Nixon's CSS3 Crash Course
(Nixon Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-0956895622)

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From the author of the top-selling book Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, and the popular Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course, this new CSS & CSS 3 course teaches you everything you need to know about the CSS web layout language, all the way from the basics, up to advanced features such as animations, transformations, shadows, web font management and much, much more.
     Everything is clearly explained with plenty of examples and figures, and you will absolutely find this one of the easiest courses you have ever taken. Once you've completed it, you'll completely understand CSS and CSS3, and be fully confident of how to use it to make really impressive and dynamic web pages.
     Starting from the basics of CSS (which experienced users can skim) the book covers everything you need to know about CSS and CSS3 in 16 easy-to-follow lectures.

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  CONTENTS

  1. Introduction to CSS
  2. The CSS Rules
  3. CSS Selectors
  4. The CSS Cascade
  5. CSS Fonts & Typography
  6. CSS Color & Position
  7. The CSS Box Model
  8. Introduction to CSS3
  9. CSS3 Attribute Selectors
  10. CSS3 Backgrounds
  11. CSS3 Borders
  12. CSS3 Box Shadows, Overflow & Columns
  13. CSS3 Colors & Opacity
  14. CSS3 Text Effects & Web Fonts
  15. CSS3 Transformations & Transitions
  16. CSS3 3D Transformations

Robin Nixon's CSS & CSS3 Crash Course is for absolutely anyone with any amount of previous experience, because it teaches both CSS and CSS3. If you already know some CSS you can use the first few chapters as a refresher, or skim over them. If not they offer a simple, straight-forward and easy-to-follow introduction. The remaining chapters detail in depth what CSS3 has to offer and exactly how you can make the best use of its new features to make the most compelling and dynamic websites.

Robin Nixon is a technical author and web developer who has built numerous websites using HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and JavaScript. He has written over 500 articles and several books on computing. He is the author of Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course, HTML5 for iOS and Android and The Web Developers Cookbook. You may also be interested in his book on general web development: Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript.