Inspired by the enormously popular CSS Zen Garden Web site, this beautiful full-color guide reveals what's possible with CSS design.

• Scads of full-color spreads of Zen Garden sites demonstrate the creative potential afforded by CSS-based Web design.
• Authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag are leading lights in the world of Web design—she with more than 30 books under her belt, and he as the creator of the legendary CSS Zen Garden project.
• Book includes six major sections, each of which contains six unique Zen Garden designs, all of which can accessed via the Zen Garden Web site. (http://www.csszengarden.com)

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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. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). By the time you've finished perusing the volume, you'll have a new understanding of the graphically rich, fully accessible sites that CSS design facilitates. In sections on design, layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes, Dave and Molly take you through every phase of the design process--from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects (no scripting required).

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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. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). By the time you've finished perusing the volume, you'll have a new understanding of the graphically rich, fully accessible sites that CSS design facilitates. In sections on design, layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes, Dave and Molly take you through every phase of the design process--from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects (no scripting required).

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DAS CSS-Vorzeigeprojekt
Mit seiner Website www.csszengarden.com schuf der Webdesigner Dave Shea im Mai 2003 das CSS-Vorzeigeprojekt schlechthin. Nach Web-Standards programmiert, hatte sich Dave Shea vorgenommen "The Beauty in CSS Design" weiter in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken. Heute gilt die Website als bestes Beispiel dafür, was Layout-technisch mit (X)HTML und CSS möglich ist. (c't Magazin, 10/2005)Visual Enlightenment for the Web
In dem vorliegenden Buch stellen Dave Shea und Molly E. Holzschlag, ihres Zeichens sehr erfahrene Buchautoren mit mehr als 30 Veröffentlichungen, die besten und kreativsten Designs vor. Auf 300 Seiten erhält man einen grandiosen und facettenreichen Einblick in die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten von CSS. Das Buch ist gegliedert in die Bereiche "Design", "Layout", "Imagery", "Typography", "Special Effects" und "Reconstruction". Zwei sehr herausragende Beiträge sind "Oceans Apart" von Ryan Sims aufgrund der typografischen Qualität und "What Lies Beneath" von Michael Pick, das visuell sehr ansprechend ist. Den richtigen Rahmen für die 36 Beiträge stellt ein wunderschönes Gestaltungsraster. Insgesamt ein Muss für jeden Webdesigner. MX-Magazin, 2005

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