Beginning CSS3

David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8. As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish. What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC television and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy. When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.

• * Introducing CSS - the Language of Web Design * Using Basic Selectors * Specifying Sizes, Colors, and Files * Styling Text * Embedding Web Fonts * Understanding Layout with the CSS Box Model * Floating Elements for Layout * Adding Backgrounds * Adding Borders and Drop Shadows * Styling Lists and Navigation Menus * Positioning Elements Precisely * Cross-Browser Layout Techniques * Using Advanced Selectors * Styling Tables * Generated Content * Creating a Print Style Sheet * Targeting Styles at Different Devices with Media Queries * Using CSS3 Multi-Column Layout * Creating Gradients Without images *2D Transformations and Transitions * Animating Elements with CSS Keyframes * What Next?