XHTML & CSS:
Course Resources
This is the resources page for studies in HTML, XHTML, HTML5, and CSS. Specifically, here's what we have (let me know if you find new items or see items here that have gone away):
Understandably, this list of resources might be overwhelming. Here are our suggestions on the top published picks:
- Elizabeth Castro. Various titles over various editions: HTML, XHTML, and CSS, HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. Visual QuickStart Guide. Peachpit Press. Eases you into XHTML from the original HTML perspective but may not work well as a quick-reference point and is not extensive in its coverage. The same is true for its CSS content: good introduction, but inadequate as a reference.
- Eric A. Meyer. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly, 2000. ISBN: 1-56592-622-6. This is the book I turn first to, although it may be a bit steep for first-time exposure to CSS. Preceded by the Castro book, this book will become usable.
- Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly, latest edition. A much more technical, detailed coverage of XHTML and HTML — not for the beginner.
- Learn About Domains & HTML. Good understandable information provided by maracaria.com (UK). Link suggested by Girl Scout Troop #1306 of California.
Instead of buying up a lot of books, you may want to try finding what you need to create web pages out on the web itself:
XHTML rules are easy to cover and really shouldn't require a full book to discuss and illustrate. Save your dollars for something else!
- Elizabeth Castro. HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. 5th ed. Visual QuickStart Guide. Peachpit Press, 1999. ISBN: 0321130073. Eases you into XHTML from the original HTML perspective but may not work well as a quick-reference point and is not extensive in its coverage.
- Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly, 2000. ISBN: 0-596-00026-X. If you must by a book, this might be the best one even though its publication date is 2000.
- XHTML tutorial. From W3Schools!
CSS, on the other hand, is complex enough to warrant a book purchase, even though are certainly some good online resources as listed here:
- Eric A. Meyer. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly, 2000. ISBN: 1-56592-622-6. This is the book I turn first to, although it may be a bit steep for first-time exposure to CSS. However, his Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design (New Riders Press ISBN 073571245X) is a good process approach; and his CSS Hands-On Training (Peachpit ISBN 0321293916) is likely to be good too, when it comes out.
- CSS Work. Eric Meyer's website for CSS. (Also see his css/edge area, which is resolutely focused on cutting-edge CSS.)
- Damon Dean. Cascading Style Sheets for Dummies. Hungry Minds/Wiley, 2001. ISBN: 0-7645-0871-7. Probably a good starting point if you can stand the obnoxious humor (which is also a time-waster).
- Elizabeth Castro. HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. 5th ed. Visual QuickStart Guide. Peachpit Press, 1999. ISBN: 0321130073. Eases you into CSS and XHTML from the original HTML perspective but does not cover a lot of CSS and does not work well (for me at least) as a quick-reference point.
- Eric A. Meyer. Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design. New Riders. ISBN:073571245X. This is a good one to start with.
- Dan Shafer. HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS. Sitepoint, 2003. ISBN: 0-9579218-2-9. Probably the definitive guide for using CSS as opposed to tables to position objects on web pages.
- CSS Tutorials. From W3Schools, probably the best most extensive set of tutorials on CSS.
- Cascading Style Sheets Web Design Group. Pretty good coverage also.
- CSS2 tutorial. From RichInStyle.com, not clear where CSS2 kicks in amongst this extensive set of tutorials.
- Cascading Style Sheets. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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