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CSS3 for web designers is the second book from A Book Apart, a new publishing company specializing in writing brief books on various web topics. All those books are about 100 pages long, laser focused, covering only essential topics. This book, written by CSS expert Dan Cederholm will teach you the essential topics of CSS3 that can already be used today. Covered topics include a presentation of CSS3 and the core properties already implemented by the majority of web browsers (border-radius, text-shadow, opacity, RGBA, …), transitions, hover-effects crafting based on the development of a mini-website, transforms (rotate, skew and translate), multiple backgrounds (including techniques such as parallax scrolling), forms enrichment (kickass buttons in pure CSS, pulsating glow effects on field inputs, CSS gradients and keyframe animations) and finally links to some of the best CSS3 resources on the web are provided. |
Pros
- Very brief book, making effective use of our time
- Relevant decision to cover only a portion of CSS3, but in depth because it’s widely implemented by web browsers and thus usable today, instead of covering more topics that might even not be ratified by the W3C
- Full color book
Cons
- Quality of the book itself (cover paper) is pretty poor. The thinness of the paper makes it a book that gets easily damaged
- Currently available only from A Book Apart. Took me 3 weeks to get it from NYC to Belgium
Conclusion
Very interesting introduction to CSS3. Gives you what’s needed to know to improve the experience of your websites or web applications starting from today.
