Books by Estelle Weyl

If youre a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort, this book is for you. This revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications.CSS is a constantly evolving language for describing the presentation of web content on screen, printers, speech synthesizers, screen readers, and chat windows. It is used by all browsers on all screen sizes on all types of IoT devices, including phones, computers, video games, televisions, watches, kiosks, and auto consoles. Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques.This guide covers:Selectors, specificity, and the cascadeValues, units, fonts, and text propertiesPadding, borders, outlines, and marginsColors, backgrounds, and gradientsFloats and positioning tricksFlexible box layoutThe new Grid layout system2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animationFilters, blending, clipping, and maskingMedia and feature queries

HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World is your perfect introduction to the latest generation of web technologies. This easy-to-follow guide covers everything you need to know to get started today.

Add life and depth to your web applications and improve user experience through the discrete use of CSS transitions and animations. With this concise guide, youll learn how to make page elements move or change in appearance, whether you want to realistically bounce a ball, gradually expand a drop-down menu, or simply bring attention to an element when users hover over it.Short and deep, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Transitions and Animations in CSS, youll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once its released. Why wait? Learn how to make your web pages come alive today.Understand and learn how to implement Disneys 12 principles of cartoon animationLearn which CSS properties you can animate and use in transitionsApply CSSs four transition properties and nine animation properties to your CSS elementsUse CSS keyframe animations to granularly control an elements property valuesLearn details that will save you hours of debugging and megabytes of unnecessary JavaScript

Build kickass websites and applications for all mobile (and non-mobile) platforms by adding HTML5 and CSS3 to your web development toolkit. With this hands-on book, youll learn how to develop web apps that not only work on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone, but also perform well and provide good user experience.With lots of code and markup examples, youll learn best practices for using HTML5 features, including new web forms, SVG, Canvas, localStorage, and related APIs. Youll also get an in-depth look at CSS3, and discover how to design apps for large monitors and tiny screens alike.Learn HTML5s elements, syntax, and semanticsBuild forms that provide enhanced usability with less JavaScriptExplore HTML5 media APIs for graphics, video, and audioEnable your applications to work offline, using AppCache, localStorage, and other APIsLearn what you need to know about CSS3 selectors and syntaxDive into CSS3 features such as multiple backgrounds, gradients, border-images, transitions, transforms, and animationsMake your web applications usable, responsive, and accessible.Design for performance, user experience, and reliability on all platforms