Wilson, T.D. (2009). Review of: McFarland, David Sawyer. CSS: the missing manual. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc. 2009 Information Research, 14(4), review no. R356 [Available at: ]
Review: CSS: The Missing Manual
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McFarland's book is the most basic of the two, being intended for the newcomer to CSS, as the subtitle 'The missing manual' indicates. The books has five parts: CSS Basics, Applied CSS, CSS Page Layout, Advanced CSS and Appendices - CSS Property reference; CSS in Dreamweaver 8 (McFarland wrote the 'missing manual' on Dreamweaver), and CSS resources (i.e., Web links). If you haven't used CSS previously, then 'CSS Basics', will do just that: give you a sound introduction to what CSS can do and how you integrate it with HTML (or, preferably, XHTML).
First of all, thanks for the review, Jared. I'll be checking yourissues against bugs we've logged internally.> I read the earlier post where Jared mentioned that the > accessibility reports that were generated seemed overly > complicated and I have concerns that this in itself could be > counter productive, as developers who are new to > accessibility could very easily just "turn off accessibility > dialogue" if it all got too much for them. And its feasible > that many will. I thought I may be able to discuss this but, no dice.This is a complicated topic, and one that we're interested in yourfeedback on. I agree that as a rule, manual checks can to beoverwhelming in any web accessibility evaluation tool, in Dreamweaver ornot. If you are familiar with the manual checks that need to be done andjust want to use the checker as a quick test to make sure that youaren't missing anything that the tools can find, you can disable allmanual checks which tends to reduce the volume considerably. > couple of questions for the Macromedia team. You seemed to be > able to put content into Contribute (from MS Word et al) and > bounce it into you webpage template and easily update your > website. Fine. But is it structured content? Will Contribute > apply any semantic structure to unformatted content?Contribute will not add semantics when there is none already, but if youspecify headings, links, table headings, tables, lists, etc., Contributewill create the appropriate HTML elements.AWKAndrew KirkpatrickPrincipal Accessibility Engineer, Macromedia = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = 2ff7e9595c
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