Workshop Survival Kit

Professional CSS and XHTML Techniques

Created by Eric Meyer, the world-renowned CSS expert

Photo of Eric Meyer This new and updated Survival Kit was put together by Eric Meyer for his London, June 2006 workshop and is chock full of code, links and articles to help you create truely professional CSS and XHTML websites.

This is a unique oportunity to learn from the undisputed leader in CSS, XHTML and accessibility, Eric Meyer. If you have always wanted to build accessible websites using CSS and XHTML, this kit will help you do it. It covers the basics plus the more important tips and tricks that will help you build tight, well-coded sites in CSS and XHTML.

Highlights on the kit include: Column Layout Matrix examples, a collection of Eric's style sheets that will help you sketch out table structures, find alt-less images, find legacy font elements, and much more. For full rundown of what's on the kit see the panel below

Past Reviews

"CSS explained in easy, understandable terms" - Frank Villa-Abrille, Nokia

"No fluff, just good real-world developer info. Bravo!" - Christopher Kelly, State Farm Insurance

"It's one thing reading about CSS but another to learn from Eric" - Wit Chitrapongse, Accenture

"Eric is a treasure-trove of CSS know-how wrapped up in one tidy package" - Jeff Allen, University of Wisconsin

"Great real-world examples" - Ahren Gerber, elliance.com

"The Survival Kit is very useful" - Paula Davies, Legal & General

"Recommended to anyone, even those who are advanced in CSS" - Ed Cordero, Cordero Studios

"Both engaging and useful" - Chris Graver, Bank of America

What's on the Kit?

CSS Column Layout Charts

Layouts that use Footers
Layouts with no separators or backgrounds
Single separator; no backgrounds
"Full-height" column backgrounds

Style Sheets

Label block elements
Label class and ID
Show images that lack 'alt' attributes
Show links that lack 'title' attributes
Show elements that have 'style' attributes
Show table structure
Show div structure and depth
Make font elements really obvious

Techniques

Making rounded corners
Sprited Rollovers

Articles

Incorrect MIME Type for CSS Files
Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets
Help! My CSS Isn't Working!
Common Myths of CSS
On Specificity
Inheritance: Friend and Foe
Uncollapsing Margins
Containing Floats
Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps
Consistent List Indentation
Understanding Underlines
Sliding Doors of CSS
The Child Selector
Universal Selector
Fixing Incorrectly Sized List Item Markers
...and 22 more articles

Specifications

CSS 2.1
HTML 4.01
XHTML 1.0

More on the author

Eric Meyer

Eric (www.meyerweb.com) has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

He is the principal consultant for Complex Spiral Consulting and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe. A graduate of and former Webmaster for Case Western Reserve University and an alumnus of the same fraternity chapter to which Donald Knuth once belonged, Eric coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's CSS Test Suite and has recently been acting as List Chaperone of the highly active css-discuss mailing list.

Author of "Eric Meyer on CSS" (New Riders), "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" (O'Reilly & Associates), "CSS2.0 Programmer's Reference" (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), and the fairly well-known CSS Browser Compatibility Charts, Eric speaks at a variety of conferences on the subject of standards, CSS use, and Web design.

He is also the host of "Your Father's Oldsmobile," a weekly Big Band-era radio show heard on WRUW 91.1-FM in Cleveland. When not otherwise busy, Eric is usually bothering his wife Kat in some fashion.