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CSS Books

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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
by Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman
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CSS: The Missing Manual
by David Sawyer McFarland
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Learning Web Design
by Jennifer Robbins
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PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual
by Brett McLaughlin
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CSS Pocket Reference
by Eric A. Meyer
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Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Jonathan Stark
Second Edition
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Web Development Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Aaron Godin, Brian P. Hogan, Chris Johnson, Chris Warren, Mike Weber
Print: $35.00

Pragmatic Guide to Sass (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Hampton Catlin, Michael Lintorn Catlin
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Head First Mobile Web
by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby
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PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual
by Brett McLaughlin
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Mobile HTML5
by Maximiliano Firtman, Estelle Weyl
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HTML5 Graphics with SVG & CSS3
by Kurt Cagle
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Online Courses

Web Programming Certificate Series is comprised of six courses that span web programming skills from basic to complex. Students learn the core technical skills necessary for a complete understanding of web administration and development. Enroll now!

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CSS News & Commentary

Four short links: 2 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 2, 2012

Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap -- cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and "puffiness". CMU iPad Course -- iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming. Inspiring Matter -- the conference aims to bring together designers, scientists, artists and humanities people working with materials research and innovation to talk about how they...

Responsive design works for websites, why not for digital comic books?

January 23, 2012

In a keynote address, Open Road Media's Pablo Defendini explored what HTML and CSS can offer to digital comic book design.

Four short links: 4 January 2012

By Nat Torkington
January 4, 2012

Compiling Android from Source (Jethro Carr) -- not as easy as you might think. The documentation is minimal, and each device has its own binary blobs of not-open-source crap necessary to make them work. Open source is supposed to let users continue to do good things with the device, even if the vendor disapproves (cf Stallman's Printer). Jethro's experience...

Four short links: 2 January 2012

By Nat Torkington
January 2, 2012

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success (The Atlantic) -- Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted. This is a magnificent article, you should read it. (via Juha Saarinen) impress.js (github) -- MIT-licensed Prezi-like presentation tool, built using CSS3 3d transforms. I've never been happy with the Prezi because I fear data lock-in. This...

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CSS Experts

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

Jason Grigsby is founder and President of Mobile Portland, a non profit dedicated to promotion and education of the mobile community in Portland, Oregon. Jason is a sought after speaker and consultant on mobile technology.

Bill Lubanovic started developing software with UNIX in the 70s, GUIs in the 80s, and the Web in the 90s. He now does web visualization work for a wind energy company.