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divpCSS3 is the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today, but the official documentation can be dry and hard to follow. Luckily, iThe Book of CSS3/i distills the heady technical language of the CSS3 specification into plain English, so you can get started on your next project right away./p pWith real-world examples and a focus on results, iThe Book of CSS3/i shows you how to transform ordinary text into stunning, richly detailed web pages fit for any browser. You'll master the latest cutting-edge CSS features, like multi-column layouts, borders and box effects, and new color and opacity settings. You'll also learn how to:/p ulliStylize text with fully customizable outlines, drop shadows, and other effects/li liCreate, position, and resize unlimited background images on the fly/li liSpice up static web pages with event-driven transitions and animations/li liApply 2D and 3D transformations to text and images/li liUse linear and radial gradients to create smooth color transitions/li liTailor a website's appearance to smartphones and other devices/li /ulpFrom the simplest blog layout to the most feature-rich web portal, iThe Book of CSS3/i puts the whole wide world of web design at your fingertips. The future of web design is now—what will you create with it?/p/div div class="aplus" span class="h1"strong5 Reasons to Start Using CSS3 from the Author/strong/p/span ol listrongDevice-responsive pages/strongbr / The big growth area of web browsing is on smartphone and tablet devices such as Android, iPhone and iPad. New media features and page layout modules in CSS3 let you make pages which respond to the capabilities of the device that's viewing them, automatically optimizing your content for multiple screen sizes and giving your visitors a tailored experience./li br / table align="right" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" tbodytr td align="center"img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/oreilly/css3340x190.jpg" align="center" border="0"/td /tr /tbody/table listrongEye candy!/strongbr / CSS3 brings web documents to life without complicated JavaScript. Rotate, scale and skew page elements in both two and three dimensions, add smooth transitional animations to elements when their values change, and go even further with keyframe animations which give you fine control over the behavior of your page elements./li br / listrongA better reading experience/strongbr / The web was made for reading text, but for years we've had to use a handful of fonts in a very conservative way. CSS3 brings the power to use any font you wish, to decorate the text with drop shadows and outlining, plus new ways of laying out the text such as in multiple columns, like a newspaper or magazine./li br / listrongEasier to maintain/strongbr / Using CSS2.1 usually means adding images (and extra markup) to your documents in order to achieve what should be simple effects. Something as basic as adding rounded corners to an element can mean using up to four extra empty elements to accommodate the graphics required to fake the appearance. CSS3 was created to address just these problems, so you can add rounded corners, drop shadows, gradient backgrounds and much more without writing unnecessary markup or creating multiple image files -- meaning a lot less work to make and maintain your documents./li br / listrongCleaner code/strongbr / The greatly expanded range of selectors in CSS3 means you can add special formatting to links depending on their destination, loop through long tables and lists, even select form elements depending on their current state -- all without having to clutter your code with surplus class attributes./li /ol /div
