Writing

I have always loved reading and books. When I was younger, I would look at books and marvel at how a person could fill all of those pages with ideas and words all by themselves. Much to my delight, I later learned that I had a knack for writing, and that filling pages could be both enjoyable and sometimes effortless.

Me doing my writing/web thing

Within the last year one of my dearest dreams is now realized: to write and publish a book! I humbly present to you:

The CSS Detective Guide

The CSS Detective Guide is a book on web development using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the presentation and layout of your web pages. If you are novice, or even intermediate web designer/developer, you’ve probably had the experience of thinking your CSS was perfect — up until the moment you test your pages in different browsers.

The CSS Detective Guide is designed to give the inside scoop on the basics of CSS with a special emphasis on common causes of problems, and methods for isolating issues to find the roots of your coding problems. You’ll also get a look at the line-up of usual suspects: the common problems and persistent bugs that are often encountered in CSS. Finally, you’ll put the tools to the test with hands-on cases designed to teach you how to solve CSS problems of your own.

Take a Sneak Peek

PeachPit.com has published a couple of the chapters for people to get a taste of what’s inside the book. If you are curious, you can check out The Introduction and Chapter 1, Investigating the Scene of the Crime as well as Chapter 5, The Case of the Devilish Details.

Still need convincing? Read the reviews on Amazon.com. If you are learning CSS, you should definitely check out the book — it may be exactly the information that you’ve been looking for to help take you to the next CSS level.

InterAct With Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design

Along with my fellow Web Standards Project Education Task Force (WaSP EduTF) members, I contributed the chapter on “Learning Effectively with the Web” to the book InterAct With Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design.

Take a Sneak Peek

This chapter has been published in its entirety on the PeachPit.com website! Check out &dquo;Learning With the Web” from the InterAct With Web Standards book.

Articles

In support of the release of the CSS Detective Guide, I wrote an article about troubleshooting CSS for PeachPit.com: “The Usual Suspects: Detecting and Preventing the Most Common Culprits Behind CSS Problems”. It’s a fun article that introduces some of the most common problems one encounters when starting out with CSS and how to get around them.

Currently, I have several articles in the works slated for various online web magazines, so stay tuned — I will post them as they get published.

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