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Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: e
Essential Techniques
Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
In the previous chapter “Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential
Characteristics”, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be
progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, e
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cient and
typographically rich. Now that you know
what
characterizes a modern CSS
web site,
how
do you build one? Here are dozens of essential techniques
and tools to learn and use to achieve the characteristics of today's most
successful CSS-based web pages.
Just as in the previous chapter, we're not going to be talking about design
trends and styles; these styles are always changing. Instead, we're focusing
on the specific techniques that you need to know to create modern CSS-
based web pages of any style. For each technique or tool, we'll indicate
which of the five characteristics it helps meet. To keep this shorter than an
encyclopedia, we'll also just cover the basics of each technique, then point
you to some useful, hand-picked resources to learn the full details.
You can jump straight to:
• CSS3
• HTML5
• IE Filtering
• Flexible Layouts
• Layout Grids
