The best beginners CSS book out there.
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My CSS roadmap has consisted of the following three books:
1. Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional
2. CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
3. Pro CSS & HTML Design Patterns
I have also ploughed through the O'reilly books (useful but dry) and a few others, but the above three stood out in my mind as the most useful.
Beginning CSS stands out because it is really useful right from the word go. Its examples are well documented and it is easy to read. By the time I had finished it I was already designing my first website in a standards-based fashion. I had done sites before that, but they were a complete mess (both front and back end!) in comparison to my output after reading this book.
CSS makes web design so much easier. It gives your site a consistent look and feel and makes for a rapid development cycle. IF YOU USE IT PROPERLY!!!
This book shows you how to do just that. It is only an introduction, but it will put you on a very firm foundation for the other books you will need to consume.
If you continue your reading with the other two books I mentioned, you will be on a very firm CSS footing and your websites will be a lot more professional as a result. Supurb.
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Excellent guide to getting started with CSS
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One of the most clearly written IT books I have ever come across. Assuming the reader has a basic knowledge of HTML this book does a really good job of explaining how to use CSS and gives some really good practical examples. A very well thought out and presented publication. It might sound like a small thing but it is really useful is that with the examples the same content is used each time and you can then see how modifying the style sheet the content style changes. Many books confuse the issue by having a unique example for each item and you can't see a comparison, this method makes the changes obvious.
Would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn CSS.
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BRILLIANT!
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I am getting back into Web design, after experimenting with HTML, back when I was at school. Now I have lots of free time, I am getting back into web design.
CSS, is just brilliant, easy, effective, and this book, is just IDEAL, for someone who has used basic HTML knowledge, as it is assuming that you can already develop a HTML site.
A highly recomended book. :D
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good book, shame it's pre IE7
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This is an excellent book on CSS development if, like me you're a beginner to CSS layouts. It's freshing to read a book written with an English sense of humour. Sometimes I find American authors style a bit irritating.
Unfortunately this book was written before IE7 came out and some of the authors points are now irrelevant. e.g. IE now supports text re-size.
I tried some of the CSS layout techniques in chapt 10 with IE7 for the first time. They rendered perfectly in Firefox but in IE7 the images disappeared. They were just simple image and text layouts. Under pressure to deliver I went back to table based layout and it worked fine.
This is a very sensible and practical book but it won't solve all your browser compatibility struggles. That will only happen when MS puts more effort into building a standards compliant browser. For the time being, security is thier priority. Us developers must struggle on...
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A readable book that delivers what it promises
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I've just finished this book having read it cover to cover, and will now be going back to work through the examples page by page. I have to say I was extremely impressed - the examples and explanations are well-written and easy to follow. The book assumes a basic knowledge (though provides handy refreshers on basic XTHML for people like myself who are a bit shaky) but takes you step by step up to the stage where you can create and lay out a full web page with CSS, which was exactly what I wanted.
There were one or two occasions where typos in the example descriptions left me a bit confused for a minute or two, and I personally would have liked a section on pop-up menus, but overall this is an excellent book which told me what I needed to know and was enjoyable to read - highly recommended.
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