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Summary: Tools for the rest of us
Comment: Most CSS tool books cater to the professional. While this book could teach many professionals a thing or two, it is an outstanding handbook for the amateur web builder, no matter how complex a website you imagine.
It helps you generate a clean, and changeable design in the simplest and most straightforward way possible. Good examples and good illustrations.
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Summary: Easy read, gets you up and running with CSS fast
Comment: Clear and easy to understand, thorough in it's coverage. I read it twice and it really helped me more than any other CSS book or tutorial.
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Summary: A God Send!!!
Comment: An absolutely brilliant book.
I would strongly recommend it to anyone struggling with CSS, not quite grasped it yet, or who's just completely new to building their own websites.
Very well illustrated, commented, and some great take-away resources such as style libraries etc.
Brilliant! :) You'll be coding your own XHTML and CSS in just a few days with this book.
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Summary: Smokin' CSS
Comment: Charles Wyke-Smith definitely has away with disarming technical issues and instilling you with a desire and determination to accomplish your coding goals. This book explain CSS in a straight forward and easy to understand way and this book will continue to serve you well as a handy reference.
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Summary: Best Source on How CSS Works
Comment: Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)RE: Wyke-Smith's CSS Book: I've come to appreciate this book so much that I don't know where to begin in recommending it. I had read (studied) several books on how to mark up and style web pages, but not until I began reading this one did lingering questions finally get answered at the very outset. For Example, Chapter 2 "How CSS Works" masterfully gives you such insight into concepts like inheritance, the cascade, sequences, precedence, specificity, etc. that it inspires new-found confidence you can implement web design with precision. The author rightfully states "Truly understanding just a few techniques can turn a struggling newbie into a competent CSS journeyman." (THESE INSIGHTS ARE A GREAT TROUBLESHOOTING AID.) He teaches you how to exploit the latest W3C Standards so you can produce sleek and powerful styling. In 300 pages he describes, and abundantly illustrates in color, a wide range of the latest techniques helpful to experts as well as to beginners.(Read back cover for range of topics.) I found it hard to put this book down, and carried it everywhere. Once, I spilled coffee on it in a restaurant, but the paper quality is so good a few hours exposure to the sun restored it like new. Try comparing this book with others and you will see why I recommend it enthusiastically.
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