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Summary: Excellent Reference and Guidance
Comment: For those who want to get their heads around CSS, this is for you.
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Summary: Comprehensive but not overwhelming
Comment: The CSS examples in this book helped me solve some of my web design problems. I'm sure I could have googled and found the answer on the web, but it's sure nice to have something fast and handy when I need it.
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Summary: Every Web Designer Needs This Book!!
Comment: I have been designing web sites for about 4 yrs now and CSS was totally new to me. I bought this book to better understand CSS and I was amazed with how helpful the book is. It tells you pretty much everything you need to know about CSS. I would recommend this book for any web designer or someone who wants to learn how to built web sites.
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Summary: Excellent book on CSS
Comment: The problem with many of the CSS books that I have read is that most of them just reiterate the CSS specification. While this is useful knowledge, it doesn't cover what you need to know to build robust web applications that work consistently across the myriad of browsers on the internet.
This book covers the usual stuff with CSS: styles, precedence rules (the cascade), text and fonts, padding and spacing, the box model, positioning, tables, etc. It also goes into detail about how to apply this knowledge.
Some of the stuff that is included:
- building tabs with the Sliding Doors technique
- Entire chapter related to IE6 and how it diverges from the spec, and work-arounds (aka hacks) that can be used to correct these problems. Other browsers such as Opera and Safari are also covered throughout the book.
- Entire chapter related to floats and using these to create column-based layous. Work-arounds to problems and unexpected behavior are also covered.
- Entire chapter related to forms and how to use CSS for layout
The book is well edited and contains some really good graphics to explain the layout and positioning. Each chapter has a tutorial to help you work through the techniques.
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Summary: This one is a "keeper"
Comment: I looked at all the current CSS books in the store before choosing this one. It got me up to CSS speed in no time. It's definitely one of the nicest, cleanest and best put together technical books I've seen in a very long time. Nice layout, accurate info and very easy to read. I love it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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