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Summary: Great for what it is
Comment: I'm giving this 5 stars, because it does what it's meant to do. It gives you a crash course in CSS. I've been a big fan of O'Reilly books for a while now. The "Definitive Guide" ones are massive and have tons of information, but they're really dry. This series is sort of a watered down version of those, but it's easier to learn from at a quicker pace. I'm not sure how well this approach would work on a harder topic, but it's pretty good for something simple and fun like CSS.
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Summary: An Absolutely "Must Have" for Anyone Serious About Learning CSS
Comment: CSS: The Missing Manual is just a terrific book for anyone who has the slightest interest in learning about Cascading Style Sheets and how they can create stunning web pages.
This book is clearly written with step-by-step instructions that are both easy to follow and fun to try. Best of all...you'll find yourself creating some pretty nice web pages via CSS in no time...and saying, "So that's how they do that!" The downloadable chapter lessons are an extra bonus that I found to be extremely helpful.
If you have the patience and dedication...and really want to learn CSS, this is "the" one book to buy. It's worth every penny of it's $35.00 list price. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Excellent guided introduction to CSS
Comment: In my business, I have a constant need to learn new technologies, protocols and methodologies. It's a never-ending need and, fortunately from my perspective, enjoyable much of the time.
What makes it enjoyable are learning aids like "CSS: The Missing Manual".
Author McFarland takes the reader step-by-step through CSS from the very basics through a moderately high level of understanding. He does it in small, amply illustrated examples that are clear and relatively free of errors. (McFarland does maintain a website where examples and errata may be downloaded.)
McFarland's style is very clear and he doesn't find a need to resort to the stupid humor found in too many books explaining technology.
Overall, a great little teaching aid and a credit to the Missing Manuals series.
Jerry
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Summary: Great resource
Comment: This book is a great and authoritative guide to CSS programming. It's easy to read and has good examples and tutorials that makes a sometimes-complex "language" easy to understand. The bugs in various implementations are discussed with frankness and confidence that gives the reader less intimidation about workarounds. I found this a fantastic guide, and well conceived and executed.
I own several "Missing Manual" guides, and impressed with how they read appropriate to most any level of existing experience or skill, unlike some of the "Dummies & Idiots" guides, which seem to only be an appetizer to another, better guide when you need to further your knowledge.
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Summary: Outstanding writer. Outstanding book.
Comment: This book is by far the best book out there if you want to learn Dreamweaver CS3. Not only does the author show you important features of the program, he explains web design concepts and principles. This is the best $30 I've ever spent. Thank you David for such a great book.
You should write every book for all of Adobe's products.
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