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Summary: excellent!!!
Comment: A great helper book for all those little things that might happen to go wrong.
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Summary: Great way to learn CSS
Comment: I really like the Q&A format of this book. It's a great way to learn about CSS. I've read 80% of the book so far and think the author explains things very well. She makes it easy to understand when and why to use some CSS rules in each task.
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Summary: very usefull and to the point
Comment: This book, on CSS, is written very clearly with very good illustrations of the poblem as well as the solution.
It is oraganized as a sort of an FAQ, and gets to the point very quickly.
Also it pays an equal amount of attention to the most frequently used browsers anno 2007.
It has chapters for novices on CSS, and it has chapters for advanced users.
For me it worked best to read it from cover to cover, and from there on use the index if I'm running into a CSS problem.
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Summary: All the CSS effects and tricks you want to learn explained clearly
Comment: I consider this book a must have.
All the little things you want to know how to accomplish with CSS are explained clearly with pictures and the code included.
The table of contents is unlike most books. Each individual tip or trick is presented in the form of a question, as if the reader were asking it. So instead of "how to position a background image," for instance, you get "How do I position my background image?" instead. It's an interesting approach that makes the book a little more friendly.
Here are the chapter topics:
1. Getting Started with CSS
2. Text Styling and Other Basics
3. CSS and Images
4. Navigation
5. Tabular Data
6. Forms and User Interfaces
7. Cross-browser Techniques
8. Accessibility and Alternative Devices
9. CSS Positioning and Layout
The chapters on Navigation and CSS Positioning and Layout are worth the cost of the book alone.
As a beginner to CSS recently, this book showed me exactly how to do all the things I wanted to do, quickly. I will keep it on my desk for quick reference in the future.
This book is not meant to teach you CSS but it is meant to show you how to accomplish certain effects using CSS.
Another BIG plus is that you can register your book on the SitePoint site and receive the ENTIRE code file from the book sent to you by email. How great is that?
I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Sorta cheesy lookin' but WOW
Comment: This is what I've been looking for. It just took me ten books to get here. Simple problem-solution format. With tons of examples and source code online. No pandering to noobs, but not written to exclude them, either.
I'm the kind that likes to go right into a project and learn the technologies as I go. I've done a bunch of websites using WYSIWYG editors and got to the point I needed to work the code myself. I checked into current standards and learned about XHTML and CSS. Rather than just modify existing projects, I started fresh and followed standards from the get go.
But since I don't read books on languages or technologies from cover to cover (does anyone?), I need a book that lists possible problems and real solutions. Not pointers to go back and read half a dozen chapters in some "learn over a weekend or a lifetime" kinda thing. This is that book.
My current project needed non-java menus that gave the web2.0 kinda look. Bingo! Here tis.
If you do CSS, you'll find this book useful. CSS reminds me of JCL in that there's no logic involved, just a lot of memorization. This will help when you forget - or never read it in the first place.
Good book - well org'ed.
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