One of the most helpful books everI was given this book as a gift 2 years ago as a Christmas gift. This book along with "Dom Scripting" by Jeremy Keith are my two most used books relating to webdesign. I have just come across this book again in Amazon and felt the need to write this review.
You will have needed to know the basics of CSS before using this book, but upon finishing this book you will know most of what needs to be known about how to use CSS in the best possible way.
Buy it now! 10 stars
Left me wanting more - but in a good way.Great book and does pretty much what it says in the title. I bought this book hoping for some real world examples of how to use CSS to develop sites that work across browsers and to improve my techniques. I wasn't disappointed - I read this cover to cover in only a few sittings and it's been an invaluable reference since.
I would have loved more examples and ideas to develop, but not to the extent that I felt the book was poor value. I can see me referring to this book repeatedly in the future.
great bookdon't be put off by the "advanced" tag...
it's well written and easy to follow...
highly recmmended, great little book...if only all i.t. manuals were written like this!
cheers,
bill
Has the information I needed at my fingertipsI needed to quickly create a horizontal menu from a list - just cut and pasted the code from the examples. Worked perfectly.
Then I needed a centered design with a two column layout. Took me 15 minutes from start to finish by reading the chapter on layouts.
This book is superb. It has saved me hours of faffing around with divs and has helped me eliminate tables from my layouts. Superb. Read with Transcending CSS.
Read this book, master CSS, make your sites XHTML compliant and render fast. Its worth the effort to separate structure from design. Took me a while to get my head around it - but it all makes sense now.
Fantastic real-world solutionsI had originally thumbed through this book, subtitled "Advanced Web Standard Solutions" in my local bookstore and shrugged it off as covering pretty much most of what I'd already digested from other popular CSS books. It wasn't until a friend showed me some cool techniques from the book that I properly read though it and regretted not buying it sooner!
Though it's aimed at the intermediate web designer, it is well written and I would certainly recommend this as an essential buy for all web designers. The book begins with Clear:Left's Andy Budd provides most of the content starting with a chapter about well-structured and meaningful mark-up. It's these best practices that will help catapult you into the realms of CSS Master! It then recaps on the box model, positioning and floats, making it easy for a beginner to pick up this book and run with it, before moving into the techniques, with clear and concise examples, including a couple of good chapters on bugs and hacks.
The final two chapters are where Simon Collison & Cameron Moll step in to demonstrate these examples in two real-world showcase websites. This book is absolutely the best book currently on offer for CSS web design.
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