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For beauty, be patient.
I've been an admirer of the CSS Zen Garden online for a number of years and when I caught sight of this book I knew I had to add it to me design collection.
This book is NOT a reference or tutorial in the fullest sense - but it's a brilliant inspiration of what can be done with CSS to craft artistic, striking and unique web sites that allow yours to stand out from the mundane crowd.
If you are looking for design ideas, design tips and a few good suggestions add this to a good tutorial guide and you'll not want for anything.
Remember though, that many of the designers featured in this book have spent long hard hours to perfect their designs and ensure they were compliant to both CSS standards and the idiocy of browser programmers. If you want the same then you'll need the patience to work through the standards and the lack of browser compliance. Perhaps one day we can all look forward to even better designs when all browsers comply to a universal presentation standard.
Brilliant!
If you thought standard-compliant CSS web pages had to be boxy and bland, this book will show you how wrong you were. The book simply shows many designs for the same web page and then talks you through the logic behind the CSS techniques used in the design. It is a great source of inspiration. What the book is not is a CSS reference book - try the O'Reilly series for one of these. What this book is, however, is a demonstration of what can be acheived with a modicum of CSS skills and a lot of artistic talent.
Take a walk in the garden...
This book is delightful, like the website behind it.
Theres a lot of books about CSS, most of them is CSS
from a to z, and you only get small pieces of what you
actually can with CSS. The strong point for The Zen of
CSS design is that you can find a lots of ideas about
have you can realise your own ideas. Learn CSS of other
books and when they dry out, read this book.
Nice book, but not a CSS book - buy with care
I bought this book thinking it was a CSS book, and would give me some insight into how the CSS Zen Garden designs were done. Let me say right off that it was a big disappointment from this point of view. This book is NOT a CSS book.
The book concentrates mainly on design ideas, which is also useful, but not what it claims to cover. Some of these ideas were explained well, some less so.
The book was pleasant reading, and was very nicely produced, but it's doubtful you'll learn a great deal from it. Buy it for interest, don't buy it for education.
P.S. I gave it four stars as it was a very nice read, it just wasn't what I thought when I bought it.
Inspiring...
I have to say that this book does achieve what it sets out to do and shows you just what can be achieved with CSS.
I echo other reviewer's sentiments in that this is most certainly NOT a guide to the mechanics of CSS but I do not believe that is the aim of this book. It does, however, explain how certain aspects of the designs were achieved through CSS but with the focus more on graphic design than nuts and bolts.
I found it inspiring. If you're short of ideas or you're looking for something extra special then this book is for you but only if you have a reasonable grounding in CSS to begin with.
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