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Title: Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 0-07-213178-0 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best reference guide to CSS2
Comment: I bought this book several months ago when I first started out using Cascading Style Sheets. I had come across Eric Meyer's work when I visited his web site (meyerweb.com) and I was deeply impressed with the demonstrations he gave, particularly when toying with "position: fixed".
Every CSS rule is covered, including print and aural rules. Each rule is given a sophisticated explanation and a few examples. I have several books on CSS, but none come close to explaining the details of each rule as well as Mr Meyer's work.
I always have my copy with me when styling pages. The book is quite small, which means it can happily sit on the desk with the keyboard where can be accessed easily.
I VERY strongly recommend that designers have a copy. It is particularly important for those who use CSS frequently.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great and Thorough Reference- say it out loud.... REFERENCE
Comment: This is a reference book.
It says that in the title but some of the negative reviews on this book seem to have overlooked that. It is NOT a turorial. It is NOT going to be a magic book to give you all your ideas so you don't have to think and have good design skills.
What it is...
A really good, thorough, reference book on CSS2. This guy knows his stuff and presents it clearly and without any clutter. It is laid out so you can easily find every element, property, and atribute there is. Sure you could go to the World Wide Web Consortium's web site for the info, but when you're in the middle of coding - a good REFERENCE book is still tops for getting info fast. And in my opinion, the layout of the book makes more sense than the w3's web site (though it is valuable too).
To those just starting with CSS-
This book may be hard to grasp at first. Buy it anyway. Find a few web sites to get the basics down because this will be the book you'll want to have after your first week, when what you need is a reference and not a dumbed down overworded tutorial with examples that don't fit your application anyway.
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful Information, But Definitely Not For Beginners
Comment: Since I've gotten this book, I've used it constantly as a reference for what I'll need within my detailed style sheets for my websites. It is extremely useful, but I would caution against beginning to intermediate level people using this book in high hopes of it showing how to use CSS effectively. The book clearly assumes that you have a proper understanding of CSS structure (only touching on it briefly within one section) and knowledge of what it requires within the context of HTML to make it work. None of this is clearly demonstrated. It is a resource akin to a dictionary when you're not sure of something's usage or meaning. In that sense, it is excellent. I would have liked, however, if there was some section for anticipated things within the progress of CSS (moving toward version 3.0 and any addendum aspects such as RUBY within the 2.0 scheme), so that developers and designers alike can 'think forward' for future sites and how they would be implemented.
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Title: Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 073571245X Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 28 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman ISBN: 0735712018 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 14 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer ISBN: 1565926226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Designing CSS Web Pages by Christopher Schmitt ISBN: 0735712638 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization by Andrew B. King ISBN: 0735713243 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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