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Title: Designing CSS Web Pages by Christopher Schmitt ISBN: 0-7357-1263-8 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (23 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Falls Short on Practical Examples of CSS
Comment: Designing CSS Web Pages has very good chapters on the planning and structuring of content as well as designing web page layouts using liquid designs and suspension designs. The book falls short in my opinion in the actual examples using CSS. The author doesn't take the time to discuss the how and why of using various CSS rules so that the reader gains a full understanding of the CSS standard and it's use in modern browsers. Many of the examples use pre-written designs that cannot be used outside of the context in which they are used. More discussion of the proper usage of absolute positioning as well as the correct times to use em and px would have been appreciated. Overall this is a good book, but it cannot be considered a bible on the usage of progressive CSS design techniques.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Place to Start
Comment: As a person with 8 years of web design experience, I know all too well that things are constantly changing. The vast majority of those years were spent creating table-based layouts. I needed something to jump start me and help me make the switch from table-based to CSS layouts. This book served as the perfect tool.
In reading other reviews, where people complained about errors, I didn't run into this problem. I guess that's because of the way I use books. I simply took the code that Mr. Schmitt has in the book, downloaded the great examples on the book's site, and played with the code enough to gain a solid understanding of the principles that he presented.
Coupling the book's topics with other info readily available on the web and via CSS mailing lists, creating sites with CSS has been (for the most part) a pain-free experience.
My advice? I definitely recommend this book. Just take it with a grain of salt (like any other book or product) and do all you can to get the most out of it. The author definitely knows his stuff, so overall, you can't go wrong.
Rating: 2
Summary: Poorly written, low on content
Comment: I wish I'd paid more attention to the negative reviews of this book because I am very disappointed in it. To begin with, this book is poorly written ("Like I mentioned earlier..." for gosh sakes!), poorly edited and full of errors.
As for what the book is *not*:
- It is not a good introduction to CSS.
- It is not a good explanation of why to adopt CSS. (Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards is infinitely better.)
- It is not a good resource for best practices and dealing with real-world shortcomings in the implementation of CSS. (Among others, Zeldman is much better on that too.)
- It is not a good source of CSS examples. The examples in the book are trivial and pooly explained. There are better examples on lots of free CSS sites and Meyer's Eric Meyer on CSS is a much better book.
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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: 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: Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 0072131780 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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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: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example by Steve Callihan ISBN: 0789726173 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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