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Cascading style sheets (CSS) are the modern standard for website presentation. When combined with a structural markup language such as HTML, XHTML, or XML (though not limited to these), cascading style sheets provide Internet browsers with the information that enables them to present all the visual aspects of a web document. Cascading style sheets apply things such as borders, spacing between paragraphs, headings or images, control of font faces or font colors, … More >>
Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
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#1 by Charles A. Wintle on May 23, 2010 - 8:38 am
I am rating this book as 1 star because of the verbose and repetitive nature of the material presented. The author could have been much less wordy. I find this winding and wending makes it difficult to get the most out of the material. Hopefully his editor will come to his/her senses and perform a much needed revision of the book!
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by clue on May 23, 2010 - 9:21 am
this is a good book for the beginner who likes a lot of repetition and hand holding. there is A LOT of overviews, introductions, transitions, summations, and examples to reinforce the concepts being taught. as you might guess, there is A LOT of overlap when the writer and/or editor chooses this type of writing style.
i did learn a lot from reading it, and i did retain the information. however, i might bravely suggest that i could have done this anyway, even if the book contained prodigiously less reiteration.
i would have unreservedly given the book at least 4 stars if it had been more condensed. but that’s how bad the repetition was in this book. it got pretty exhausting at times, for the reader.
for a future edition, i would recommend to the writer and/or editor to cut out all of the needless verbosity.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Brennan Harvey on May 23, 2010 - 12:01 pm
I’ve been going through this book (on chapter 3 right now) and have noticed a couple of idiosyncrasies in the first two chapters. However, when I got to Chapter 3, I really started scratching my head.
Illustrations in a reference book help clarify the information being presented. For example, in a dictionary, a picture of a rabbit, next to the description of a rabbit, enforces the idea of a rabbit. However this book has the following line: “This will produce Figure 3-2 when run, although that figure is not actually shown here.” (p. 72)
Source code is another item, in addition to iullustrations mentioned above, that help clarify the concept an author is teaching. Here, the author didn’t take the time to make these connections between code, concepts, and illustrations consistent. Two pages after the last page mentioned, I read the following parenthetical statement: “(Note that the figure references in the book’s source code don’t always match up with the figure numbers in the book itself.)” (p. 74)
It seems as if the author rushed to complete this project and simply added excuses to cover his missing efforts. I am only on page 74 right now, but with all the weirdness in this book, I’m wondering if I wasted $45.00.
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Tyson J. Randall on May 23, 2010 - 2:07 pm
This is one of the best CSS books I’ve come across. The author is very understandable and the majority of the examples in the book are very useful and informative, although a handful of them could have been left out without detriment to the reader or content-flow of the book. However, after reading through the book only once and actually working through the examples for myself I have become rather confident in using CSS and have designed a number of rather professional websites. I would recommend the book with full faith that any reader interested in honestly learning CSS could do so with a little time and careful attention to the presentations in the book.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by E. Montalvo on May 23, 2010 - 4:20 pm
The book does cover from the easier parts of CSS as well as parts that only relate to Internet Explorer. I don’t think that this book is a beginner’s book and it does provide good coverage of the CSS as it relates to the browsers that work and Internet Explorer — which we call Mr. Alzheimer for many reasons.
I use the book to develop some of the newer sites that I am working on because I don’t have the time to search the Internet for an answer. There is a lot of trial and error involved when it comes to web development and books like this one help reduce this trial and horror.
Rating: 5 / 5