The Art and Science of CSS

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See Larger Image	The Art and Science of CSS by: Jonathan Snook, Steve Smith, Jina Bolton, Cameron Adams, David Johnson List Price: $39.95 Amazon.com's Price: $29.16 You Save: $10.79 (27%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $10.31 Third Party New Price: $10.60 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72 EAN: 9780975841976 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0975841971 Label: SitePoint Manufacturer: SitePoint Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: March 09, 2007 Publisher: SitePoint Studio: SitePoint Related Items: The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces That Work HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition see more
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Average Rating: Rating: - This is more of a cookbook This book is good, but it is more of a cookbook approach to CSS than a learn from scratch approach. If you don't already know CSS and have had enough experience playing with it, this book may not provide the best starting point. The language and flow of the book is great and it is very readable. Some of the CSS ideas presented on images, flash replacement of text are good and the authors build them up from simple versions to complete ones which is really nice. Rating: - Great Examples This is probably the best CSS book I've ever seen. It's got lots of interesting and creative ways to use CSS. It's more for experienced users than for people unfamiliar with style sheets. My only knock on it is that it only gives you the CSS, and sometimes assumes that the reader knows the HTML needed to make use of the styles. But the examples the book uses are inventive and unlike any I've seen in other books. This book shows you how the page should look, explains why, and gives you the code. It's pretty easy to understand and has a lot of visuals to help explain concepts. Rating: - Excellent Manual for Modern CSS This is a most excellent and timely book of CSS examples that can be put to quick and good use. Though the book is a couple of years old at this point, it is a great way for a semi-experienced HTML designer or developer to jump in and produce some really good content with CSS. There are loads of code snippets that can be implemented right away. The book is broken up into sections like Images, Navigation and Forms making it easy for the reader to locate what he or she is after. There is a whole section on Rounded Corners which is definitely worth a look. Overall I really enjoy Sitepoint's formatting of their books -- this one included -- which makes it easy to pick out what I'm look for quickly. I've been writing CSS since 1997, and I'm always looking for new ideas and tricks. I found a couple in this book -- you just never know what's going to spark your creativity. This is a particularly good book to pick up if you've been exposed to CSS and now want to put it into use and be really creative with it. Rating: - Great value - probably too short I really like this book. It is EXACTLY what I seek in a design/development book. I want examples, code and explanation. Nothing more. I've been doing this stuff for 7 years, so much of this wasn't particularly new to me, but the value is in seeing what experts think (and why) and then taking what you want from it. No cruft; just good solutions. My only gripe is that it could be considerably longer. The book covers 7 topics really well. I'd like at least 10 more, please. I'm sure this is the most common complaint. Additionally, I could do without the fancy book layout design, but I guess it doesn't hurt. Definite value here. It's next to my desk all the time and I use almost all of their techniques in my projects. It's disappointing that more publishers don't create this kind of book. Rating: - Very short, disappointing I think there are many books that cover this ground a lot better and cheaper as well. Friends of Ed actually has a couple that I would recommend before this. And most certainly Bulletproof Web Design by Cederholm. This book is really light on details and light on content. It's not at all worth its price, and it's only covering the very basics in a small number of areas. This is definitely not one of the first books you should be looking at about CSS.