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Summary: My CSS Bible!
Review: All the books offered by SitePoint are excellent. This particular book lives on my desk and has become my 'Bible' for CSS/Accessibility!Easy to read, follow and use whether you are experienced or novice, SitePoint books are written in an understandable and concise style. I am constantly watching out for new books that deal with the subjects relevant to my work and would purchase more books from SitePoint without hesitation. I have also recommended all the Sitepoint books to friends and colleagues as a first point of call when looking for literature of this nature. Keep up the excellent work!
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Summary: Stellar!
Review: Dan Shafer is truly a guru. From the first day I landed this book on my shelf, my already enlightened eyes were opened wider to CSS and standards-based web design. Within days, I reinvented my company site from a patchwork of standards and usability blemishes to an all CSS/content-and-presentation-separated site. Thank you Dan and thank you Sitepoint for another great release.
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Summary: Definitely worthwhile
Review: Having struggled my way through "CSS: A Programmers reference" by Eric Meyer, this book came as a breath of fresh air. Comprehensive introduction for those that have little or no .css experience, great gap-filler for those that think they know it all. A few reviews have made the asinine statement that the contents can be "easily found on the web". Well of course they can - as can just about anything you care to think of. I am a regular at alistapart, csszengarden, bluerobot et al - and all the imformation in this book will be imparted by them. However I am of the old school that quite likes having a book to leaf through for education and reference (and the reference section is comprehensive) - and I've yet to find a better book that meets that criteria. The "bundling" of the best advice on the net is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Save yourself a ton of surfing through innacurate and or irrevelent information by grabbing this book :)
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Summary: Thin on practical CSS layout
Review: I got this book hoping it would provide me with an overview of CSS and how to practically use it to design a site using only CSS. While it did provide a good overview of CSS in general and the syntaxt I was disapointed because the book did not provide a hands on guide to practically using CSS to design a site. There is an example site mentioned throughout the book and one chapter is devoted to all the CSS used on that site. However instead of providing a detailed explanation on how to think about design and layout using CSS and the example site like I was hoping the author simply showed the CSS code for each major component of the example site and then simply introduced the new syntax. No explanation of why that code was used and how it fit into the overall CSS design/layout strategy. After reading this book and then many websites to get up and running I finally rebuilt one page of my site. As it turns out it is actually a tiny bit larger (file size) than my all tables site. I'm now looking for another book that teaches how to use CSS in a practical web design environment.
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Summary: Great instruction but off topic at times
Review: I have been developing for 5 years now and was interested in getting a refresher on the use of CSS in place of slow loading tables. This book does a wonderful job of closing the gap on such topics but seems to meander into the other facets of CSS (fonts, colors, etc.). Judging from the title, I assumed that this book would focus exclusively on building CSS position and layout structures into web pages ... but this only holds true about 25% of the time. Despite this departure, the instruction is clear and well founded. I finished the thing in a day so I can't complain too much :). Update: Frustrated with my initial impression of this book I read it again! My original review stands. I will say however, that the book is a great refresher for those who are new to CSS.
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Summary: Don't get RIPPED OFF!
Review: I have been developing software for over 18 yrs. In that time I have bought hundreds of computer books. This book is by far the worst computer book that I have ever purchased. After reading this book, I had to look at its cover again to make sure I had the correct title. This book claims to be a practical step-by-step guide to teach you how to design web sites without tables using CSS, but it doesn't even come close. This book should be called "An overview of CSS with a special 200 pages of Reference Filler". I don't need another overview of CSS and I already have several good reference books. I made the mistake of buying this book off the Sitepoint web site before it became available on amazon. The marketing hype and false reviews on that site fooled me. Trick me once Sitepoint, shame on you, trick me twice, shame on me.
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Summary: High cost, low value. Stay away from this book!
Review: I have frequented the sitepoint website on several occassions. It is basically a website purporting to be a source of information for designers while really being nothing more than a hype machine to sell their publications. This book is much like the website of sitepoint. Much hype with little substance. While there is some filler in this book that might be helpful to the CSS neophyte, it is certainly not a book with a singular focus on designing table-less websites using CSS. I'm afraid this book will do little more than lighten your wallet and lessen the available space on your bookshelf for books of more substance.
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Summary: It's About Time!
Review: I have to disagree with most of the reviews regarding this book. Mr. Shafer has been there from the start where this area of web development is concerned, and I found the book an invaluable tool as a college IT student. The CSS reference is thorough, accurate, and conforms to the W3C recommended standards. Mr. Shafer demonstrates a talent for taking what could prove to be a large and complicated subject and simplifying it so even beginners can understand. The author also effectively hammers the point (and rightly so) that there is an important necessity in separating web content from how the content is presented. So the book is a bit on the costly side, so what? What computer books aren't these days? That cost is offsite in the valuable references provided in the book. If you're a web developer or designer who has grown tired of strong-typing those insipid <table> tags, or mucking through hundreds of lines of HTML code with thick layers of nested tables, this book is definitely for you! I believe the title is unequivocally accurate, and I happen to think Mr. Shafer knows EXACTLY what he's talking about. It's about time somebody put a topic like this in perspective.
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Summary: Intuitive and Easy to Learn from Book
Review: I purchased both PHP Anthologies; Designing without Tables using CSS; Build
your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MYSQL and Build Your Own
Website Using ASP.NET. The only thing missing from all these books is a
firewire port that I could some-how connect to a new futuristic device that
would transmit all the information into my brain quickly and painlessly.
Now there's an idea! :D
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Summary: Misleading Title
Review: I think this book is a wonderful overview of CSS1 and some coverage of CSS-P (Positioning). Given the title, I was led to believe that there would extensive coverage on how to take table design into a design without tables through use of CSS-P. However this was not the case, and as such I was sorely disappointed. I think a more representative title would be "Designing with CSS". I could go into details, but I think you get the point. Another thing to note about the book was the excessive price in contrast to the quality of the printed pages itself. The book looks as if it was xeroxed at Kinkos or a copy/print shop near you.
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