Integrated HTML and CSS: Integrated HTML and CSS

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Summary: The perfect book for learning standards based web design
Review: There are many books out there that teach HTML, and many that teach CSS, but no other that I have found that combine HTML and CSS, or that clearly explains both the theory and techniques of modern web design in language that beginners can understand. It's truly a hands on book, a combination of guide, tutorial and reference, targeted to beginner and intermediate web designers, that carefully and clearly guides readers through the process of planning and building universally accessible websites that conform to web standards.

It emphasizes thinking the total project through to create designs that work from ground up - thinking about content first, then planning, structuring and building. Each chapter is carefully structured and clearly explained, and gives you everything you need to complete a given task.

My background is in design and marketing, and I've found other books about CSS design to be confusing, unnecessarily theoretical and technical. Where other books are dry, complicated, and often esoteric, this book is focused on plain and simple answers with which even the newest beginners can build standards based sites. It makes learning fun and is focused on real world issues. "Integrated HTML and CSS" is truly "A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn." It is the perfect book for anyone thinking of building a web site, or for learning modern coding techniques based on CSS and web standards.