The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.
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Rating: - Their 10 minutes are a lot longer than mine
Very clearly written so that the CSS coding can be understood. The chapters are broken into easily understood bits. That said, however, "Lessons" is a very loosely used term, and 10 minutes is exceptionally optimistic. There are no lessons per se. The downloadable "Lessons" are simply the codes that are illustrated in the book. No real "Do this" type exercises to see what is happening. You have to sort of play on your own unless you are better than I at understanding abstract concepts.
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Rating: - James Tadeo, Web Design Brampton
I work with Web sites every day and will need a reference now and again to get my work done. This book is handy and fits nicely in my pack and acts as my main reference for CSS. The examples are clear and build from the previous chapters. It also has an accompanying Web site that shows you what the CSS script will look like when implemented. I believe this is a good starter book and the price is just right.
Rating: - Cryptic
No plain English explanation of the reasoning behind the code. Assumes you'll understand what he means by "adjacent sibling selectors" and "document tree". I gleaned some knowledge by copying the examples and trial and error, but it was frustrating and tedious. If you're a programmer you might be able to decipher this book, but if you're a newbie you'll get a clearer introduction, with relevant details, from a book like "HeadFirst HTML" by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman.
Rating: - Nice guideline to stilesheet's nightmare
A useful book for who wants to begin to develop a styled sheet HTML page from scratch. Non so teaching but more friendly.
Rating: - perfect for what it is
Yes, you're not going to become an expert on CSS with this book. But this was my first time working with stylesheets and I was able to get up to speed very quickly - I went through the book in 1 hour WITH running and editing the code (which can be downloaded from SAMS website) to make sure I understood all the examples (disclaimer: I have a PhD in Engineering with 2 minors and I'm proficient in many programming languages). The examples will seem repetitive only if you're not in front of the computer ... Read More
- Their 10 minutes are a lot longer than mine
- James Tadeo, Web Design Brampton
- Cryptic
- perfect for what it is
