Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72 EAN: 9780735712638 ISBN: 0735712638 Label: New Riders Press Manufacturer: New Riders Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: September 30, 2002 Publisher: New Riders Press Sales Rank: 633362 Studio: New Riders Press
Go beyond the mechanics of CSS to how to think in the language of web design, and avoid the common pitfalls. Full of examples and deconstruction's to aid in understanding CSS and its application. The ability to use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is fast becoming a vital tool in the web professional's toolkit. But understanding how to use CSS is not intuitive--it requires a new way of thinking when it comes to building web pages. This book encourages web designers to look at the perceived limitations of the web as a new challenge to their design skills--without relying on HTML for presentation of pages. The overall theme is to instruct readers to build pages by using relative design techniques: understanding the relationship within the dynamic space of the web rather than the fixed-design 'old-school' notions that have been in use for so long. The web site will include all of the files needed for the exercises and additional information of interest to web professionals including, but not limited to, recommended readings (suggested books, web sites and online articles), full-length interviews and a listing of CSS tools. www.christopher.org
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not terrible, not great.
The book is okay. Its not as good as some others, but its not poorly done. The section on multiple column layouts was probably the best. Its not going to be the only book you buy on the subject or the one you go to first, but its not terrible to have for an occasional reference. Some of the constructs put forth in the book have since been replaced by the css wizards over at alistapart, so some of the techniques are a little dated & overly complex.
Rating: - Very Confusing
I found this book to be very confusing from the beginning. I stopped reading it and am returning it tomarow. They dont get specific with thier examples. Bad Book!
Rating: - Completely misses the spirit of CSS
The whole point about CSS is to make html that is readable and this book completely misses it. Most of the larger examples use indentation rules that make the text completely unreadable. There are much better books around on CSS.
Rating: - Disappointing
The author wrote O'Reilly's CSS Cookbook, which is a pretty good book. However, Designing CSS Web Pages is only potentially a pretty-good book. It needs serious technical AND simple gramatical editing. Some of the sentences aren't sentences. Some of the illustrations don't match the concept they're meant to illustrate. And, worst of all, the author often omits to tell you just why in heck he's just added something to the code. That's unforgivable. That alone defeats the point of reading the ... Read More
Rating: - Take note...
The companion website for this book no longer exists! Major turnoff for me. I'm returning the book tomorrow.
- Very Confusing
- Take note...
