Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7 EAN: 9780764584251 ISBN: 0764584251 Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: March 18, 2005 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 165933 Studio: For Dummies
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects
This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available
Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development
Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions
U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Tolerable for casual users
If you're looking for an easy entry into learning CSS and don't care about portability between browsers and operating systems, this is an OK guide. It's easy to read, the tone is casual and friendly, and the basics are described fairly well.
If it's at all important to worry about how things will appear for anything other than IE on Windows, however, this is a very poor choice.
The author covers the basics of CSS fairly well, with only a few glitches and oversimplifications. ... Read More
Rating: - CSS Web Design BY Dummies
This book may have been useful in a IE6-only world. However, since the world has moved on, a book dedicated to CSS-for-IE6 is now outdated, at best. While I appreciate that he is writing from an IE-centric viewpoint and am OK with skipping functions IE doesn't recognize, including ActiveX in an introductory CSS book (in the beginning chapters, even) is simply misguided. Sure, you can fade your text ... if your viewer is willing to accept the ActiveX warnings.
Rating: - Worst computer book I've ever read
This was the first "Dummies" book I ever bought and is likely the last. The author has a clear bias against internet standards and is prone to go off on rants about committees and their supposedly bad decisions that make life hard for him. If he had simply stated his positions at the beginning of the book, it would have been fine, but the continual diatribes, many of which are ill-conceived and/or illogical, throughout the book are distracting.
Don't buy this book. Get the O'Reilly book on ... Read More
Rating: - can't do it
It has some interesting examples, but it got into unnecessary explanation of the thousands of ways to address a tag, a bit annoying. Then I got to page 91, where the author tries to explain the difference between "relative" and "absolute" positioning of elements. Here I encountered one of my biggest pet peeves. I will let you read it yourself:
"Of course, as Albert Einstein pointed out, everything is relative except the
speed of light. So, when we speak of "absolute" positioning, it merely means ... Read More
Rating: - Waste of time and money
I actually took the time to find this title on Amazon just to write a review (and hopefully save people money).
I'm not a professional designer, I'm not even a very good hobbyist designer.
I only know what I need to know to get the result I want on the page.
So I figured it might be time to actually understand what I'm doing and not copy and alter existing code, and this is the first book on CSS I read.
And it was not at all helpful.
I learned a lot more from occasionally ... Read More
- Tolerable for casual users
