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| CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions | 
 enlarge | Authors: Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, Simon Collison
Publisher: FRIENDS OF ED
Category: Book
List Price: £23.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 5435
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1590596145
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9781590596142
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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 Left me wanting more - but in a good way. May 18, 2008
Great book and does pretty much what it says in the title. I bought this book hoping for some real world examples of how to use CSS to develop sites that work across browsers and to improve my techniques. I wasn't disappointed - I read this cover to cover in only a few sittings and it's been an invaluable reference since.
I would have loved more examples and ideas to develop, but not to the extent that I felt the book was poor value. I can see me referring to this book repeatedly in the future.
 great book November 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
don't be put off by the "advanced" tag...
it's well written and easy to follow...
highly recmmended, great little book...if only all i.t. manuals were written like this!
cheers,
bill
Has the information I needed at my fingertips October 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I needed to quickly create a horizontal menu from a list - just cut and pasted the code from the examples. Worked perfectly.
Then I needed a centered design with a two column layout. Took me 15 minutes from start to finish by reading the chapter on layouts.
This book is superb. It has saved me hours of faffing around with divs and has helped me eliminate tables from my layouts. Superb. Read with Transcending CSS.
Read this book, master CSS, make your sites XHTML compliant and render fast. Its worth the effort to separate structure from design. Took me a while to get my head around it - but it all makes sense now.
Fantastic real-world solutions September 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had originally thumbed through this book, subtitled "Advanced Web Standard Solutions" in my local bookstore and shrugged it off as covering pretty much most of what I'd already digested from other popular CSS books. It wasn't until a friend showed me some cool techniques from the book that I properly read though it and regretted not buying it sooner!
Though it's aimed at the intermediate web designer, it is well written and I would certainly recommend this as an essential buy for all web designers. The book begins with Clear:Left's Andy Budd provides most of the content starting with a chapter about well-structured and meaningful mark-up. It's these best practices that will help catapult you into the realms of CSS Master! It then recaps on the box model, positioning and floats, making it easy for a beginner to pick up this book and run with it, before moving into the techniques, with clear and concise examples, including a couple of good chapters on bugs and hacks.
The final two chapters are where Simon Collison & Cameron Moll step in to demonstrate these examples in two real-world showcase websites. This book is absolutely the best book currently on offer for CSS web design.
 Buy "CSS The Missing Manual" instead June 18, 2007
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this book hoping it would help me to learn some more CSS and help me with the more complicated aspects of it. I found it less than useful, and the several references to the author's favourite bands (in examples) as well as photos of the author and his friends (in another example) were the nail in the coffin. The two 'wonderful' websites used as examples at the end of the book were not remotely attractive either.
Two weeks ago I bought "CSS The Missing Manual", which is 470 pages long, and contains more than three times as much text as CSS Mastery, and takes you through every aspect of CSS, explaining everything along the way. It's the only book I'd recommend for somebody who wants to learn or improve their CSS - avoid CSS Mastery at all costs! How people have been giving it five stars is beyond me - presumably they haven't read 'CSS The Missing Manual' yet.
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