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Summary: Buy this book if you are new to CSS.
Review: That's what I did and I'm glad I did. This is not the only book you'll need but it is the one you must have. If you are new to CSS, you'll also be new to it's structure and syntax and this book explains this better than any others I've read. The classification of HTML elements into CSS element types (ie. block vs. inline) is hardly seen elsewhere. I think the extensive discussion on fonts was interesting and required for understanding how to code CSS so the browsers will display what you want or as close as you can get. I also enjoyed the style and look of the book itself.
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Summary: Very well organized
Review: The authors organized this book very well. A table of style attributes adorn the inside of the covers. This alone makes the book worth the price. I frequently refer to this table. Inside, the authors carefully explain stylesheets, from their basic composition and application, all the way to advanced features. This book does not spell out the browser-specific implementation, but rather the CSS standards. I look for books just like this one -- well-written (easy to read), straight-forward and well-designed.
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Summary: Very well organized
Review: The authors organized this book very well. A table of style attributes adorn the inside of the covers. This alone makes the book worth the price. I frequently refer to this table. Inside, the authors carefully explain stylesheets, from their basic composition and application, all the way to advanced features. This book does not spell out the browser-specific implementation, but rather the CSS standards. I look for books just like this one -- well-written (easy to read), straight-forward and well-designed.
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Summary: Good content, great style!
Review: The second edition of Lie&Bos is a welcome update for designers using CSS. As more and more browsers support CSS, having a reference book written by the co-authors of the specification is very helpful. The book goes into more depth than most designers will need, but its reassuring to know that answers to all questions can be found when needed. The updated of the book also lists which CSS features are supported by which browsers. The Opera browser comes out on top, with Microsoft and Netscape trailing behind. If you're stuck in the GIF tarpit, this book will help you out!
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Summary: Poorly oragnized, but not totally useless
Review: There are some issues with this book that are purely the publisher's fault. (I am sure the authors are just as annoyed as I am.) Let's get them out of the way first. Inside the back and front covers are what appears to be a handy quick reference. Great idea - except almost all the page numbers are wrong! That makes it completely useless. I have scratched in corrections in my copy, but I am not about to do a complete revision. The first edition had this same flaw, and I had hoped that the second would fix the problem. The index is iffy. That's probably a clue right there to the wishy-washy structure of the book. It seems to be all over the place, with crucial bits of information about a topic filed away under some other topic, often in an example. As a reference work, it's very, very poor. It's written as if the reader is going to read it from start to finish and remember its entire contents. Yeah right. Finally, the complete lack of real-world information about just how badly the various browsers support CSS is rather annoying. Sure, I understand that that stuff gets out of date quickly, but for designers who are targeting NS 4.7, it's useful to know what works and what doesn't. Its sole saving grace (those two stars) is that is does in fact cover most of CSS - by hook or by crook. The examples, though contrived (and again, unrelated to the real world) do illustrate the concepts to a greater or lesser degree.
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Summary: I wouldn't have a job without this book
Review: This book is absolutely indispensable. I don't have any other CSS books and I knew nothing of CSS before I started, but now I know it like the back of my hand. It's not only a great book to learn CSS, but it's also invaluable as a reference tool once you progress. Not one of those books you read then end up only to have to buy a more in-depth book for reference once you have progressed. It's good for everyone, beginner or advanced. Absolutely worth every penny.
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Summary: I wouldn't have a job without this book
Review: This book is absolutely indispensable. I don't have any other CSS books and I knew nothing of CSS before I started, but now I know it like the back of my hand. It's not only a great book to learn CSS, but it's also invaluable as a reference tool once you progress. Not one of those books you read then end up only to have to buy a more in-depth book for reference once you have progressed. It's good for everyone, beginner or advanced. Absolutely worth every penny.
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Summary: Beginners: begin here!
Review: This book is amazingly well-written. As a beginning web designer with basic knowledge of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, as it's name does not tell you, not only gives a fantastic insght into CSS but also gives the reader a stronghold on HTML.. Also, for all web designers with interest in starting XML and XSL, this book is invaluable as a lead-in as to the why's of XML and XSL's existance. Well written and informative. Buy it.
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Summary: Unleash your Web creativity with this book
Review: This book is an essential for anyone doing serious work designing and distributing web pages. It covers all the techical issues that regard the CSS, teaching you how to optimize your Web site performance, build killer Web pages, understand the difference between semantic, logical, and stylistic markup (thus introducing you to XML!) and use the maximum of your Web browser capabilities. If you use this book, you can rest assured that you develop pages with cross browser compatibility. Before this book was published, developers had to extensively test their pages in different browsers through an exhaustive trial-and-error procedure. Now that's all obsolete, as the book includes specific browser compatibility information for most versions of Explorer and Navigator, not to mention Opera! I also have to mention that the book is practical, has a great style and it's hell easy to read. The "artistic" part of it is the best it can be, helping you unleash your creative imagination and realize the amazing capabilities of CSS. Take my advice and buy this book.
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Summary: Use this book to CODE, not to DESIGN.
Review: This book is an indispensible resource if you've already decided HOW to implement CSS on your site and are looking for the best explanations of CSS selectors and syntax. The sections on typography and block-level elements, in particular, are detailed and extremely helpful (all that typography was much more than I needed to know, but it's good that it's there). However, do NOT use this book if you haven't decided yet which CSS methods to use and cross-browser compatibility matters to you (or your clients). Each chapter cheerfully explains CSS features the way the creators WISH they would work, without indicating serious bugs or pitfalls you may encounter in the real world when trying to implement them the way they tell you to. The browser support charts are buried in the back -- they barely scratch the surface, especially where Netscape 4.x is concerned. Making design decisions based on the information in this book could lead to some very unexpected and ugly results. Instead, use O'Reilly's "Cascading Style Sheets: A Definitive Guide", which documents browser compliance much more thoroughly, and turn back to this book as a quick-reference while you code.
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