The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks | 
 enlarge | Author: Rachel Andrew
Publisher: SITEPOINT
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 Who is this book written for? August 26, 2008
WebSanity (Huntingdon, UK)
Before buying this book consider carefully if it is right for you.
If you haven't any grounding in CSS then it isn't a great way of learning: it doesn't walk you through the details of the system, so you will learn by random example - a poor way to learn.
If you are reasonably adept at CSS then the book isn't advanced enough. Case in point: the book steers clear of introducing CSS for full drop down menus - it CAN be done (it is difficult and is very effective for search engine optimisation processes). So, it's not exactly an advanced 'cookbook' to dip into.
So, we guess if you're a middling developer who doesn't want to spend time figuring out how CSS actually works, and are happy to copy and paste fairly simple examples, then this might be the book for you.
However, if you are a beginner, OR looking for more in depth information, then instead go for the excellent "CSS - the missing manual", which will walk you through everything from scratch, give you an excellent grounding in CSS (which you will need if you want to do anything other than copy and pastes of other people's code) AND contains as many examples to base your designs on as this book does anyway (the only downside is that it doesn't match the beautiful print and layout of the Sitepoint books).
Essential for any would-be CSSers May 28, 2008
David Lubich (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having spent many years building sites using non-CSS markup, I've been aware that my skills are increasingly out of date, but have been scared off CSS by its scary reputation (plus my lazy unwillingness to unlearn one markup style and learn a new one!).
After wasting a few weeks with hopeless online tutorials, I bought The CSS Anthology and within a couple of days was building simple, effective pages without resorting to table structures.
That's how good this book is: the author asks and answers the real-world questions that any web editor/developer cares about. The result is that you're so busy solving dozens of small problems (eg:how to create a 3-column layout) that you're soon learning the principles and practicalities of CSS without even realising it. Best of all, the book contains code fragments (downloadable from a dedicated website) so you can easily create working solutions before you get the confidence to tweak them.
Very, very useful book - with a small qualification. November 25, 2007
Considerater (Cambridge UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thoroughly recommend this book as a practical guide to CSS, but personally it could do with just a little more theory (despite the author's comment about it being a practical book) then it would be just perfect.
I should mention that my background is as a programmer in COBOL, C++, VB and other deskop languages, so anyone else with a similar background beware that important syntax considerations are left teasingly unsaid, with the result that I'll be copying loads of her examples but not getting really creative yet because my theoretical understanding is lacking.
One day, all textbooks will be made this way. October 4, 2007
Ian Hiles (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Where was this book when I began with HTML? Until now I've used CSS as a sort of embarrassing relative, and only used it when I really, really had to.
Not only is this book an easy read (without th faux-jokey nature of the Dummies books) but I've yet to come across an example I haven't implemented. My code is shorter, more accessible, easier to edit (no more nested nested tables) and I'm only on chapter 9.
If only Ms Andrew could do something along the same lines for XML...
The best book for CSS beginners September 15, 2007
Sean Johnson (England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of the first CSS books I bought and I still feel it's one of the best for those trying to make the jump from HTML table-layouts to XHTML & CSS layouts. My copy has done the rounds in my office and it's one of the most worn-out, dog-eared books on our shelf which certainly says something about it's popularity and usefulness!
What I like most is the way this book works. It's based around questions, such as "How do I create rollovers in CSS without JavaScript?" or "How do create a fixed-width, centred, two-column layout?" with a solution, clear example images and discussion of the technique. If you're buying your first CSS book then this is an essential purchase.
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