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Publication Date: 25 Feb 2010 | ISBN-10: 0596157606 | ISBN-13: 978-0596157609 | Edition: 1

HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing, and unnecessary HTML hacks and workarounds. Author Ben Henick shows you how to avoid those traps by going beyond the standard tips, tricks, and techniques to connect the underlying theory and design of HTML and CSS to your everyday work habits.

With this practical book, you'll learn how to work with these tools far more effectively than is standard practice for most web developers. Whether you handcraft individual pages or build templates, HTML & CSS: The Good Parts will help you get the most out of these tools in all aspects of web page design-from layout to typography and to color.

  • Structure HTML markup to maximize the power of CSS
  • Implement complex multi-column layouts from scratch
  • Improve site production values with advanced CSS techniques
  • Support formal usability and accessibility requirements with tools built into HTML and CSS
  • Avoid the most annoying browser and platform limitations

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (25 Feb 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596157606
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596157609
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 1.9 x 23.2 cm
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Ben Henick has been building Web sites since September 1995, when he took on his first Web project as an academic volunteer. He has worked in nearly every aspect of site design and development, from foundation HTML through finicky CSS to larger scale architecture and content management. He has written for A List Apart, the Web Standards Project, and most recently for Opera Software's Web Standards Curriculum.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good in parts 27 May 2010
By Douglas Reed
Format:Paperback
This is a good, but slightly odd book. The other "Good Parts" book JavaScript: The Good Parts is a well laid out argument for using a "good" subset of the JavaScript language, while eschewing the "bad parts". I was expecting something similar from this book, but instead we get a much more general web style guide, with a "bad parts" chapter tacked on at the end.

That said, the information here is still excellent. As a web style guide, it is better than most, with clear, concise and up-to-date advice on subjects like semantic HTML, CSS layout, use of colour and imagery, typography, and design of tables and forms. Much of the information appears scattered through other books, but it's good to see it all brought together in one place and laid out so clearly. Sometimes the author gets a bit carried away - the section on the 5,000 year history of writing and typography was entertaining but unnecessary - but he makes up for it in other places by providing genuinely useful reference information in a clear and concise way - like the glossary of typographical terms and description of character encoding in the same typography chapter.

The "bad parts" chapter feels like an afterthought - an irascible polemic against the vagaries of Internet Explorer and deprecated HTML tags. There are still a few thought-provoking moments and useful nuggets of information here, but it is mainly the author letting-off steam.

In summary this is an excellent web style guide that has been rather uncomfortably shoehorned to fit O'Reilley's "Good Parts" format. It will be staying close to my desk.
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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Unorganized, Wordy, and Lacking Content 4 July 2010
By Randall Degges - Published on Amazon.com
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I'm a professional developer, and have only recently begun writing front-end websites (mostly as a hobby) over the past year or so.

I picked up this book because I was looking for a detailed guide to HTML and CSS which covered best-practices, code minimization, and provided some real world examples of what to do, and what not to do when writing large website frontends.

In short, this book did NOT live up to my expectations in the least.

First off, this book is just shy of 300 pages of content, which could easily be summed up in ~10 pages. The author is EXTREMELY verbose, and seems to drag on and on with every little insignificant detail in the text.

Secondly, this book contains almost no code samples at all. There are very few code snippets throughout the book, and the ones that are provided are small, not rendered with any pictures near them (which is unforgivable, as they are supposed to show how certain CSS attributes can display data), and extremely simple. If the author would have added images / diagrams to at least show how the CSS snippets effect the design of the page, I would be slightly more understanding here.

Thirdly, this book doesn't really discuss the 'good parts' of HTML and CSS. Sure, it has chapters labeled Good Parts, Bad Parts, and Awful Parts, but it doesn't actually draw any meaningful distinctions between what is good, what is bad, and WHY.

Over all, this book is not worth the money. It:

1. Seems quickly thrown together.
2. Is far too verbose.
3. Does not have enough code samples / diagrams.
4. Has almost no real content.
5. Doesn't explain anything about the 'good', 'bad', and 'awful' parts of HTML or CSS.

I honestly can't recommend this book to anyone, as it is not geared towards beginners, intermediate developers, or advanced users.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Ask Felgall - Book Review 22 Dec 2011
By Stephen Chapman - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This book has completely the wrong name. It should have been called "How not to write your HTML and CSS". While the book is divided into chapters with only one chapter labelled as "The bad parts", that chapter actually contains just the worst parts. The bad parts are actually scattered through the book masquerading as good parts.

I am not even going to attempt to list what things the author got wrong in this book as doing so would require that I write a book at least the size of the one I am reviewing in order to explain it all properly.

To be fair to the author of the book I will mention one thing that the book gets wrong just as an example. Its a huge example too since it impacts on much of the book content. - Back at the end of the 20th Century a new version of HTML was developed called HTML 4. The idea was to get rid of all the bad presentational HTML and replace it with CSS. Note that the standard said way back then that these presentational HTML tags are bad. Of course it was a few years before all browsers properly supported HTML 4 but by about 2004 or 2005 it was possible to write web pages that comply with the HTML 4 standard and which work in all commonly used browsers. Now of course some people had already got lots of web pages that were written to the old HTML 3.2 standard and converting them all to HTML 4 would take a long time. To cater for all these old pages the new standard defined two different doctypes that can be used - a strict doctype for pages written using just HTML 4 without all the bad tags (which the standard listed as deprecated) and a transitional doctype that allowed all the bad HTML 3.2 tags while the page is being slowly transitioned from HTML 3.2 to HTML 4 by removal of these tags defined as bad by the standards. The author of this book actually recommends allowing tags that according to the standards are bad by recommending the use of the transitional doctype on page 13 of the book as the doctype to use for new projects.

Unfortunately, while there are a few sections in the book that actually do provide useful information about the good parts of HTML and CSS they are scattered in amongst bad parts masquerading as good to such an extent that unless you already know what this book is supposed to be teaching you have no way of identifying which is which and if you do already know it then you don't need the book.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I wanted 3 Jan 2011
By Neal J. Burns - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I bought this book at the same time as Javascript: The Good Parts, hoping that it would teach me the most useful parts of CSS and HTML without being too verbose. That is exactly what the Javascript book did, but this one proved almost useless in that respect. Rather than present the important parts of CSS and HTML in a logical and comprehensible fashion, this book instead gives a lot of wordy advice apparently intended for people who already know HTML and CSS. Reading some of the glowing reviews on Amazon leads me to think that perhaps it's not worthless, but just misnamed. Perhaps a better name would have been "Essays on HTML and CSS Style." I'm not qualified to write a review of that hypothetical book. But if you are hoping to learn CSS and HTML, I don't recommend buying this.
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