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by Dan Shafer (Author), Rachel Andrew (Author)
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"HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS," 2nd Edition is for web developers looking to create websites using Cascading Style Sheets for layout, which allow for faster page downloads, easier maintenance, faster website redesigns, and better search engine optimization. "HTML Utopia" covers all aspects of using Cascading Style Sheets in Web Development, and is a must-read for Web Developers designing new sites or upgrading existing ones to use CSS layouts. This book includes one of the most comprehensive CSS2 references on the market. Jeffrey Zeldman, web design guru and co-founder of the Web Standards Project, says "After reading this book, you will not only understand how to use CSS to emulate old-school, table-driven web layouts, you will be creating websites that would be impossible to design using traditional methods." The second edition of this popular book includes brand new coverage of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.1, new CSS Solutions, and greatly expanded coverage of popular, cross-browser, CSS layout techniques. From The Back Cover "Now You Too Can Easily Create Modern 'Table-free' Websites Using CSS from scratch" Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer's book is a comprehensive guide to learning and applying the principles of CSS to your Website. This book will teach you how to Write faster loading, dramatically smaller pages Speed up site maintenance by separating the content from the layout Create flexible 3-column designs with ease Write device-independent CSS that will work on everything from a PC to an internet refridgerator Write search engine friendly pages that can actually be understood by search engines Design sites that are standards compliantAccomodate older Web Browsers And much more...


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HTML Utopia is for anyone who wants to use Cascading Style Sheets for web design and layout.

Using the advice given in this book, designers can hone their sites to support faster web page downloads, easier site maintenance, and quicker re-designs. The second edition of this popular book includes brand new coverage of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.5, new CSS Solutions, and greatly expanded coverage of popular, cross-browser, CSS layout techniques.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Must-have reference book, 13 Jan 2007
By Herbie (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
Well written, easy to follow with a wealth of CSS information in the Appendices. It has changed my approach to coding web pages, and I have found it very easy to use to solve coding problems. Very practical advice. But this is not a book for beginners, you need to have a thorough grasp of HTML and a little experience of using CSS, if you are to benefit from this book. A book for geeks ? No, but a book for someone who is dedicated to creating good, modern Web Pages and is prepared to take a lot of trouble in achieving that goal.
Not that I agree whole-heartedly with all the contents (I avoid fixed width layouts like the plague). But a sensible mix of some of the coding techniques shown, with tabular layouts where this is by far the easiest solution, will result in web pages that are easy to maintain, quick to load, and fast to render.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Critical information is lost in overly complex examples, 23 Jul 2007
By Mr. I. A. R. Pollard "ipollard77" (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
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It's telling that you have to wait until chapter 8 (entitled "Simple CSS Layout") until you reach the key part most web designers will be after; i.e. how to create multi-column, web standard, layouts without tables. The first part of the book is given over to semantic explanations of what various CSS controls can do -- none of which have anything to do with "designing without tables". It covers fonts, colours, inheritance, and the like; basically nothing very interesting or useful. Most designers, I'm sure, are using these controls already. The worst thing, however, is that the book's two killer bits of info (how to create a 2 and 3 column box-model layout) are embedded inside massively complex examples with pointless and fussy design flourishes. After pain-painstakingly following the chapters through I realised that 98% of the code they were giving you was nothing to do with the box model at all. I've since downloaded the code for this book and reverse-engineered their box model, but I am still ruing the hours of my time this book has wasted. Never has a book failed so spectacularly to live up to its title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars get a bit of everything, 20 Feb 2009
By Richard Almasi "TheHunn" (Europa) - See all my reviews
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This book came somewhat as a disappointment after I completed the excellent Sitepoint book on basic HTML & CSS called Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, by Ian Lloyd.

The back page of this book said it would be a tutorial book, so I expected that the majority of the book would consist of tutorials, but I was wrong.

This book doesn't seem to know which direction it wants to go:
a reference book, a theory book, or a tutorial book...so you get abit of everything.

1/3 of the book (7 chapters) covers theory: this section has no
exercises or tutorials at all, just examples to look at.

1/3 of the book covers the actual tutorials (3 chapters) where you
build a more advanced website.

1/3 of the book is a reference section.

If I wanted a reference book on CSS I would have bought an actual CSS reference book.
The same goes for theory.

Also, be aware of typos, I have found quite a few in the code.

On the plus side, the writing has the same casual touch as many other
Sitepoint books. If you want clear explanations without too much technical fuss, then you will enjoy this book.
If you have a done a basic course/book on (X)HTML and CSS, such as Ian Lloyd's book, then this book is a good continuation of your learning. It brings up more advanced stuff.

But, if you are looking for a hands-on book with lots of exercises, this is not the best book for you.
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