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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (18 Mar 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0764584251
ISBN-13: 978-0764584251
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.8 x 2.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects
This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available
Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development
Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions
U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems

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A step–by–step guide for stepping up from plain HTML

Create Web sites that grab attention, remain consistent, and are easy to update

Attention Web designers! CSS can be your secret weapon, and this book shows you how to use it. CSS helps you create dynamic visual effects, unify the look of your site, and deliver your site′s content in a professional way that gets noticed. It even makes updates and changes a breeze. Here′s what you need to get up to speed!

Discover how to

Create practical style sheets
Format pages that are visually pleasing
Manage details such as colors and backgrounds
Handle lists and tables
Render complex documents

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1.0 out of 5 stars No stars - undermines standards, 10 Sep 2005

By	Iggle Piggle (Catalunya) - See all my reviews

This dreadful book should carry a health warning. One of the major points about CSS and modern web design is that they should be standards compliant and cross-browser friendly. Time after time the author repeats that it's fine to code only for Internet Explorer, and if it doesn't work for anyone else, that's just too bad. If you want to learn about *proper* CSS usage you need a book like Jeffrey Zeldman's 'Designing With Web Standards'. Someone should send a copy of it to the author of this nonsense. This book is not just for dummies, clearly it was also written by one.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer.........., 22 Aug 2007

By	A. Nash (Quito, Ecuador) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Admittedly this book does present CSS in a reasonably clear and detailed manner; pretty good for the beginner.

However this authors obsession with Internet Explorer surpasses irritation.
The book was written in 2005 and apparently in 2005 Internet Explorer dominated 99% or 96% (depending which page you read) of the market. How anyone who is professionally involved with web design doesn't realise the userbase of other browsers is beyond comprehension. Web design and programming is one of the fastest changing technologies in the 21st century. This book still considers Netscape the minority competition when at the time Mozilla was hammering on the door of 14% of the market.

If you can ignore the IE only stuff Mansfield does a good job of explaining the fundementals of CSS and actually using it somewhere. If you are looking to start web design with the intention of being professional I would look elsewhere otherwise you might just find your skills don't keep up with the real world.

The only other problem with this book is that the pictured examples of code sometimes doesn't match the pictured output. Most of the time it's not a problem as the descriptions are pretty good, but sometimes it can also be crucial to the understanding.

One term for budding professionals: cross-browser-compatibility

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not a good book, 29 Jun 2007

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If you want to learn CSS, this is not the book for you. I'm quite competent with html but don't understand a word this book is on about. It's quite a hard thing to grasp anyway but found that the web is the place to find things. This book has been of absolutely no use to me whatsoever.

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