Average Customer Review:  
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Example | |
Do you want a book which teaches you CSS by examples and also have an author who is willing to help you with questions? Then, BE SURE to purchase this book. I purchased it only a few days after its publication and am very pleased with it. There are example files which you download from the book's website (This eliminates alot of unnecessary typing). A concept is explained and then you are given an example to type in the style sheet and then check in your browser to see what the affect is. This makes it very easy to understand and see the results. In addition, there are 3 appendix which give further valuable information. One in particular lists all the CSS1 properties and descriptions. If you are really interested in learning CSS, purchase THIS book.
| Learn CSS the easy way, by example. | |
Steve Callihan's first book, "Create Your First Web Page in a Weekend" helped me create my own website when I literally didn't know the first thing about how to go about it. He has a teaching style that starts out simply, without assuming prior knowledge. He lays a foundation and then builds on that. It was a great way to learn HTML, and now the same teaching style is helping me learn Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). HTML lets you establish the content of your web pages, but gives you very little control over their presentation. It was never intended to do things like set margins and font sizes, and the TABLE tag wasn't intended as a page layout tool but that's what everyone does with it. However, in this book, Mr. Callihan shows how you can use CSS for page layout and accomplish the same thing, only with much greater control. In fact, CSS gives you the power to control everything about your web pages to achieve any look you want, and it's easy! Steve's book goes way beyond just giving you the properties and values you can use with CSS, but he shows you (by example) HOW and WHY to use them. A lot of work obviously went into this book. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn CSS the easy way. Five stars!
| Wanna learn style sheets? This book is GOLDEN! | |
So you know HTML, you've probably heard of styles sheets, and you want to know more. You want to actually learn them instead of having some confusing reference that assumes you know something already. Hands down, this is your book. Period.You can download example files and use them with the easy to understand exercises in the book. Unlike many computer books, this one is in ENGLISH and the examples actually WORK! Pretty nifty eh? Not only does Steve make style sheets easy to learn, he gives you a heads up as to what browsers may have trouble interpreting style sheets and what to do about it. I've tested these out, primarily in Opera and IE, with no problems whatsoever. (At least) basic knowledge of CSS will make design and presentation of web pages more fluid and easier to manage. It will also come in handy if you focus on search engine optimization. Do you need any special software to get the most out of this book? No. Has Microsoft taken any functionality out of their "consumer" operating systems that will prevent you from using this book? No, you can learn CSS on just about any platform or OS. What do you need besides this book to learn CSS? A plain text editor like notepad and a browser will do the trick. Buy this book if you want to learn style sheets from scratch. Don't even consider anything else. Great work Steve, Thanks!
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