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Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)
by Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag
from New Riders Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Web Design Primer, Not a How-To Manual
  I wanted to like this book. If you are new to design, it contains useful sections on page prototyping, grid-based design, color, and design practices. These are things designers should learn about, especially if they arrive in web design from other fields. I give the book three stars for these positive features and for its high production values.
  Physically, the book is about two inches wider than a standard programming book. The paper is heavy and coated with full color all over the place. This is... more info

• Inspires better design, markup, and syling
  This book is a real gem! I read it often just for inspiration. The author is passionate about design, markup, and styling and it rubs off on me. Transcending CSS fills a niche somewhere between the technical manuals and design books. It has had a clear impact on my work.

• Good advice for the intermediate/advanced designer
  Transcending CSS is a book that, as it explains in its opening, isn't intended as a basic overview of CSS. It assumes a solid base of knowledge, and if you have that, the book can be extremely beneficial.
  That's not to say that the book wouldn't be useful to a novice designer, but they might want to pick it up again after they have more experience with the CSS selectors and attributes Clarke uses.
  The book has a lot of material regarding separating layout and style and making semantically correct... more info

• The Last CSS Book You Will Read
  This book is amazing in it's holistic approach to web design using CSS. It's from a designer's perspective and helps a lot in the thought process and workflow departments, then shows you a wonderful way to build up a design from the ground up based on a content-out approach. In some ways I wish that I had read it before any other CSS book, but I don't think I would have been able to appreciate it as much that way - it's an advanced book that has great pacing and brings a large number of design concepts all... more info

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