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Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design (Wrox Professional Guides)
by Christopher Schmitt
from Wrox

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• CSS Best Practices
  This book is a little out of date because it does not cover Internet Explorer 7.0. However, it does teach you all the CSS techniques that have been used for the past few years and points you to many resources for more information. I only read this book to review the best practices for using CSS and XHTML.

• The Whole Picture
  I had learned CSS back in 98, when everything was new, and most of what CSS was MEANT to do just didn't work yet. Move forward 9 years and guess what? It still doesn't! However, this book helped me to expand my CSS understanding and do a lot more cool stuff than I used to be able to do. This is an industry that is ever changing and it pays to keep learning.

• mediocre, opinionated, and somewhat boring
  This is not a reference book nor a how to book. It describes web sites & how those sites tackled their display problems. If you have to buy 3 css books, I'd recommend this order:
  1. OReilly - CSS The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer (great reference)
  2. Any good CSS cookbook
  And, if you really need a 3rd book after the 2 above... consider this book along with any of the several others out there.
  PS: I am not a fan of MS either, but if I'm paying good money for a book, I don't want to... more info

• Why is the Download So incomplete
  Another reviewer wrote:
  2. Poor reproduction of graphics. In some cases, it's difficult to see what the authors are trying to represent. Several errors in Chapter 3 ("Blogger: Rollovers and Design Improvements") make the examples very confusing. The book's editing left much to be desired--I found quite a few errors throughout the boo
  I agree completely and WHY WEREN'T THE GRAPHICS INCLUDED IN THE COD E DOWNLOAD? That should have taken no additional effort and made everything a lot clearer!
  I... more info

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