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CSS Web Design For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
by Richard Mansfield
from For Dummies

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

• CSS Web Design BY Dummies
  This book may have been useful in a IE6-only world. However, since the world has moved on, a book dedicated to CSS-for-IE6 is now outdated, at best. While I appreciate that he is writing from an IE-centric viewpoint and am OK with skipping functions IE doesn't recognize, including ActiveX in an introductory CSS book (in the beginning chapters, even) is simply misguided. Sure, you can fade your text ... if your viewer is willing to accept the ActiveX warnings.
  Further, the author takes the Dummies... more info

• Worst computer book I've ever read
  This was the first "Dummies" book I ever bought and is likely the last. The author has a clear bias against internet standards and is prone to go off on rants about committees and their supposedly bad decisions that make life hard for him. If he had simply stated his positions at the beginning of the book, it would have been fine, but the continual diatribes, many of which are ill-conceived and/or illogical, throughout the book are distracting.
  Don't buy this book. Get the O'Reilly book on CSS. It is... more info

• can't do it
  It has some interesting examples, but it got into unnecessary explanation of the thousands of ways to address a tag, a bit annoying. Then I got to page 91, where the author tries to explain the difference between "relative" and "absolute" positioning of elements. Here I encountered one of my biggest pet peeves. I will let you read it yourself:
  "Of course, as Albert Einstein pointed out, everything is relative except the
  speed of light. So, when we speak of "absolute" positioning, it merely means... more info

• Waste of time and money
  I actually took the time to find this title on Amazon just to write a review (and hopefully save people money).
  I'm not a professional designer, I'm not even a very good hobbyist designer.
  I only know what I need to know to get the result I want on the page.
  So I figured it might be time to actually understand what I'm doing and not copy and alter existing code, and this is the first book on CSS I read.
  And it was not at all helpful.
  I learned a lot more from occasionally... more info

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