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HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
by Rachel Andrew
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• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• get a bit of everything
  This book came somewhat as a disappointment after I completed the excellent Sitepoint book on basic HTML & CSS called Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, by Ian Lloyd.
  The back page of this book said it would be a tutorial book, so I expected that the majority of the book would consist of tutorials, but I was wrong.
  This book doesn't seem to know which direction it wants to go:
  a reference book, a theory book, or a tutorial book...so you get abit of everything.more info

• Few examples
  Owners of the book can download a zip file. The zip file contains all the examples, which there are few. You only get 3 examples in the first 6 chapters. I don't really want to read and read and read, I want to practice. The examples in the remaining chapters mostly build on a site adding headers, columns, and footers. I'm not sure I'll get that far, I prefer to learn by doing, not by reading. Here is the breakdown:
  Chapter 1 -- 1 example
  Chapter 2 -- No examples
  Chapter 3 -- No examples... more info

• Excellent
  An Excellent and very informative book. Not only does it have a complete list of CSS 2.1 compliant listings, property by property , but practical use and examples that make it easy to understand and apply. You can't beat Amazon's price. I purchased this and "The CSS Anthology" for the same price as one of the books at BN or Borders. AN Excellent Addition to the Web Programmers Library!

• Great introduction and overall rounded lessons, but lacking in the advanced department
  Its a great book, but doesn't push very far for creativity. Some books smash the information through to you in such a way like its picture book... extreme use of examples. I'm more of the "just give me the methods and information clearly, and lemme fiddle around with my own creativity." The entire book I was thinking to myself "how can I take these examples and convert them into actual web page designs I want to make?"
  Despite that, there is still a lot of information crammed into it. It has a beefy... more info

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