Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition)
by Charles Wyke-Smith
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Book Summary Information
Author: Charles Wyke-SmithEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-29
ISBN: 0321525566
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: New Riders Press
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Book Reviews of Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition)
Book Review: Decent intro with confusing advanced concepts
Summary: 3 Stars
As someone who has a fairly solid grounding in CSS basics, but is seeking to improve his understanding of some concepts, I read this book with a slightly different view than some. I came into the book expecting the first few chapters to be of little use to me, and was not surprised, but I also felt that they would provide excellent grounding for a beginner.
Where my review begins to take a turn for the worse comes towards the end of the book. One problem I had came from the "Creating CSS-Based Menus" section of chapter 6, on creating pop-up menus without JavaScript. Early in this section, the author floats the items in a list, and shows that the enclosing <div> and <ul> tags "close up" since there is no non-floated content. This makes sense, but then he says that if you were "paying attention in the Floating and Clearing section of Chapter 4," you'll know you should float those items as well to make them expand to enclose the floated list items. Although I had read and understood that section, this was in no way clear to me as the best solution, and I was left wondering why. I have not yet found a better solution, but lack of explanation has left me feeling that this is more of a hack than an ideal solution.
I became further concerned that the author has too much love for floats later on when he demonstrates a single line of text right-aligned using a right float, despite the fact that there was no content for it to float to the right of. I did not understand why he did not use the more semantically-clear CSS "text-align: right;"
I also felt that there were a lot of topics left unexplained and booby-traps left for the inexperienced coder. For example, using the author's 2-column layout code works, but there is no mention of the fact that, if you for some reason wanted to omit the enclosing wrapper, the floated nav block and the content block no longer have their tops aligned. This, and other problems, could easily befuddle novices trying to adapt his techniques to their own sites, when simple explanations of such problems would have been easy.
My final problem: Appendix B is completely useless. I am assuming it has not been updated in some time, as it makes no mention at all of Internet Explorer 6, 7 or 8, Firefox 2 or 3 or any version of Safari. Since these browsers are the most commonly-used browsers now, by his own admission earlier in the book, this appendix becomes nothing more than a footnote of history.
Summary of Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition)
Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS (no JavaScript required). Discover how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get started and build your skills is right here in this book. You?ll be stylin? in no time!Graphics & Illustration Books
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