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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

dave shea molly e. holzschlag

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Illustrates the range and potential of Web sites afforded by CSS-based Web design, from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects, with a look at layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes. Original. (Intermediate)

296 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1,2005

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296 pages, Perfect Paperback
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January 1, 2005 by Peachpit Pr
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arigatou_ne
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March 26,2025
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This is a good book for illustrating the elegance that can be achieved using CSS for design, and it offers some general principles for basic design and CSS implementation. It is not, however, a technical book or a step-by-step, how-to manual. You won't find any information about CSS syntax or any other detailed technical information. If you already know the basics of CSS and want some conceptual hints for improving layout and design, this is a nice place to start.
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Darkryhr
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March 26,2025
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Not exactly the how-to on CSS layout I was looking for, but still worth a skim if you are looking for inspiration for new layouts.
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homemcordial
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March 26,2025
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This is a good crossover book - a little bit of CSS for designers and a little bit of design for nerds trying to understand the concepts. No great revelations to be had, but it is pretty.
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Bethanyw_31
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March 26,2025
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An interested read, but not universally usable. The examples make good designs for a graphic designer's blog, but just aren't useful for e-commerce, tutorials, forums, etc. (just picture Good Reads using any one of these layouts). There's even one layout that scrolls horizontally. It (and the site) are great for showing the potential of CSS since all designs use the same HTML code but look radically different, but it's not where to go to learn CSS.

There are some good tips regarding the use of color and space, however the code examples are getting very out of date since the book is 11 years old. It talks about XHTML (which was dropped in favor of HTML 5) and doesn't use CSS3.

Over all, a good coffee table book to give your web designer friends, but that's about it.
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Delgado1001
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March 26,2025
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Ha ha! I have a whole stack of these.. anyone want to be my reading buddy? :)
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TheFDog
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March 26,2025
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If you want to learn to design web sites with css this book is a must have.
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Kaungaline
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March 26,2025
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Since I'm a frequent visitor to the excellent CSS Zen Garden web site, I purchased this book hoping that it would enlighten me regarding the technical implementation of some of the more advanced CSS designs. Unfortunately, I think the book just misses the mark. What you get is a brief six page explanation of a particular design concept for each of the 36 included designs. This is all good, but I was hoping to see at least a few of the very advanced designs completely dissected in explanation, from beginning of the source to the end. Intermediate CSS coders will undoubtedly pick up a useful technique or two. Still, it's a good book that could have been great.
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