This was a tough book for me to finish. The content was not hard, but it had very few code excerpts for reference and was more describing theory than practice. I would recommend this book for designers and developers looking for inspiration, but probably not for someone trying to learn CSS.
This book is more for a somewhat experienced CSS savvy web designer... which is not me. I'm a beginner. But I still definitely learned a lot from this book. A lot of design tips. This was a good book for me to take in and read to acquaint myself with the world of CSS and what it is capable of helping me accomplish.
While it presents some interesting concepts for CSS designs, it is also nearly 15 years old, so it is a little out of date. There are no references to CSS3 and HTML5. Several of the chapters don't go into detail about the coding of CSS either.
This is a great book for inspiration and information. It is based on Dave Shea's conceptual website css Zen Garden, which effectively showcases the incredible flexibility of Cascading Style Sheets.
The book uses several of the different submission designs in order to address and consider different issues of design.
It is an extremely useful book, but be advised that a basic understanding of CSS is really required in order to fully appreciate the content.
Well, I didn't READ this book, per se; I looked at the pretty pictures. And what pretty pictures they were!
This is a good book to either learn from (I assume), or just turn to from time to time to get some web design juices flowing. It inspires you to think of a webpage as a work of art rather than a series of text boxes and padding... or those animated .gif and .midi files that made you want to rip your hair out(although it was "cool" in the 90s, web design has evolved a little from the Geocities days).