Sections on CSS internals (box model, etc) were quite good, but I wish there were more of them. Also, examples could have been presented more compactly.
This is an incredibly helpful resource for a subject that is extremely complicated. I wish I'd had this book when I first started studying web development, because I would have had several much-needed epiphanies. I have a feeling I'll be referencing this book many times as I struggle through my Intermediate Web Development class.
I have occassionally meddled with the CSS on my blog, but a recent push to redesign the blog and launch my own site got me interested in learning more. Stylin' with CSS was heavily recommended and I have to say I'm not disappointed. The step by step examples are very helpful, especially in the early chapters when going through the core concepts. Definitely a must-read if you are getting into CSS.
Naprawdę niezły podręcznik na temat CSS. Znajduje się tutaj wiele kluczowych informacji, które warto poznać na początku. Nie jest to pozycja niezwykła, niemniej jednak jest ona warta zakupu. Jest to zasadniczo pierwsza książka o CSS, jaką przeczytałem, dlatego też trochę trudno ocenić mi jej jakość, porównując ją do czegokolwiek innego. Oprawa graficzna mogłaby być ciut lepsza. No i książka pomimo wielu aktualizacji ma już swoje lata, czego trudno nie zauważyć.
This is a really nice references book about the CSS where we can find a lot of key information that are good to know at the beginning. This is not an amazing piece of work, nevertheless it’s worth to buy. This is the first book about CSS that I have ever read, that’s why it’s quite difficult to compare it to anything else. Its graphic design could be better. And this book (despite actualizations) is quite old and that’s hard not to notice.
A very good introduction to CSS. The examples in the early chapters are easy to follow and very informative. Chapters 7 & 8 are a little harder to follow and the code from the website is a little harder to match with the examples in the book. It is well worth reading if you are interested in learning CSS.
This is one of the few reference books that I have actually sat down and read cover to cover, and it was completely worth it. For years, I had been struggling with using style sheets. I had learned HTML in a sort of mashed up, thrown-to-the-fire, just-do-it sort of way, but when I tried to do the same thing with CSS, well I failed to grasp the technology's simple beauty and produced frighteningly horrible style sheets.
Finally, I decided that enough was enough and that I had to get this CSS thing sorted out. I went to the book store, selected this book from a myriad of others, on account of its simplicity and clean layout. I then brought it home and started reading.
And the light came on. Over the course of just a few chapters, Wyke-Smith outlined the basic concept of CSS, demonstrated its wide range of uses and helped me establish a firm conceptual foundation, which has allowed me to implement complex style sheets easily and (relatively) painlessly.
If you are just learning CSS, I highly recommend this book.
Aha, this book is just what I needed. It's taught me what I've wanted to know to make webpages that are cool looking but also web standards compliant--meaning that I can make webpages that are readable across many platforms, and by people using screenreaders, or text-only interfaces. Nice! It means learning how to structure content cleanly and then applying the CSS to make it look rad, like I want.