I picked this up to learn the basics of coding a website from scratch. I was technical enough to skip over the basics and just reference what I needed, but I'm a neophyte when it comes to CSS properties, so this book became essential. The diagrams and explanations in this book are well done, a useful guide for beginners and a handy reference when updating a site six months later.

It's a technical book that reads like a normal book, so I wasn't bored and I actually learned something. Will wonders never cease?

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Since I bought this book, CSS has moved onto version 4, XHTML is arguably dead, and HTML5 is old news. I’ve moved three times since then, too, and changed jobs a couple times too.
Back in 07 when I grabbed this book and swore I’d read it, I did not like CSS one bit. Doing things the long way was fine for me.
Recently I read a great Javascript book and it covered CSS pretty gracefully, so I figured why not go back and see where some of this all started.
Old as it is, it was still worth a read-through to refresh some basics, get into CSS, and be amused at how ridiculously hair-splittingly pedantic and bitter some of the browser wars and arguments over syntax were back then. Things are better now, aren’t they?

The book does have some valuable and relevant information but it is hiding behind a lot of cruft, archaic information and bad code examples from other languages.
When I started teaching Web Authoring II at Seattle Central Community College, the previous instructor had setup the class to use this book. I instead switched to CSS Mastery for required reading.

Web Design II class

This book explains things very clearly. It also has a good index, making it an easy to use long-term reference.

An excellent extension of her earlier HTML for the World Wide Web (see my review of that book).

Right book for everyone who wants to learn basics of web desing. Very well organized with many images showing important steps in html and css. Highly recommended.

This book is very clear and easy to understand with lots of pictures.

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Great for beginners! Learned a lot in a short time. Great for skimming and has online support! awesome find! :o)