The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, and Hacks: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks

click here for more details, find new or used items	Rachel Andrew Our price £27.99 New from £15.03 Used from £4.21 Pages: 376 (Paperback) ISBN: 0957921888 Pub: SitePoint Pub date: 2004-11-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 138170

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The next step in understanding css (0/0 people found this helpful)

Excellent companion book to Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition. Easy to follow, well illustrated and emphasis on web standards and accessibility. It hasn't left my desk!

Very useful reference guide (0/0 people found this helpful)

I know this book gets five stars already (that's why I bought it) but I just felt it needed another rave review.

I'm new to web design so I still struggle with layouts and weird things that happen on different browsers just when I think I've cracked it. Rachel Andrew's book has been a gift from the Gods. She has many scenarios in a question and answer format and I can just dip in and out when I'm looking for answers. And everything she says simply works.

Who is this book written for? (3/4 people found this helpful)

Before buying this book consider carefully if it is right for you.
If you haven't any grounding in CSS then it isn't a great way of learning: it doesn't walk you through the details of the system, so you will learn by random example - a poor way to learn.
If you are reasonably adept at CSS then the book isn't advanced enough. Case in point: the book steers clear of introducing CSS for full drop down menus - it CAN be done (it is difficult and is very effective for search engine optimisation processes). So, it's not exactly an advanced 'cookbook' to dip into.
So, we guess if you're a middling developer who doesn't want to spend time figuring out how CSS actually works, and are happy to copy and paste fairly simple examples, then this might be the book for you.
However, if you are a beginner, OR looking for more in depth information, then instead go for the excellent "CSS - the missing manual", which will walk you through everything from scratch, give you an excellent grounding in CSS (which you will need if you want to do anything other than copy and pastes of other people's code) AND contains as many examples to base your designs on as this book does anyway (the only downside is that it doesn't match the beautiful print and layout of the Sitepoint books).

Essential for any would-be CSSers (1/1 people found this helpful)

Having spent many years building sites using non-CSS markup, I've been aware that my skills are increasingly out of date, but have been scared off CSS by its scary reputation (plus my lazy unwillingness to unlearn one markup style and learn a new one!).
After wasting a few weeks with hopeless online tutorials, I bought The CSS Anthology and within a couple of days was building simple, effective pages without resorting to table structures.
That's how good this book is: the author asks and answers the real-world questions that any web editor/developer cares about. The result is that you're so busy solving dozens of small problems (eg:how to create a 3-column layout) that you're soon learning the principles and practicalities of CSS without even realising it. Best of all, the book contains code fragments (downloadable from a dedicated website) so you can easily create working solutions before you get the confidence to tweak them.

Very, very useful book - with a small qualification. (0/1 people found this helpful)

I thoroughly recommend this book as a practical guide to CSS, but personally it could do with just a little more theory (despite the author's comment about it being a practical book) then it would be just perfect.

I should mention that my background is as a programmer in COBOL, C++, VB and other deskop languages, so anyone else with a similar background beware that important syntax considerations are left teasingly unsaid, with the result that I'll be copying loads of her examples but not getting really creative yet because my theoretical understanding is lacking.

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