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CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training (Hands-On Training)
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CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training (Hands-On Training) |
Author: Eric Meyer
Published: 2006-11-19 |
List price: $49.99
Our price: $31.49
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 A true tutorial about CSS
There are a lot of books about CSS. There are a lot of books pretending to be a tutorial about CSS. In my opinion, this book is one the few recent books about CSS that is worth for a beginner in the field.
 Good for beginning CSS users
This book was a good start for learning CSS. It works solely with code instead of using Dreamweaver CS3 interface box in the design view. I was expecting to learn more about the interface box but the entire book uses code in a text editing program. Overall a decent book but I will definitely need other to supplement it.
 lackluster and thin
This is my beginner's opinion and experience with this book.
Open an html file in a text editor and do this. Now refresh your web browser and see what happens? Wow!
This book is full of just that. It just barely goes into explanation of exactly why you are doing what you are doing, and that really there is another external CSS style sheet that is working in the background of the embedded code you are made to write in the exercises. So in reality it's not so easy. I found it confusing how I kept having to look from the embedded styles in the exercises and the external CSS style sheet to really see how everything worked together. Tedious is the word I would use with this book. It only skims the surface of beginning CSS. It would have been better if we could have completely styled the practice website with explanation, exercises and examples, and then exported the style sheet. Also there is no repetition about what was covered. We are provided with one example and bingo that's it. The rest is left for you to remember. It's not even a good reference book. This book is all over the place.
Also the book uses the same Javaco Tea website, as a practice site that is used in far too many Lynda Weinman books, in my opinion. These books are not cheap and it would be nice if a different example was used. Mix it up a bit. I would have liked to have seen how developers position those cool borders and graphics you see on some sites.
I felt that this book was written in an after thought fashion and does not go into explaining or challenging a person to practice with examples on their own. It lacks substance. It's thin. It would have been nice to see a chapter by chapter review or a summary of the various things we had gone over. A memory device.
What is provided is repetitive do and see exercises that are not fully conceived.
I also read Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics by Jennifer Niederst Robbins and found it much more substantial and richer in detail.
How is this possible?
I'm am very disappointed that the authors have not provided fixes to the CSS that is in this book. How can someone be teaching a book on CSS and that CSS not work in the most widely used browser, IE? I prefer Firefox myself but but I know any CSS layout I create will have to work in IE, no matter what my preferences. So how can I trust this book to teach me CSS that works for designing web layouts? I see that Eric Meyer has other products for CSS layout design but I would never consider buying one due to my experience with this book. I did enjoy the writing style and clarity of this book but I still have a lingering sense of distrust.
Help us learn CSS that works with the realities of dealing with browser capabilities!!!
You'll be pissed if you code on a P.C. in IE6!
It's all fine and dandy that Eric Meyers knows his stuff. This book will teach you CSS in Fire Fox, no doubt about it. But if you are coding to develop websites for IE, you're going to want to toss this book out the window by the time you get to chapters 6 and 7.
How could the publisher put out a book without testing this cross platform and without previewing it in IE6? That's asinine at best! At the very least put out a website as a follow-up to answer questions brought to your attention by your readers.
Example 1: How do you make the negative margins work in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Example 2: Why is the date aligned to the left in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Example 3: Why is the text in the footer not aligned perfectly in IE6 as discussed in exercise 4 of chapter 7?
Test your own product out again, Peach Pit Press. You've written a book without testing the product in Internet Explorer and that is just downright negligent at best.
What a shame too as this instructional manual is otherwise worthy of 4 stars.
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