[seen.to]

Does anyone have this book, and if so is it a good source for learning CSS?
I'm already relatively knowledgable on CSS and use it quite a lot but I want/need to move to eliminating my extensive use of tables for layout - would this book be a good place for me to learn how to do that?



It was published in 2000 btw.

[oli]

tings have moved on from 2000, I wouldnt even bother with a book. Easier and more comprehensive to learn online. I knew next to fuck all about css layouts and learnt it visting places like alistapart but mostly from here ( or stickman to be more precise )

Really good link list here - http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html

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Originally Posted by oli

tings have moved on from 2000

I thought they might have done but wasn't sure

Thanks for the link and for saving me a few quid on an old book

[smallbeer]

I agree that there's loads of free resources out there.

But as far as books do go though, the only one I ever recommend really seems to be "Designing CSS Webpages"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712638/

It might be that it was just the perfect book for me at that time, but after reading it I did think I'd figured out what all this new fangled (at the time) seperating content from presentation meant. It might be getting a bit old now though.

A while ago I also said I didn't see the point in buying Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions: The Markup & Style Handbook, as everything's already been covered on his website. Well someone bought it for me a few weeks ago and too be honest, I'd recommend it now.
I like books I can have at the ready on my desk but aren't just full of appendixes are syntax and can actually be read away from the computer. And it's one of them.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590593812/

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Originally Posted by smallbeer

I agree that there's loads of free resources out there.

But as far as books do go though, the only one I ever recommend really seems to be "Designing CSS Webpages"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712638/

It might be that it was just the perfect book for me at that time, but after reading it I did think I'd figured out what all this new fangled (at the time) seperating content from presentation meant. It might be getting a bit old now though.

Thanks - it arrived today

[ponder]Now can I warrant reading it on paid work time since I want to use a CSS layout on the project I'm being paid for[/ponder]

[Alex]

nope

[seen.to]

Cheers again for the book recommendation Smallbeer :-D

I just finished reading it today (read it an hour a day before starting work) and am now happily building my first standards compliant Web site :-D

It feels nice to have learned something new that I'm now using for a complete project... Though things are taking a little longer at first (e.g. 3 hours to make something that would have taken 15 seconds with a table) it's almost exciting and takes me back to when I first taught myself HTML back in 1997 It's also nice to finally be making something that will validate both for xHTML and CSS

Dealing with browser discrepencies is a bit of a bitch but it least it's not back to the days where I had to make multiple versions of sites to cater for everyone.

[smallbeer]

Glad you found it useful. It's always worrying recommending something - what's works for one doesn't all suit the other.