About a month ago I bought a book on HTML, and learned the basics and got started. I've designed about 10 or 15 pages for my website, and I started using some CSS to format items that had to be a certain size, certain color certain background, etc. and I am now completely Sold on CSS. I was wondering what the best book out there is. I was hoping to find one that didn't tell you how to do anything with HTML if there was a way to do it with CSS. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am currently getting rid of all of the tables I used to layout my pages
(the book I read suggested using tables for layout) before I realized the drawbacks of tables, and the power of CSS.Introductory tutorials: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp">http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp</a><!-- m -->
Definitive reference: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/Thanks">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/Thanks</a><!-- m --> for the links. That should keep me busy for a while.For books...
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Granted getting all three books means getting beaten over the head with repeated concepts, but at least checking out one of them would be good. You should be able to see samples for each of the books.If you are new, I can't speak highly enough about SAMS teach yourself CSS in 24 hours.
It has a great breakdown of the code, and the end of each chapter contains a 'Browser report card" detailing what the support in various browsers/versions is for each of the css items detailed in that chapter.
Where a workaround is needed for crap like the IE browser (version 5 box bug) or NN4 problems it also goes into detail about the workaround for the bug.
And, the best thing, it stresses using valid code!
Cheers!this book is the best one i have seen on CSS.
it shows you how to change a page from HTML to CSS and then how to do things like style forms, and the things you would need on a site not stuff you will never use.
my boss makes me read this when there is no work to do my site at work and it is very good.
you can Download files from his site and stuff to help.
*****
i learned all my CSS though on the Net and with dreamweaver so you could do that but i wish i had this book when i started learning CSS.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/073571245X/qid=1067726993/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-8470723-1962559?v=glance&n=507846That's">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 7846That's</a><!-- m --> a great one Chris... I bought it after I finished the 24 hour one. Eric Meyer rocks!good
Has anyone used the book HTML Utopia by Dan Shafer.Originally posted by gregmatic
Has anyone used the book HTML Utopia by Dan Shafer. Peronsally, I haven't, but maybe you could check out the user reviews over at Amazon (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0957921829/qid=1067869947/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-8208951-3215105?v=glance&n=507846">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... e&n=507846</a><!-- m -->)?I read the sample chapters about a year ago before the HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS book was published and most people seemed to like it and what I read seemed reasonable if you know the basics of CSS and want to progress onto CSS-P.I think the biggest complaint about the book is that it doesn't show enough of using a table based layout, and then converting that to a CSS-P layout which the book title implies.
I am currently getting rid of all of the tables I used to layout my pages
(the book I read suggested using tables for layout) before I realized the drawbacks of tables, and the power of CSS.Introductory tutorials: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp">http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp</a><!-- m -->Definitive reference: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/Thanks">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/Thanks</a><!-- m --> for the links. That should keep me busy for a while.For books...
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css1/">http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css1/</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/">http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/">http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/</a><!-- m -->
Granted getting all three books means getting beaten over the head with repeated concepts, but at least checking out one of them would be good. You should be able to see samples for each of the books.If you are new, I can't speak highly enough about SAMS teach yourself CSS in 24 hours.
It has a great breakdown of the code, and the end of each chapter contains a 'Browser report card" detailing what the support in various browsers/versions is for each of the css items detailed in that chapter.
Where a workaround is needed for crap like the IE browser (version 5 box bug) or NN4 problems it also goes into detail about the workaround for the bug.
And, the best thing, it stresses using valid code!
Cheers!this book is the best one i have seen on CSS.
it shows you how to change a page from HTML to CSS and then how to do things like style forms, and the things you would need on a site not stuff you will never use.
my boss makes me read this when there is no work to do my site at work and it is very good.
you can Download files from his site and stuff to help.
*****
i learned all my CSS though on the Net and with dreamweaver so you could do that but i wish i had this book when i started learning CSS.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/073571245X/qid=1067726993/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-8470723-1962559?v=glance&n=507846That's">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 7846That's</a><!-- m --> a great one Chris... I bought it after I finished the 24 hour one. Eric Meyer rocks!good
Has anyone used the book HTML Utopia by Dan Shafer.Originally posted by gregmatic Has anyone used the book HTML Utopia by Dan Shafer. Peronsally, I haven't, but maybe you could check out the user reviews over at Amazon (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0957921829/qid=1067869947/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-8208951-3215105?v=glance&n=507846">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... e&n=507846</a><!-- m -->)?I read the sample chapters about a year ago before the HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS book was published and most people seemed to like it and what I read seemed reasonable if you know the basics of CSS and want to progress onto CSS-P.I think the biggest complaint about the book is that it doesn't show enough of using a table based layout, and then converting that to a CSS-P layout which the book title implies.