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CSS: The Missing Manual | 
 enlarge | Author: David Mcfarland
Publisher: Pogue Press
Category: Book
List Price: £26.99
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1323
Media: Paperback
Pages: 494
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0596526873
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780596526870
ASIN: 0596526873
Publication Date: August 24, 2006
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Top book February 27, 2007
C. Smith (UK)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I read this after having some experience of CSS, mostly picked-up 'on the job' as needed. This book gave me a good insight into why CSS based sites are a good idea. There are loads of internet links as you read so I found I needed a laptop available. I also found the tutorials good; not too lengthy and just enough assumed knowledge. Highly recommended.
The best introduction to CSS November 4, 2006
magicsteven1 (UK)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
You will still want to consult Cederholm (Web Standard Solutions and Bulletproof Web Design) and Andrew (The CSS Anthology) but this is simply the best introduction to CSS available. It explains the concepts involved clearly and in a logically structured manner. Cederholm's and Andrew's books are more for dipping into when you have a specific problem. McFarland teaches you CSS from the ground up.
That is not to say that this is a book simply for novices. Although I count myself as a pretty raw recruit it seems to me there is much for anyone interested in CSS in this book.
It certainly pays to have this book by your side when trying to learn from the stylesheets [...]
A rare gem! A clearly written and interesting text book. April 23, 2007
D. Toyne (Liverpool, UK)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I work in IT and have read dozens and dozens of technical books on various topics over the years. With all that experience this is one of the best written and easily understood technical texts I've read.
I needed to learn CSS quickly and in reasonable depth. This is most definately the book for this. Within a day of finishing this book I was working on my own website and within two weeks I had a great looking, easy to maintain website working in every browser and even in mobile phones!
Can't rate this book highly enough it taught me exactly what I needed fast and with minimal effort. It also has given me an enthusiasm for the subject and a solid foundation to develope on. Top Marks.
Without doubt the best coding book in the world ... ever!! November 21, 2007
Mr. R. G. Grinnell (Solihull, West Midlands)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have read countless coding books, from HTML to JAVA, all of which claim to be the book you need, the one must have. To date none have stood up to that claim. Without exception I have finished the book and looked back wondering just how much I have taken in and learnt - if I'm lucky 20%. That is till now.
CSS - The Missing Manual is, in my opinion, a great book from all aspects. It's enjoyable to read, the tutorials work, the subject is explained in all it's glory, warts an' all, and I'd read it again (sadly just because I enjoyed it so much). It covers so much and actively demonstrates the shortcomings of CSS and browser compatibility - and then gives you the simple fixes to the problems. How refreshing (pardon the pun).
It also gives you a wealth of other excellent reference points (mainly web sites) to build upon the book content further.
Thank you David Sawyer McFarland for this quite brilliant book.
The missing manual? It's not kidding July 25, 2007
M. J. Parsons (Wiltshire)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I thought it was time to brush up and improve my css and try to crack page layout and other problems which I have never understood. Boy am I glad I found this book. I read the first half and although I didn't do the tutorials - as I knew most of it - it filled in so many gaps and made things I thought I understood so much clearer. Going beyond the basics at each page I found myself saying 'oh thats how its done' and so on. Here are some reasons I liked it:
- Good style, not too chatty kept to the point, I hate technical books that waffle on and on.
- Clear explainations, not afraid to get technical, sometimes suggesting the reader may want to skip the techy bits and come back later.
- Very good tutorials.
- Not afraid to refer readers to all sorts of supporting websites.
- Dealt very well with IE issues (and there are loads of them). I highlighted the IE problems - there is a lot of yellow in my copy! But I understand all the hacks now.
The only fault I could find is the section on formatting forms - it would have been useful to have a short section on where to go to find out about how to submit forms - but hey, that's a minor point.
I wish all technical books were written like this - it remined me of the PC Maintenance and Upgrade Bible I bought years ago - what a book - All the other books in the 'Bible' series were a constant let-down, I will be very interested to try some other 'Missing manual' books and see if it can keep up this extremely high standard.
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