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Re: What is the best CSS book?

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The Zen of CSS Design for me. It takes submissions to the CSS Zen garden and uses them as examples of what techniques you can use for layout, typography, images, etc It suits my learning style of visual diagrams and reverse-engineering things to see how they work. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0321303474?ie=UTF8&ta...

Heh, never even knew there was a book for http://www.csszengarden.com/ (or was it that the garden was for css zen), still I probably got the most from doing little zengarden mock-ups; ya know sort of like a time-trial. . .[ramble]. . .Coming to back to the web to the without tables was probably my biggest hurdle, but doing enough stuff in the spirit of zengarden really helped out. These day though I find myself having a harder time getting inspired to start something fresh in Photoshop than anything in my text-editor. Once you stop thinking and developing in terms of a graphics editor you will start seeing and thinking in terms like this, how do I want my user to interact with this document?

I honestly couldn't really recommend a book though, CSS doesn't necessarily require a text to understand how to format a hyper-text document, other than that, I don't think there isn't much else I could recommend besides just dive into an xhtml document and start formatting your view according to something that catches your eye on the web.

Cheers

Re: What is the best CSS book?

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post #19

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design (Rough Cuts) Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS (Just released) Trascending CSS (Released) Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library: Develop your next generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library (Released, for yui and some javascript) I want them but don't have money. Have a look at OOCSS: http://wiki.github.com/…

All but one of those (the yui one) is available on Oreilly's Safari bookshelf. ~$40/month is nothing to scoff at but if you're in an intense learning period, I find that it is a no brainer (you don't need to agree to more than a month).

Re: What is the best CSS book?

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Eric myer on CSS

I think you mean Eric Meyer and the book Cascading Style Sheets, The Definitive Guide ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/books/css-tdg/ ). I really like this book and highly recommmend it. It hasn't converted me into a CSS fanatic, but it has helped me learn the tech and write better CSS when needed.

No, I believe there is also an "Eric Meyer on CSS". Not that the Definitive Guide isn't also a very good book.

Re: What is the best CSS book?

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post #4

CSS Mastery for me is THE book on CSS. Although its old because at the time the book was written, IE7 was not officially in the market yet. It contains a lot of step-by-step solutions for common real-world css problems, along with browser gotchas and hacks when necessary. Particularly useful if you plan to support IE6 for pixel-perfect layouts.

The 2nd edition of this (wonderful) book is due out in August.

http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430223979

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