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1. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
martincou Mar 18, 2010 5:44 PM (in response to Mike_Watt)Hi,
You could try CSS Mastery - Advanced Web Standards Solutions. I have it and I learned very good tips and tricks on CSS.
If you want to improve your CSS skills, this book is for you !
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Martin
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2. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
Nancy O. Mar 18, 2010 6:36 PM (in response to Mike_Watt)IMO the web changes too fast to rely on printed books. By the time a book gets written, edited, published and marketed, you could be 2 years behind what is currently accepted. I feel you will be better informed if you bookmark web sites that stay on top of current trends in CSS and other web relevant stuff.
CSS3 Info
SitePoint
A List Apart
Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
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3. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
David_Powers Mar 19, 2010 8:43 AM (in response to Mike_Watt)I'm biased, because I wrote it, but my Getting StartED with CSS covers everything in CSS2.1. It was written after the release of IE8, so it's completely up to date. However, it doesn't cover CSS3, apart from a handful of new selectors that are widely supported by current browsers. As Nancy says, the situation is too fluid to cover that sort of thing in a printed book. But getting a really solid handle on what is supported by all current browsers should put anyone in a good position to learn the new things from the occasional online article.
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4. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
M.R.Biesheuvel Mar 19, 2010 10:43 AM (in response to Mike_Watt)Well I like
CSS Mastery Advanced Web stabdard solutions (as already been mentionted)
ISBN 1-59059-614-5
CSS The definitve guide
ISBN 978-0-596-52733-4
M.R.Biesheuvel
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5. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
Dreamer101.1 Mar 19, 2010 2:21 PM (in response to M.R.Biesheuvel)Hi,
Dreamweaver 8 "THE MISSING MANUAL" by David Sayer McFarland-- POGUE PRESS O"REILLY
Dreamweaver 8 for Dummies by Janine Warner.
Get both, because for Dummies give you a few more practice examples and the manual explaines the modules.
You will learn the difference between Layers and Div Tags. Parent and Child Layers and how each is handles by a brower when you practice with each, after you enlarge the font size.
dreamer
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6. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
izycrzy Mar 19, 2010 3:04 PM (in response to Mike_Watt)Well its not a book but I just finished "CSS with Dreamweaver CS4" video tutorial series on Lynda.com. It was great. These are videos which you folllow along with - 10 hours worth. I learned a lot. Really opened my eyes to a lot of features in DW that I had not been using which help write and edit CSS. Lynda.com has quite a few other series on CSS as well.
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7. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
Mike_Watt Mar 19, 2010 6:24 PM (in response to David_Powers)Wow, a lot of helpful responses... thank you everyone. I think I'm going to get both David Powers book and CSS MASTERY that has been mentioned a couple of times... They both seem helpful, and I know that David knows his stuff, as he helps me constantly on this forum!
Thanks again for all the suggestions, everyone.
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8. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
370H55V Mar 19, 2010 8:05 PM (in response to Mike_Watt)Lynda.com is really good about keeping up with the very latest in software releases, and industry standards improvements.
I've turned to them since CS2. Learned about a hundred different things I never would have suspected I could do in Photoshop, Fireworks, and Flash, as well as how to move from tables to CSS in DW.
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9. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
Mike_Watt Mar 20, 2010 3:01 AM (in response to 370H55V)Well that's basically my goal... to get off tables. I just learned very recently that I could add CSS to just about any HTML tag with the STYLE attribute... CSS is really amazing.
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10. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
David_Powers Mar 20, 2010 5:09 PM (in response to Mike_Watt)Mike_Watt wrote:
I just learned very recently that I could add CSS to just about any HTML tag with the STYLE attribute... CSS is really amazing.
CSS is amazing, but using the style attribute is just as bad as using old-style font tags. The style attribute should be used rarely, if ever. Learn to use the CSS cascade properly. Otherwise, you're building up huge problems for the future.
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11. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
Mike_Watt Mar 20, 2010 5:27 PM (in response to David_Powers)All the more reason to get the book sooner than later, I suppose.
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12. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
Nancy O. Mar 20, 2010 6:17 PM (in response to Mike_Watt)CSS is amazing, but I'm in total agreement with David on this. The Style thing can create some of the most horrific code imaginable. In earlier versions, DW used basic naming conventions for every CSS rule applied to a document which often resulted in a ridiculous number of CSS Styles.
Style1 { }
Style2 { } .....
Style12057 { }
Get into the habit of using LOGICAL HTML TAGS for most of your CSS hooks. Nothing is easier to recognize than an HTML selector in CSS code.
h1, h2, h3... p, table, tr, td, form, ul, ol, li, form, input... menu, header, article, footer, copyright...
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/logical.html
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/
Use meaningful #divisionIDs and .class-names so anyone, including yourself, can go back later and know what this rule was used for.
#mainContent has much greater meaning than #Style673.
#LeftSideBar is more descriptive than #column1.
.important is a better class name for eyecatching text than .red because red is a color choice you may decide to change.
I also highly recommend CSS comments.
/**this is a CSS comment to remind me why I needed this rule in 2007**/
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13. Re: Recommendations for good CSS book?
eliteflyers_com Mar 21, 2010 2:09 AM (in response to Mike_Watt)Lynda.com is really good about keeping up with the very latest in software releases, and industry standards improvements.




