HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition is for web developers looking to create websites using Cascading Style Sheets for layout, which allow for faster page downloads, easier maintenance, faster website redesigns, and better search engine optimization. HTML Utopia covers all aspects of using Cascading Style Sheets in Web Development, and is a must-read for Web Developers designing new sites or upgrading existing ones to use… Product details and pricing info |
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28 Customer Reviews Posted
- Robin
- This book has been a great help in designing better page layout for our corporate web applications. It does a very good job of explaining how everything works together.
- 2007-01-09, 0 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good book, excellent reading
- Very thorough and useful approach to life without tables. Highly recommended reading
- 2007-01-06, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excellent book for programmers
- I am a programmer and for so long had never really been concerned with valid markup and accessible sites...until I started getting clients that needed websites and I began to understand the importance and the effect valid markup can have on your site.
This book was extremely easy to follow with great examples. My typical style when trying to learn from a book consists of me going straight for the examples rather than trying to understand the "why" involved. With this book, I was able to sit down and read it and really "get" what they were saying! - 2006-12-05, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Useful walkthru development by example approach
- I found this book useful and recommend it. I did find some of the training approach a bit perculiar, though. Chapters 1 thru 7 focus on some of the fundamental elements of CSS (syntax, text effects). Starting with Chapter 8, what one has learned is used as the books goes thru a project of laying out an elegant two column layout. As the project gets progressively more complicated, concepts such as the box model and the types of positioning are covered. I would of course had preferred to have some of the illustrations in color, but having only black and white was ok and I don't recall any typos in the code as is too often the case for these types of books. As I was working thru the project, I was discovering that some things didn't work but then discovered this was just part of the project and the author(s) had a solution a couple of pages further in. So, I was happy with the level of completeness that the author(s) brought to this book.
- 2006-12-03, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great for beginner to intermediate
- I would recommend downloading the sample from the website to get a good idea of if the book's style works for you. Overall, the book provides a top notch introduction to CSS as well as good design and application tips. The emphasis on seperation of style and content is truly appreciated. I would strongly recommend this book to learn to properly build basic sites, and to build a foundation to build more advanced development skills on top of.
- 2006-10-18, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
