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
- Get the 2nd Edition
- I reviewed the first edition of this book and found it terrible: the author (Dan Shafer) didn't bother providing a tutorial and his writing style was hard to endure.
Now here's the second edition, written by Rachel Andrews, a much better writer and someone who clearly knows the purpose of this book. She fixed most of Shafer's blunders, and her clear writing style makes the material much more accessible.
Dan Shafer is still given credit as a co-author, but since he hasn't been asked to write any more books for Sitepoint, I think it's a credit in name only and we can give all the real credit to Andrews, whose other Sitepoint books are equally good.
Had Sitepoint completely purged the book of Shafer's contributions and let Andrews write it over again from scratch, I'd give the book 5 stars. As it is, there's enough legacy material from the first edition to keep the rating down to 4 stars.
Bob McLain - 2006-06-25, 8 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Get the Second Edition!
- Be careful - there are two editions of this book available on Amazon, but they are (it seems) quite different. I've not read the first edition, but the second edition has a second author who has condensed some sections, updated others, and added what seemed to be missing in the first - a practical, multi-chapter tutorial walking you through using all that you've learned. Make sure you are ordering the second edition; it has "Rachel Andrew" listed as the author. As an absolute beginner in CSS, I've found this to be a *very* helpful book.
- 2006-05-07, 9 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- very good css book
- this is a very good css book that, without being dull, provides you with a solid css foundation. It also has a useful appendix with many of the most common css properties. I would also suggest the book css anthology which is also written by rachel andrew.
- 2006-04-21, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
