The Ultimate CSS Reference
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend A complete and thorough and up-to-date reference guide for CSS. Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more - all presented in a beautiful, full color layout that will have you coming back… Product details and pricing info |
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10 Customer Reviews Posted
- Excellent Reference
- Every part of CSS is covered. The browser support and compatibility is given for every property. The layout is extremely well thought out and makes finding information incredibly easy. And to top it all off, Sitepoint makes the book available on-line as well, for free. It is fully searchable. This is just a great tool for anyone working on site design.
As others have mentioned, if one is looking for lots of tutorials or help in learning how to do CSS, they may want to supplement this with something else. This is mostly just reference with brief introductory information. But that is what makes it great. A person who already knows what they are doing does not have to wade through a bunch of explanation and teaching. This is just the facts.
I highly recommend this to any serious web developer or designer. - 2008-08-01, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A very EXCELLENT reference book on CSS
- I'm not familiar with Mr. O'Brien's work, but I've been a fan of Mr. Olssen's blog and website for about a year. I dare to say that he is the most articulate writer on the subject of CSS that I have experienced so far. His explanation, on his blog archives, of CSS positioning and page layout is one of the best, and most succinct, on the subject that I have found.
So, when I saw the pre-announcement of this book I immediately ordered a copy. Since recieving and using the book I am not dissappointed. The book is a thorough "reference" treatment of all aspects of CSS. I keep it close by while working on websites (along with a copy of "The Ultimate HTML Reference"). - 2008-07-20, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- The Ultimate CSS Reference
- 'The Ultimate CSS Reference' is exactly as the title says. A comprehensive REFERENCE for CSS styling. This book is not (NOT) a learning book or an example full book, rather a reference to using CSS. If you use CSS on a daily basis and need such a tool this is a good resource to have. My only gripe is that I don't know why the publishers decided to put this out as a hardcover. The costs could have been kept down and likely more sales would have been made if this had been released as a softcover like most of the other sitepoint books.
sitepoint has long been my favorite web publisher of books and nothing has changed with this release. A solid release albeit a different one from what has been released in the past.
***** RECOMMENDED - 2008-06-18, 6 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- It is what it is...
- A reference guide. Sure there are some great tips and explanations regarding CSS, but all in all, it's just a reference guide. All be it very comprehensive. It has references to CSS selectors that are not even available in CSS 2.1 yet, actually for CSS 3, but that hasn't been accepted by the W3C at the time of the book's writing.
I have become a big fan of the Sitepoint books. I own, "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design" and "The CSS Anthology". There are other books by Sitepoint that I will be buying.
This reference does help, if you forget what certain selectors are used for, or if you need a selector to help with your development.
I wish it did provide more insight into tips on how to use the selectors with examples. Which there aren't many of them. But, I guess that's what the other books are for.
Think of this as a dictionary for CSS. - 2008-06-03, 5 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- great for what it is
- If you want a comprehensive, well written and thorough CSS reference, this is the ultimate. Really well done explanations. I tis agreat book to have if you wrestle with the ins and outs of CSS
- 2008-06-01, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
