Web Programming
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (Solutions)
Format: Paperback
Author: Andy Budd
ReleaseDate: 13 February, 2006
Publisher: friends of ED
Rating:
Great book - Especially if you have worked with CSS but are not sure if you're doing things right. 
I read Molly E. I have worked with CSS about 2 years. Hlzschlag's Cascading Style Sheets - The Desigers' Edge as my first learning book. That book gave me basic knoledge of CSS but that wasn't enough. Many times I copied and tweaked other people's code from blogs but I didn't always understand what I was doing. There were missing parts in my CSS understanding. This book CSS Mastery provided me those missing parts. Andy Budd knows what many developers are missing. If you're a very begginer, you might find parts you don't understand in this book. But as you build your skills, you'll learn more and more from this book. This book is indeed a "must have" and a good reference book as well.
great for advanced css users
A very comprehensive guide for more advanced css users. This book was exactly what I was hoping for. The examples are very usable and well explained, all the examples delve into what works in what browsers and the filters hacks and work arounds to make it look decent regardless of the browser issues. Very enjoyable read.
Great Book
This covers more advanced topics like hack management and teaches frontend developers to work around known browser bugs. Great book. Andy Budd does a great job explaining the "hasLayout" issues and proposes workable solutions. One thing of interest was the remote rollovers that use CSS - the CSS version of image maps.
He also does a great job keeping "code" consilidation as an ongoing, underlying premise throughout the book. He uses a few examples of combining classes, which help keep the (X)HTML and CSS bloat factor down to a minimum.
The idea of fluid or liquid layouts is taken one step further than other books on CSS. He focuses on making all elements within the site fluid, not just the text and parent containers. With the methods taught in this book, your images will also respond to the size of the browser window. Nice touch.
He discusses advanced topics in a manner that are easily digestable. We saw a British Invasion in the 60's with the Beatles. It looks like we may have another British invasion now - in the world of web design and web standards. He is one of many outstanding developers/authors from England who are rising up in the web arena. .
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