Cascading Style Sheets for Dummies [Paperback]

Damon A. Dean (Author), Ryan Clifford (Author), Bethel Simone Kusz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764508717 | ISBN-13: 978-0764508714 | Publication Date: August 15, 2001

Cascading Style Sheets For Dummies covers the essentials you need to know to incorporate CSS technology into Web projects. This friendly guide covers the enhanced features of the technology that allows you to have total control over the look and feel of your Web projects.

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The fun and easy way(TM) to make your Web pages look great!

Style sheet editors on CD-ROM

Get the scoop on positioning, inheritance, and other CSS tools

Take control of Web page design elements
Cascading Style Sheets let you turn a drab, boring Web page into an eye-catching design masterwork. But how do you get the hang of all those style sheet rules and tags? Relax! With Web design expert Damon Dean at your side, you'll be trying out cool fonts, working with layers, specifying page positions, and more--in no time!

Discover how to:
* Build a style sheet in five minutes
* Work with colors, fonts, and borders
* Position design elements precisely
* Harness inheritance and multiple style sheets
* Tackle tables, XML, and audio
All this on the bonus CD-ROM
Style sheet editors, including:
* Style Master Pro trial version
* TopStyle Pro evaluation version
* Author's sample from book
* System Requirements: PC running Windows 95 or later, Windows NT4 or later; Power Macintosh running System 7.6 or later; See the About the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

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Damon Dean is the solutions department director at an Internet design firm in San Francisco. He is also the author of FrontPage 2000 For Dummies Quick Reference.

About the Author

Damon Dean is the author of Web Channel Development For Dummies(r), also published by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., as well as The Pocket Tour of Multimedia on the Internet, published by Sybex. The author of nearly 100 articles on computers and gaming, Dean also claims to know a thing or two about the Internet. After spending six delirious years in the multimedia and computer games industry, he now spends his time "Working the Web'" for 415 Productions. As is required of all UCLA graduates, Dean is currently finishing up his first black-and-white movie short in his spare time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 325 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764508717
• ISBN-13: 978-0764508714
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,530,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars too many mistakes, November 13, 2002

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John (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cascading Style Sheets for Dummies (Paperback)

Full of errors and mistakes -- not only this, but the author is impossible to follow. Had to buy another book on the topic. Stay away.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best I've seen, April 21, 2002

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Simon Jessey "nutellaconsumer" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cascading Style Sheets for Dummies (Paperback)

This book is for people with a reasonable knowledge of HTML 4 who want to learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets Level 1. Damon Dean wrote "FrontPage 2000 For Dummies: Quick Reference" which was a very useful guide indeed, but this book falls short of that, both in terms of layout and content.

Finding things is hard - as a reference it is pretty hopeless. The tutorials work but they seem to jump around too much. There is a section on how well CSS works with XML, but the author writes his code in CAPITAL letters, which is a no-no in XML. XML and XHTML are case sensitive and must be written in lowercase.

You get a basic grounding in CSS with this book, but I suspect it teaches you some bad habits in the process. For someone who just wishes to add a little bit of style to an otherwise boring website - this will probably suffice.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Who edited this book?, November 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cascading Style Sheets for Dummies (Paperback)

The writing in this book is muddy, and like another reviewer here, I had to buy a second book to figure out what this book was saying. Since Dummies books are for beginners, a logical order running from easy to difficult should be used. This author is all over the place.

The above is bad enough, then add to this the obvious fact that the book was merely spell-checked but never looked at by an editor (or at least by one who knows grammar and syntax).

The code isn't consistent, and the index has errors.

Don't buy this book. It was obviously pushed out the publisher's door without any attempt to make sure customers get their money's worth. Don't you get ripped off too.