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July 3, 2006 0672329069 978-0672329067 2
You know you should use cascading style sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS? Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. You'll cover standards compliant CSS, with an emphasis on providing both a theoretical understanding and practical experience at implementing CSS.
 
In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to your own site. The tutorials have been updated for this second edition to cover browsers that have become more widely used since the release of the first edition. It also has been updated to cover styling of forms, troubleshooting CSS, and other important new developments.

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Learning to apply CSS is the HTML Web publisher's next developmental step toward a professional and stable Web design. A prerequisite to learning higherlevel languages like Javascript, Java, and Flash, CSS is gaining increasing support among major browsers, including Netscape, Internet Explorer (together 94% market share) and newcomers Opera, Mozilla and NeoPlanet, and backwardscompatibility with older browser versions and specialized browsers.

The key to successful CSS implementation is in understanding how different browsers use and interpret CSS. This tutorial takes the unique position of teaching the reader how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. In 24 straightforward, hourly lessons, the reader learns by accomplishing handson tasks that can be applied to his own site in every hour. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Kynn Bartlett has taught thousands the basic principles of good Web design through online courses and his participation in W3C technical working groups, the HTML Writers Guild, and the Web Standards Project education FAQ. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and provides consulting for businesses and government agencies. Kynn is the author of the first edition of this book.

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  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 2 edition (July 3, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672329069
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672329067
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #857,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is one of the essential skills needed for web development. The greater degree of control that they give you over the appearance of your pages is well worth any and all effort it takes to learn how to use them. Fortunately, with this book in your hand that effort will be minimal.
I have taught CSS several times in a community education setting, but not for over a year. In an attempt to refresh my skills, I examined this book and went through a few of the more detailed examples. They all worked well and I learned several features of CSS that will be used in future classes. I also now recommend this book to students who ask for help in choosing a book to continue their study of CSS.
There is one obvious drawback to the book and that is the lack of color. One of the main advantages of using CSS is the excellent control it gives you over the use of colors. While the author makes an honest attempt to fill in the details with text, it simply is not enough to give you the full experience of how the colors will appear.
The coverage is thorough and the author also spends a great deal of time explaining the differing support of CSS in the major browsers. This is done via a series of charts called browser report cards and really helps to clarify what will appear, as the support for CSS among the browsers is somewhat arbitrary. In my teaching of CSS, my examples demonstrate many features, not all of which are supported. Students find this confusing and any information about the relative support is very helpful.
This is a sound book that will either get you up to speed or refresh your knowledge of CSS in a very short time. Maybe not quite in 24 hours, but close enough so that the difference is not significant.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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To quickly introduce myself: I have been working with the web very nearly since its inception, including recently teaching a course on design using HTML and CSS.

That said, reading this book was of great use to me; I learned things I had never discovered before (some of which, happily, are currently supported by multiple popular browsers), and the guides to browser incompatibility are so useful as to deserve reprinting as a quick cheatsheet to use during the design process. The organization of material is sensible, and while the "hours" aren't really consistent as to how long the material took me to absorb, that should vary by person, so is to be expected.

A word about printing errors: there are a few unfortunate ones in the first printing of this book. Each are thoroughly documented in errata on the website the author has provided as a personal courtesy, as well as the various example files and a few more goodies. (The reviewer that decided that he should stop after encountering a printing error and give the book one star, then say "the book may be worth the money" since he hadn't read much of it...well.)

In conclusion, the author knows the subject thoroughly and communicated it clearly and entertainingly; his obvious concern for how much the reader gets from his book is commendable and is the basis for what an excellent resource the book is. To borrow a cliche, no web designer should be without this one.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This book is an excellent introduction to Cascading Style Sheets, presented in a style that is approachable and conversational, yet doesn't gloss over the details.

The most valuable part of the book, though, is the no-punches-pulled assessment of how CSS elements are, or are not, supported in the real-world browsers, some of which are badly broken. If the publishers of today's web browsers would read this book and fix their implementations, the web would be a better place! Until then, we have to thank Kynn Bartlett for showing us how to do our best to work around the bugs.

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Can file the file for the book at cssin24hours.com
Where are the files for the book. There are several references in the book to different links but none of them lead to the associated files.
Published 17 months ago by F. Abdul-Mailk
CSS Fail
I'm "glad" I checked this out of the library rather than buy it first.

I believe the fact this book is the confusing mess that other folks have commented on in their... Read more
Published on July 22, 2009 by Michael J. Cuneo
Solid, But Not Great
I already knew CSS and was looking for something a little more in-depth. To its credit the book starts at an intro level but was thorough enough for me to gain a more critical... Read more
Published on May 28, 2008 by Erik H. Reppen
Intro book on learnng CSS
It is an excellent book on learning Cascading Style Sheets for a web design class that I am taking. It was delivered on time and I liked that fact that I could track the progress... Read more
Published on March 28, 2008 by Maria A. Reteguiz
More talk then scripting
You open the book, start reading paragraphs, write a snippet of code, read another paragraph, write a block of code (that doesn't pertain to the snippet of code you just wrote) and... Read more
Published on November 2, 2007 by A. Craig
No pictures
I took this book from the library with two other CSS books. This one has absolutely no pictures, I further browsed through the book looking for hidden gems. Read more
Published on October 23, 2007 by coffee_fan
I thought I was a moron, then I realized the book sucks
Having read TY HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, I have a good grasp on XHTML, and thought I had a decent grasp on CSS, but needed to learn more. Read more
Published on August 23, 2007 by Lisa Hopkins
Great book for BEGINNERS, a little bit of HTML-knowledge helps...
Before picking up this book, I would've described myself as someone who was:

- not familiar at all with CSS, totally clueless

- a little bit familiar with... Read more
Published on April 13, 2007 by Jan Capulong
Unsupported Materials
This is the last SAMS book I'll buy. There are many reasons to avoid this book - some of the top issues:

- The website with examples is not available

- The... Read more
Published on October 2, 2005 by Tulse Luper
Regret Having Bought the Book
I like to try out the examples myself. I have made numerous attempts to acces the book's website. I get a message from my browser that the wesbsite cannot be found. Read more
Published on October 2, 2005 by S. Kessler
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