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Cascading Sheets For Dummies

by Damon Dean (Author)

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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.

ISBN-10

0764508717
ISBN-13

978-0764508714
Publisher

For Dummies
Publication date

August 29, 2001
Language

English
Dimensions

7.56 x 0.76 x 9.22 inches
Print length

325 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies (August 29, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764508717
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764508714
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.56 x 0.76 x 9.22 inches

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No Fries Tonight

Another boring tech manual. For dummies even.

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2017

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This book, inconcept, was great but it put me to sleep.

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Simon Jessey

Not the best I've seen

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2002

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.

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J. Spitzig

Title Should Say "By Dummies"!

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2007

This is absolutely the worst book I have ever attempted to read. I agree with the other reviewers' remarks concerning the author's cutesy feeble attempts at humor. More irritating, however, is his failure to describe adequately the topics on which he touches, and the organization of the book is poor. He tells you part of something in one chapter, and maybe another part of it in another chapter - or not at all. When you apply the instructions he provides, the result often doesn't work, and there is nothing in the book to help you figure out why.

Most of the section headings are extremely stupid puns. Now, I have nothing against puns, mind you, but there is an enormous difference between a smart pun and a stupid one. Damon Dean must not be able to get the smart ones. Yet from a navigational standpoint, using puns in headings is really stupid. The headings are what a reader relies on to locate a topic. Any competent writer knows that. When puns are used in the headings, the reader is at a real loss about the subsumed topic, which completely defeats the purpose of the headings in the first place.

The old adage "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B. S." no doubt applies here. Generally when a speaker or writer succeeds only in confusing the audience, it's because he doesn't know what he's talking about. I would venture to say that that is the case with Damon Dean.

If this were the only book a person had for learning how to use cascading style sheets, he would give up on the subject altogether before he got halfway through. I, for one, will never waste my money on a "For Dummies" book again!

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Wow - amazing this ever got published!

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2003

The author mingles in many personal remarks which clutters the content substantially, making for a difficult, annoying read. After finding another introductory & intermediate CSS book, & then comparing the two, I can honestly say CSS For Dummies is not organized well, has examples which do not contain vital information or a variety of applications. Based on other books I've owned & read, this book is a poor choice when learning CSS.
Worst of all, there was at least one sample file on the included CD where illegal [chemical] use was cited in the text (see Ch8_fixed.html on the CD - the author writes about "being pissed", and taking [a chemical]). Examples as this clearly make the book an undesirable selection - especially for youth trying to learn CSS. There are simply no reasons for either using offensive language or blatant references to illegal [chemical] use in a book like this.
I'll never buy another "Dummies" book again.

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John

too many mistakes

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2002

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.

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