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Illustrates the range and potential of Web sites afforded by CSS-based Web design, from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects, with a look at layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes. Original. (Intermediate)

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Molly E. Holzschlag teaches Webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, the University of Phoenix, and Pima Community College.

Dave Shea is the creator and cultivator of the highly influential CSS Zen Garden Web site (www.csszengarden.com). As well as being a member of the Web Standards Project, Dave is the owner and director of Bright Creative, and he writes about all things Web for his daily weblog, mezzoblue.com. With over 6 years of experience working on the Web, Dave is a leader of the new generation of Web designers that believe in responsible Web design.

An author, instructor, and Web designer, Molly E. Holzschlag has written over 27 books related to Web design and development. She's been coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. There is little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, Molly is one of the most fun and vibrant Web characters around. As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. For more about Molly, check out www.molly.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachpit Pr; 1ST edition (January 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780321303479
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321303479
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.79 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Tony Olsson

Very good book. Thanks alot.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2022

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I have read the site from i begin with Webdevelopment and
The One And Only places for inpiration about CSS..
Thanks for this book.

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Gordon

Well laid out book...a REAL design / CSS Resource

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2005

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I have always admired Dave Shea's CSS work and the Zen Garden site but this book truly delivers. Beyond the incredible examples of CSS work by so many talented people, Dave and Molly have assembled a resource book for a wide audience. The layout of the book in terms of chapters, examples etc is outstanding. The examples of CSS code are short and to the point with easy to understand explanations. Prior to buying the book, I thought it might focus solely on the technical side of CSS. This isn't the case as one gets to read about why some of these designs/layouts work. This is one of those books that you read for 2 hrs, come back the next day and read again and again. It's not a 2 hr read and then sits on a shelf for the next year. My copy will get well used. Lastly, after designing commercial websites for over 15 years, and 2 years of accessible, web standards design, I can honestly say this book is in my top 3 books that I own and USE. Nice job Dave and Molly, I HIGHLY recommend this book to designers, css junkies. A MUST READ!

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Craig Cecil

Good book that could have been great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2005

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Since I'm a frequent visitor to the excellent CSS Zen Garden web site, I purchased this book hoping that it would enlighten me regarding the technical implementation of some of the more advanced CSS designs. Unfortunately, I think the book just misses the mark. What you get is a brief six page explanation of a particular design concept for each of the 36 included designs. This is all good, but I was hoping to see at least a few of the very advanced designs completely dissected in explanation, from beginning of the source to the end. Intermediate CSS coders will undoubtedly pick up a useful technique or two. Still, it's a good book that could have been great.

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Mary Shaw

A worthwhile read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2005

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This is much more than an ordinary book. I hate reading programming or web books, yet I loved this book.

I am a web developer with a programming background, more interested in usability than looks. I had traditionally used CSS for fonts and that's all. Recently I started exploring the true power of CSS and becoming more interested in color and imagery.

Then I stumbled on the CSS Zen Garden book and web site. Together, they opened my eyes to web design as an art. It taught me principles of light, color, fonts, and layout with CSS. It helped me realize that I can have awesome web sites! I have gone on to learn Photoshop and explore my own eye for good design. Armed with new knowledge, I look forward to working on my own design for the Zen Garden.

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Kathy

Good but not great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2005

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[...] I already knew this would be a design book and not a CSS guide.

The problem is that both the book and the site are misleading. These are essentially home pages by graphic designers. However as a practical matter, none of these designs would work site-wide - rather the point of a style sheet, after all. There's simply not enough screen 'real estate' to accommodate content in subsequent pages. In addition, the designs are such that tooling them to 'brand' across sub-pages sitewide would be very difficult, and the book provides no examples, guidelines, or suggestions for doing so.

For inspiration, to see what you can do with color and layout, and for finding your own unique vision, this book may be useful. For designing sites of more than one page, however, this book falls short.

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Dave Butte

Excellent book for designers and artists

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2005

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I bought this book (knowing it wasn't a how-to) on CSS, but hoping to gather something about coding from it. I realized, after just a couple chapters, that I've learned more about coding by simply studying the code of the csses(?) in the book.

More importantly, I've become a better designer and artist because of this book. I've been a web designer/developer for about eight years and a graphic artist for about five. I thought I was alright, but this book taught me more than everything I've gleened in the past several years.

Because of this (and, despite the fact that it's not what I thought when I purchased it), I give it five stars. Highly recommended!

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Jesse Liberty

A truly beautiful book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2006

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This extraordinary, beautiful and amazing book explains, in detail, the designs illustrated on the Zen Garden web site. This is a book to read, to savor and to come back to. It is part tutorial, part reference book and part inspiration.

No one who is doing web development can afford to ignore CSS for long, and this is the book that takes you beyond CSS as a simple tool for design and brings you to CSS as the missing third leg in creating world-class web applications: [..]for server side technology; Ajax for client side responsiveness and enhanced customer experience, and CSS for separation of data from presentation and layout. An astonishing book. Highly recommended.

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Hedley Finger

For the beginner to aspire to

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2008

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I bought this book understanding that it would help me learn CSS design, but soon found that it was not for the beginner but for an experienced CSS practitioner. The book is divided into themes such as 'Layout', 'Typography', etc. and illustrates the points being made by references to examples on the web site.

You can browse to the relevant pages and read the CSS code to understand how effects were made. As such the book is an inspiration for beginners to aim for after they have had some experience with CSS, perhaps by going to the original inventors, Lie and Bos: Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition) .

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B. Eaton

Worthwhile reading for web developers and non-web designers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 10, 2005

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This book is not a CSS tutorial, rather a sales pitch and guide for 'correct' use of the technology. It uses the csszengarden.com website as a case study for explaining how to make innovative use of CSS by explaining the structure, then the thinking behind the various designs submitted to the site. So it's actually more of a guide to design - but one that I would recommend that web developers read.
I say this as a (sometime) ASP/ASP.NET/PHP developer, who up until this point, "doesn't do design". I saw it as an inconvenience in the creation of otherwise technically brilliant (modesty eh!) web applications. Yet the whole css zen garden concept could actually make the life of web developers a lot easier.
Developers could eschew design altogether while creating web pages/forms that offer true flexibility for real designers. But the beauty of this book is that it actually gives hints, tips, and pointers, that in the absence of a designer in teams of programmers, could help make web developers into half decent designers.
This is more of an interest book that will hopefully change the attitude of the new breed of unwilling web designers that the .NET framework has created. It may also help designers that aren't currently working with new media to bring their talents to the web in a way that doesn't involve using Macromedia Flash.
It's not perfect but it will open your eyes.

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Kaz 52

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 29, 2018

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Andrew Battye

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2007

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If you thought standard-compliant CSS web pages had to be boxy and bland, this book will show you how wrong you were. The book simply shows many designs for the same web page and then talks you through the logic behind the CSS techniques used in the design. It is a great source of inspiration. What the book is not is a CSS reference book - try the O'Reilly series for one of these. What this book is, however, is a demonstration of what can be acheived with a modicum of CSS skills and a lot of artistic talent.

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George Georgopoulos

A really cool book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 7, 2014

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It came in a price that nobody could resist! The book has been used a lot in the past, but its pages are in a good condition.
Regarding the content, I would say that it can definitely help developers and designers get some really fresh and cool ideas and practices. Highly recommended!

bmcream

Great at the date of purchase...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 15, 2014

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New ideas when ordered... A very Interesting learning curve.

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