Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes)
| 2005-11-07 00:00:00 | | 0 | CSS
The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.
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Happy with purchase
Highly recommended well-written book about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I am very happy I purchased this book. Twenty-two easy to follow lessons with downloadable support files from their website. I found it very easy to transition from html to CSS. Excellent reference book. I had looked into several other books but didn't purchase them. I only purchased one other CSS book, which I was very unhappy with.
Bonus: author responded to my email question with a very helpful reply. (Rare nowadays instead of other authors whom respond smart-alecky to purchase further books/dvds without answering question.) Check out some of the websites I did:
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Great beginner book
Very easy to follow, by the time you are done (took me maybe 2-3hrs as I opted to type everything out, helps to learn faster, recommend downloading a copy of Dreamweaver trial and type out the html/css side by side) you should be good to go with CSS. A lot easier to understand than most other texts I've seen. Doesn't make you an expert at CSS, but builds a solid foundation.
Great for those of us that has a short attention span.
Be warned though, the text does assume basic familiarity with HTML. If you don't you might wanna blaze through the companion book, `Teach yourself HTML in 10 minutes` first as the text focuses on external CSS which should be learned after a basic treatise on HTML.
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Their 10 minutes are a lot longer than mine
Very clearly written so that the CSS coding can be understood. The chapters are broken into easily understood bits. That said, however, `Lessons` is a very loosely used term, and 10 minutes is exceptionally optimistic. There are no lessons per se. The downloadable `Lessons` are simply the codes that are illustrated in the book. No real `Do this` type exercises to see what is happening. You have to sort of play on your own unless you are better than I at understanding abstract concepts.
So far, I'm up to lesson 4 and have about 2 hours in. Of course, this is due to some major `aside` play --I read, add code to a web page in Dreamweaver, change code to see what happens, etc.-- so that I can understand what exactly the code is affecting. I must admit that I do understand the codes a lot better than I did before. Using this book has helped me understand how Dreamweaver works with CSS as well.
It takes longer than 10 minutes to even read some of the chapters, so I'm not sure how they came up with the title; pretty catchy though. This is one useful tool for learning CSS, and works well in conjunction with others; not a stand-alone though.
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James Tadeo, Web Design Brampton
I work with Web sites every day and will need a reference now and again to get my work done. This book is handy and fits nicely in my pack and acts as my main reference for CSS. The examples are clear and build from the previous chapters. It also has an accompanying Web site that shows you what the CSS script will look like when implemented. I believe this is a good starter book and the price is just right.
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Cryptic
No plain English explanation of the reasoning behind the code. Assumes you'll understand what he means by `adjacent sibling selectors` and `document tree`. I gleaned some knowledge by copying the examples and trial and error, but it was frustrating and tedious. If you're a programmer you might be able to decipher this book, but if you're a newbie you'll get a clearer introduction, with relevant details, from a book like `HeadFirst HTML` by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman.