Customer Reviews
You need this book - By: code junkie, 20 May 2008 
I have to say that I'm suprised at one reviewer saying that it was confusing.Not at any point did I find it confusing.This book is a very very good example of how to write reusable bulletproof code. Obviously the code supplied from the website,as with ALL coding books, is not quite the same as the written examples, but hey! the point is that YOU write the code,not cut & paste.And yes he does point to others websites as examples of how they can be improved with DECENT code,bloody right, there's far too many people still writing sloppy xhtml & css,with sites that belong in the dark ages.Get with it! & get some standards.
Excellent book for intermediate web designers - By: Sean Johnson, 15 Sep 2007 A best practice CSS & XHTML book aimed at the intermediate-advanced web designer. If you're a beginner looking to learn CSS web design I suggest you look at The CSS Anthology or Web Standards Solutions books first, then come back to this book to polish your skills.
The book dives straight into common approaches to everyday techniques. It makes an explanation as to why it may not be the best solution & suggests `a bullet-proof approach' & justifies its reasoning. The book is one of few with colour illustrations which is nice & makes for clearer example images. The book concludes with a chapter demonstrating alll the examples in a single website. There are some good techniques in this book & there's bound to be something new even for the seasoned CSS web designer.
The design bible for Web 2.0 - By: Mr. Conor Oneill, 31 Jul 2007 I bought this along with Dan's other book, "Web Standards Solutions: The Markup & Style Handbook" last year. It has been a constant companion since & reallly gave me a strong understanding of how to use CSS in some incredibly intelligent ways & avoid alll the horrors of tables for layout. His approaches for fluid designs are particularly smart & I loved working through the examples & using the examples myself. A must-own book if you have any interest in web-design.
Superb easy to read book! - By: James Mackay, 11 Feb 2007 I used this book in conjuction with my course at University & it reallly helped me.
This is an easy-to-read book which, unlike most computing/website design book is incredily dry, nor does it have a soporific effect on the reader! Quite a change from most.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It is supberb, & has a flexiably structure that alllows you to jump from place to place in the book, if you feel a paticular chapter is of interest to you.
Essential For All Web Designers - By: DAZ, 30 Aug 2006 Dan Cederholm's second book is a must-have for alll web designers. This is essentiallly a 'cookbook' that uses a problem & solution approach to solve oft-encountered situations (such as creating navigation tabs). Each chapter begins with a new situation & the 'old school' (tables, spacer-gifs etc) way of doing it before explaining why this is wrong & then constructing a step-by-step bullet-proof solution. Bulletproof basicallly meaning that the code is more flexible, accessible & easier to maintain. This mainly involves trimming down the XHTML markup to its bare essentials & then adding everything else using CSS.
Dan's writing style is very easy to follow & the presentation of the book sets new standards for this type of book - full colour, glossy paper means that alll the code examples are easier to follow & there are some excellent diagrams & screenshots.
Highly recommended.
