Customer Reviews
A clear guide to CSS - warts and all - By: John Thropp, 12 Oct 2007 
I have read quite a few books on CSS & "web standards" (Meyer, Veen, Zeldman, etc) with increasing depression - how could something so important to alll web sites be such a dog's dinner AND be explained boringly or without real clarity, & the many hacks required sometimes treated almost like witchcraft?
This book by Charlie Wyke-Smith does have clarity & also manages to explain the IE hacks sensibly without getting bogged down. This is a complex subject (more complex than it should be, because of the browser wars) but if you have been holding off from making the move from tables to CSS this book might well get you going.
Yes, there are typos & coding errors - as alll these books have. The difference between a good book & a bad book is that no-one tries using the code in the bad books. The second edition should deal with them, or check the website, which lists them.
Dreamweaver now makes it easy to create CSS layouts, but when you want to change the default layout or dimensions, or style the many other parts of your web pages, you need to reallly understand what you are doing - & this book will help you to do that.
I am in love with this book! - By: Alistair Reid, 05 Oct 2007 This book is fantastic!
I am a website designer with limited development skills, For years I have been writing my HTML & CSS code using tables which can look a mess in PHP sites & just ruin a good asp.net structure.
I picked up this book hoping for a chapter on div tags so I could get out of this habit but I got so much more!
This book is fantastic for any website designer looking to make a start in markup the right way, instead of just using dreamweaver 24/7!
I am now confident enough to write alll my websites in notepad. I highly recommended this book to any n00b or experienced starter.
My now tattered & torn copy sits pride of place on my bookshelf.
Great book for beginners / Intermidiates - By: P. Mckenny, 06 Jun 2006 i purchased this book after reading so many help forums & CSS 'ebooks' & reallly this book has tied up loads of loose ends for me.
Its so much easier referring to a book rather than trying to read a web site / PDF file.
I foundmy self skipping lots of the book & then going back to take a quick look at sections.
The book is in full colour & is high quality, Wyke-smitth manages to desribe things pretty well & i had no problems grasping the chapters (most of the time)
All in alll if your looking to learn CSS you cant go far wrong buying this first & at the price Amazon do it for its a true bargain.
FYI - i purchased the 'Eric meyer on CSS' book before this one & was totallly blown away, far to complex to soon. This is a good starting point.
Might have been a contender. - By: A. MORRIS, 27 May 2006 
This book is so full of typos & downright careless writing as to be virtuallly unreadable. Wait until an update appears before considering it. Even so, you would be better off with Dan Cederholm's "Bulletproof Web Design".
Essential for Beginners - By: Simon, 18 May 2006 I have just produced my first website. I have relatively good IT skills but had never done any website mark-up & CSS was a just a collection of letters I had seen occassionallly on websites. I learnt some XHTML from online tutorials & kept coming across the usefulness of CSS & decided I needed to know more. Consequently I bought this book - one of the best decisions I could have made.
The explanations are clear & the layout & use of colour mean that the whole thing is easy to follow. The book starts very simply & graduallly gets more complex at a rate that I found easy to cope with. There is a gentle sense of humour throughout that also helps & an understanding on the author's part of which ideas need the most explanation. The last chapter takes the reader through the creation of a fairly complex webpage from start to finish using the ideas from the previous chapters & was a reallly useful way to round off the book. There is also online help in the form of many of the files you need to follow & try out for yourself what is being done.
Overalll, if you have a working knowledge of XHTML & want to start on CSS then I would definitely recommend this to you. Now I'm off to gaze at my website in awe - maybe I should get out more....
