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A good CSS Book

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:00 pm
by Luke
I was looking into buying HTML Utopia: Design without tables using CSS because the name of the book describes EXACTLY what I'd like to learn to do, but after reading reviews on Amazon, it seems like a hunk of crap. Does anybody know of a really good book for somebody who is used to table design, but wants to move on to CSS? Thanks in advance!

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:15 pm
by seodevhead
Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello, Matt Patterson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159059 ... e&n=283155

That's the one.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:29 pm
by Luke
Thank you VERY much... wow the reviews are all 5 stars. I will look into it.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:34 pm
by feyd
for technical information and standards stuffs, I like O'Reilly's.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:07 pm
by m3mn0n
feyd wrote:for technical information and standards stuffs, I like O'Reilly's.
Yeah. I had a read of that at the book store briefly. Good pick up IMO.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:23 pm
by Moocat
I'm not condescending when I say I use http://www.google.com I just do. Also, there is a great links site that I poke my head into a bit, http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:42 pm
by pilau
Well it's not exactly a book, but: http://www.visibone.com/products/browserbook.html

It's a very interesting, professional, efficient AND nice looking product.
Contain's quick reference for CSS, all web-compliant colors (hex codes), JS, HTML, XHTML, fonts and HTML entities, DOM, and even RegExps.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:17 pm
by nickman013
Anybody know a good PHP book?

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:33 pm
by Luke
I thought this was a great book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076455 ... s&v=glance

This was what I started with... good first php book, but horrible at introducting Databases:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067232 ... e&n=283155

I would buy the php & Mysql bible book if i were you... it was excellent.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:06 pm
by Chris Corbyn
For online stuff w3schools is what I use most for reference. As for books I have to 100% agree with feyd... the CSS books I've seen by O'Reilly's are excellent.