Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design
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There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today’s browsers, and you’ll be convinced that now’s the time to start experimenting with it.
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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design
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Don’t get me wrong. The information in this book is great. The author gives you code that works and what doesn’t work when creating the look of the webpage you will be creating along in the book. What’s even better is that this book is all in color, compared to some other ones that I’ve seen out there. Do note that this book does come in a different edition where a DVD is also included.
Each chapter has enough images to give you an idea of how the graphics are supposed to look. It seems like books these days like to keep their data files online, which is where this book’s files are stored. I guess it’d probably save them money (and you) for not including the data on a cd with the book. No big deal, really.
My only gripe about this book is that you don’t begin creating the website “in order”. What I mean is that there really isn’t a way for you to input the code that’s given in the book and then load it in a browser to see how it’s supposed to look like, compared to what’s in the book.
For instance, in the first chapter, you’re creating a chart for come drinks. As I see the images in the book, and copy the code, it, of course, won’t look that way because you haven’t specified WHERE on the page it’s supposed to go. Thus, when you load the code in a browser, you’re chart fills the entire screen instead of looking like the image in the book.
I understand that you’re creating the assets that will eventually be added into the final web page, but I wish the author could have written the book where he specified where these assets would be added so that the readers could see how it’s supposed to look like.
Other than that, I didn’t find anything TOO new to CSS that I already know, so if you’re already familiar with it, then this book might not be for you. There were a few things that I found that I liked, such as rounded corners, does/don’t of using opacity, the “webkit”, just to name a few. The whole point of the book is to help you create a website that’s flexible to edit and that’s compliant.
Rating: 3 / 5