Re: Books on CSS - recommendations please

["Lou Quillio" <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

On Mon, August 22, 2005 5:11 am, Anthony Davey said:

> Does anybody have any recommendations for a good book on the subject?
> I'm in the UK, so anything that's available locally, rather than having
> to wait for Amazon to deliver across the pond would be great.

The combination of Zeldman (_Standards_) and online CSS references is
best, if I'm gauging your starting point right.

Remember that you can't master CSS (it ain't that hard) without mastering
XHTML.  CSS-P (positioning) is especially dependent on valid, well-formed
XHTML.  There are also important things to understand about normalizing
browser behavior, and things that simply don't work in today's world.

_Designing with Web Standards_ succinctly presents about ninety percent of
the last five years' hard-won webhead knowledge.  It might *seem* too
general, like it's not enough of an XHTML book and not enough of a CSS
book.  In fact, it explains what you really need to know:  how it all fits
together.

I and a lot of others learned this stuff at the same time Zeldman did but
we still refer to _Standards_, to remind ourselves *why* something works
or doesn't.

LQ



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