Sep15

CSS Mastery

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Author: Andy Budd, Simon Collison & Cameron Moll.
Publisher: Friends of Ed.

CSS Mastery
I had originally thumbed through this book, subtitled “Advanced Web Standard Solutions” in my local bookstore and shrugged it off as covering pretty much most of what I’d already digested from other popular CSS books. It wasn’t until a friend showed me some cool techniques from the book that I properly read though it and regretted not buying it sooner!

Though it’s aimed at the intermediate web designer, it is well written and I would certainly recommend this as an essential buy for all web designers. The book begins with Clear:Left’s Andy Budd provides most of the content starting with a chapter about well-structured and meaningful mark-up. It’s these best practices that will help catapult you into the realms of CSS Master! It then recaps on the box model, positioning and floats, making it easy for a beginner to pick up this book and run with it, before moving into the techniques, with clear and concise examples, including a couple of good chapters on bugs and hacks.

The final two chapters are where Simon Collison & Cameron Moll step in to demonstrate these examples in two real-world showcase websites. This book is absolutely the best book currently on offer for CSS web design.

Buy CSS Mastery at amazon.co.uk
Buy CSS Mastery at amazon.com

3 comments for this post

  1. sandie Says:

    I’ve borrowed this book from a friend, and i’m a very, very new kid on this Block! I can uinderstand some of it- but there is no doubt, that it’s a good book, that’s gonna save you some time later on- when you’re good at designing websites because of all the clean markup tips…

  2. Stuart Says:

    I’m reading this!

  3. Stuart Says:

    oh also check out HTML Mastery on the same series. :)

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