Also find Christopher on:     Christopher SchmittThe Internet's Christopher Schmitt Austin, Texas Areas of Expertise:
Webcast: HTML5 Design Webcast: Adaptive Images in Responsive Web Design "A useful and comprehensive reference for web coders of all stripes." "Without a doubt, this book belongs in your library if you layout even the most simple site using CSS." "A 'must' for any CSS or web programmer's collection.
" "The CSS Cookbook is a hefty tome, but it is both thorough and easy to read, making it a comprehensive guide to writing Cascading Style Sheets for beginning to intermediate coders. Schmitt has an engaging and encouraging style that will push anyone interested in using CSS to try the exercises and examples without fear of failure. The content is flexible in that you can choose to integrate CSS into your websites completely, or pick and choose from smaller packets of code." "CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition is laid out in typical O'Reilly "cookbook" format. A problem is presented, the best solution is provided, and then it is explained in detail, including alternative solutions. A complete listing of the necessary code and screen shot of its implementation in a Web browser are also part of each "recipe." A large appendix offers extremely useful lists and tables of CSS elements for HTML tags and which Web browsers they will work with...Every Web designer and developer who has to deal with XHMTL or CSS -- even if only infrequently -- should have this book on his desk. It deals with the difficult challenges that Web designers deal with every day and on every project. Even if you think you're a CSS guru, CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition is still likely to teach you something new. I'd also strongly recommend this book for hobbyist Web designers who want to get into hand-coded XHTML and CSS, or who want to graduate from WYSIWYG Web editors to the real thing." "I would highly recommend this book for the personal library for anyone who regularly uses CSS or plans to use CSS." "How many times have you visited a website and thought to yourself, "Gee, that looks cool. I wonder how they do that?" Well, chances are this book can answer that question. The examples and solutions are pretty clear, which is good...This book serves a "I know what I want to do - how do I do it" purpose, and it does that well." "I've often said that I like the O'Reilly "cookbook" format for getting ideas and solving issues I didn't know I had. CSS Cookbook (2nd edition) by Christopher Schmitt is another one of those books that will earn space on my shelf at work...It will either answer the "how do I do that" questions or spur the "I hadn't thought of doing that" moments." "One of the strong points of the book is that it assumes no prior knowledge. This makes the book accessible to the general reader and makes it a not bad introduction to CSS selectors. The typical reader will skim or skip over the first quarter of the book. For the reader that has to handle a user base that is adopting IE 7, the books looks valuable. For others who are curious, it gives a sense of why making web pages work well across browsers.
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