Book Review: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables using CSS.
October 3, 2006
Another good book from the boys and girls at Sitepoint – a well written book that walks you through the techniques of modern web design.
Over the last few years a whole bunch of CSS / web standards based books have hit the market. Some were good and some sucked
but there was one thing that was been consistent about them: they all reflected the maturing web design community.
You need to pay attention the word maturing: there were still a few technnical things that had not exactly settled in terms of how web designers should do things.
HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables using CSS is among the first books I’ve seen that demonstrates a maturity in web design.
WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT
It’s all about modern web design practices and techniques. The following topics are covered over 450 pages:
01. Basics
02. CSS 101
03. CSS Code
04. Validation & Backward Compatibility
05. Color
06. Fonts
07. Text Effects
08. Simple CSS Layouts
09. Three-Column Layouts
10. Fixed-Width Layouts
A. CSS Miscellaneous
B. CSS Color Reference
C. CSS Property Reference
WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?
If you are a total noob to web design, this is not the book for you. You can start with my free web design tutorial to get your feet wet, then you’ll be ready to buy this book!
You need to have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. Once you have that, this book would quickly guide you through the sometimes thorny path to web design nerd glory.
Again, a book worth getting.
Stefan Mischook
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