September 2006

2006-0928 Book Relief 3 Million

Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional

Beginning CSS Web Development by Simon Collison is the perfect beginners guide to CSS. As the subtitle says, ‘the book is about taking you from novice to professional’ by the time you are finished. This book is laid out very well, and moves at a perfect pace. Now, for those who are advanced CSS developers — this book is still a great book to have as reference to different aspects or topics. I agree with Simon, in that I wish I would have had a book like this when I started using CSS a few years ago. It would have saved many headaches and late nights of figuring things out the hard way. Here are some of my thoughts after reading the book:

  • The book’s pace was perfect.Simon did a great job of breaking this book into two major sections. The first section is comprised of understanding CSS. It starts w...

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DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript and DOM

DHTML Utopia by Stuart Langridge was a very thorough book on using Javascript and the DOM. This book seemed to pick up from the previous book I read, DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith. Not that one was better than the other, in fact, I think they complemented each other very well.
Stuart didn’t spend much introduction time for beginners, but dove right into manipulating the DOM in many different creative ways. He states clearly that Javascript should be used to enhance a page, and should degrade gracefully without (unobtrusive). With each chapter he made sure that his tutorials took this approach, and he stuck with it. Though there were several tutorials, I didn’t find all of them useful. For instance, his example of using Javascript and the DOM to create graphic rollovers could have been easier done using CSS. From a usability perspective, I h...

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