Beginners to CSS have a rough time of it. There's no escaping that tough, frustrating early stage before the light bulb clicks on and CSS becomes the coolest tool in your web kit. If you're a newcomer to CSS, welcome to the trenches. But don't despair—grab yourself a copy of Virginia DeBolt's newest book and you'll work your way through the newbie stage in no time at all.
DeBolt's Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS takes a unique approach to learning CSS and HTML. Rather than tackling them separately, DeBolt presents them as two complimentary skills that go hand-in-hand. Like a good cookbook, you'll learn not only how to prepare your page with HTML, but to serve it up beautifully with CSS.
DeBolt is an educator, as well as a writer and freelance designer, and it shows. Chapters build nicely on one another; instructions are clear and easy to follow; and there are abundant opportunities for readers to practice the techniques they learn. Through a series of well thought out lessons, the reader is taken from simple basics to more demanding HTML and CSS recipes.
If you have a hunger to learn accessible, standards-compliant CSS and HTML but don't know a div from a DOCTYPE, this is the book for you. Stick with it, and Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS will have you cooking up tasty web sites before you know it.
Noted on 24 August 2007 in
Thanks for mentioning my book, Kathy. I appreciate your opinion.