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Title: A teacher's guide to cognitive type theory and learning style.(Review) (book review)
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What is this book about?

Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS teaches you how to write Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. It follows standards-based principles, but also teaches readers ways around problems they are likely to face using (X)HTML.

While XHTML is the "current" standard, the book still covers HTML because many people do not yet understand that XHTML is the official successor to HTML, and many readers will still stick with HTML for backward compatibility and simpler/informal Web pages that don't require XHTML compliance.

The book teaches basic principles of usability and accessibility along the way, to get users into the mode of developing Web pages that will be available to as many viewers as possible from the start. The book also covers the most commonly used programming/scripting language -- JavaScript -- and provides readers with a roadmap of other Web technologies to learn after mastering this book to add more functionality to their sites. ... Read more

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Wonderful
This book is really good for us beginners.I recommend doing all the examples it tells you to do.I did even some of the examples shown, because the more I practice it, the easier it is to remember.A good book.

Should be your SECOND book on the topic
Anyone serious about learning web design should consider this book. It is a superb textbook, offering six chapters of solid (X)HTML education followed by excellent introductions to style sheets, design theory, and scripting. Used in conjunction with the free code download (available from the publisher's web site), it does exactly what it says on the tin.

That said, I would not recommend this book for absolute beginners or dabblers in web design. Simply put, it IS a textbook... the black and white illustrations are simply not sufficient to get a grasp of color, layout, and the like - you must do the end of chapter exercises. Further, the sequential instruction presented in the book hampers its use as a reference; it can answer "what does this tag do?" but not "how do I do that?"

Bottom line: if you have a little HTML experience and have already read a thin "newbie book" on the topic, then you are the ideal student for this excellent self-study course.

An excellent book...
This is an excellent book in order to learn actual web page design. It's really easy to follow by non-english speakers (like me, I'm spanish).

It has a lot of usefull information about HTML, CSS and general web design.

Highly recommended!!!

Programmer
I as a programmer think that this book is a productive book, the guy go over all the materials you need to learn step by step and smoothly.

Excellent - Informative
It's an excellent and informative book! It helped me very much to teach the item to a very "difficult audience"! ... Read more

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Title: Sleeping bags & pads: a guide to finding the right sleeping bag for your style of camping.(2006 GEAR GUIDE: SLEEPING BAGS)(Buyers guide)
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From the supplier: Disciplinary style manuals contain valuable information regarding the method of discourse employed in various disciplines. These manuals can serve as useful guides in technical writing and editing because of their normative nature and connection to scientific practice.

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Title: Nueva York, la guia mas moderna para estar en moda.(TT: New York, the modern guide to being in style)
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Title: Covered in color: vivid warm-ups to keep you cozy.(dm style)(dancer's clothes)(Buyers guide)
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Title: Making up is hard to do.(DM STYLE)(theatrical makeup)(shopping guide)
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Title: In living.(dm style)(dancer's fashion)(Buyers guide)
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The most authoritative quick reference available for CSS programmers. This handy resource gives you programming essentials at your fingertips, including all the new tags and features in CSS 2.0. You'll get concise information on designing and deploying complex style sheets as well as details on browser support. ... Read more

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Badly Organized
Though this guide is chock full of information, he does not build. He right away jumps into a convoluted description of "selectors", while including a bunch of things that he says (explain this later), (explain this later). Folks, whenever the author is constantly mentioning stuff that he has not defined yet, it's a bad design for the book. There is so sense of building up--he just jumps into the topic and you feel like you missed something, like there's a chapter missing.
I have used CSS for years and was looking for some clarity on a few points of how selectors are used. This book is poorly organized because you feel that he uses stuff in examples that he had not yet explained. For example, on page 9 he jumps into a very complex description of how "specificity calculation(s)" are formed. At this point, the reader has not really been exposed to any real examples of simple specificity. So, this is a book for people like me who already understand CSS and not for beginners.

Good quick reference Book
This book does its stated purpose very well. Not too indepth, not too shallow. Find a property, check it out, and back to work.

A reference for the expert - definitely not a learning tool
Probably a good reference if you already know CSS.
Not useful if you're learning CSS from scratch.

Compact But Comprehensive /w Easy to Fix Flaws
You know CSS, but you are not using it every day thus not remember every single attribute and specific syntax for every style there is?

You are like me and you will appreciate this little helper. It is very compact and filled with every CSS 2.0 style there is.

It also shows which properties and styles are compatible with which Browser. It is up to you if you want to use the latest styles available or rather fall back to the styles and properties that virtually every browser in use today can render correctly.

This is a compact reference for CSS and not meant for people who want to learn CSS. It would make a good addition when you buy a book to learn CSS and get this reference for quick look-ups of the already learned styles.

Not as Handy as It Should Be

I liked the Idea of a quick reference for CSS, because I always struggle with remembering the exact syntax (or confuse them with HTML or JS attributes) or can't recall which properties can be applied to which HTML element. I have to problems with this reference, which makes it for me less effective than I wish it to be.

1) This is not and issue with the content, but the page layout. It wouldn't be too hard to print the chapter and the property that can be found on the page at the top of every page to make scanning of the book easier and reduces the need for a detour to the index.

2) It would have been great if there would have been not only a list of attributes sorted alphabetically, but also a list of HTML elements sorted alphabetically with the information for each of them, which CSS attribute can be applied to it. It makes the book thicker, but you could have compensated that by using thinner paper and use less empty line in the content.

I hope that my suggestions might find it into a future, version of the book, which also incorporated the CSS 3.0 attributes that are supported by some of the latest browsers like Mozilla Firefox.

Life Saver
By the time I was taking my second or third CSS course, this book became a life saver.Even now, 2 years later, this is the one book I cary around with me for syntax.

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Cascading Style Sheets For Dummies covers the essentials you need to know to incorporate CSS technology into Web projects. This friendly guide covers the enhanced features of the technology that allows you to have total control over the look and feel of your Web projects. ... Read more

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Title Should Say "By Dummies"!
This is absolutely the worst book I have ever attempted to read.I agree with the other reviewers' remarks concerning the author's cutesy feeble attempts at humor.More irritating, however, is his failure to describe adequately the topics on which he touches, and the organization of the book is poor.He tells you part of something in one chapter, and maybe another part of it in another chapter - or not at all.When you apply the instructions he provides, the result often doesn't work, and there is nothing in the book to help you figure out why.

Most of the section headings are extremely stupid puns.Now, I have nothing against puns, mind you, but there is an enormous difference between a smart pun and a stupid one.Damon Dean must not be able to get the smart ones.Yet from a navigational standpoint, using puns in headings is really stupid.The headings are what a reader relies on to locate a topic.Any competent writer knows that.When puns are used in the headings, the reader is at a real loss about the subsumed topic, which completely defeats the purpose of the headings in the first place.

The old adage "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B. S." no doubt applies here.Generally when a speaker or writer succeeds only in confusing the audience, it's because he doesn't know what he's talking about.I would venture to say that that is the case with Damon Dean.

If this were the only book a person had for learning how to use cascading style sheets, he would give up on the subject altogether before he got halfway through.I, for one, will never waste my money on a "For Dummies" book again!

Only if you really are a dummy!
While it's true that the Dummies series are supposed to provide a way for the less-proficient to easily get their feet wet, this installment is so annoyingly scripted as to be headache-inducing. The author attempts to lighten the load by injecting humor into the book. But the jokes are bad and they mostly just clutter the author's run-on sentences. The text is so cutesy at times I found myself actually getting fatigued reading it. This book could be simplified and probably cut down by 50 pages if the author would dispense with the "funny" interjections and just focus on the topic.

Of course, it's just a beginner's guide, so the book serves no practical reference purpose after you get through it.

Who edited this book?
The writing in this book is muddy, and like another reviewer here, I had to buy a second book to figure out what this book was saying. Since Dummies books are for beginners, a logical order running from easy to difficult should be used. This author is all over the place.

The above is bad enough, then add to this the obvious fact that the book was merely spell-checked but never looked at by an editor (or at least by one who knows grammar and syntax).

The code isn't consistent, and the index has errors.

Don't buy this book. It was obviously pushed out the publisher's door without any attempt to make sure customers get their money's worth. Don't you get ripped off too.

Wow - amazing this ever got published!
The author mingles in many personal remarks which clutters the content substantially, making for a difficult, annoying read.After finding another introductory & intermediate CSS book, & then comparing the two, I can honestly say CSS For Dummies is not organized well, has examples which do not contain vital information or a variety of applications.Based on other books I've owned & read, this book is a poor choice when learning CSS.

Worst of all, there was at least one sample file on the included CD where illegal [chemical] use was cited in the text (see Ch8_fixed.html on the CD - the author writes about "being pissed", and taking [a chemical]).Examples as this clearly make the book an undesirable selection - especially for youth trying to learn CSS.There are simply no reasons for either using offensive language or blatant references to illegal [chemical] use in a book like this.

I'll never buy another "Dummies" book again.

too many mistakes
Full of errors and mistakes -- not only this, but the author is impossible to follow.Had to buy another book on the topic.Stay away. ... Read more

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