{"id":115,"date":"2006-10-03T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-html-utopia-2nd-edition\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T22:40:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T03:40:29","slug":"book-review-html-utopia-2nd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-html-utopia-2nd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables using CSS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another good book from the boys and girls at Sitepoint &#8211; a well written book that walks you through the techniques of modern web design.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0975240277&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years a whole bunch of CSS \/ web standards based books have hit the market. Some were good and some sucked<br \/>\nbut there was one thing that was been consistent about them: they all reflected the <strong>maturing<\/strong> web design community.<\/p>\n<p>You need to pay attention the word <strong>maturing<\/strong>: there were still a few technnical things that had not exactly settled in terms of how web designers should do things.<\/p>\n<p><em>HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables using CSS<\/em> is among the first books I&#8217;ve seen that demonstrates a maturity in web design. <\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about modern web design practices and techniques. The following topics are covered over 450 pages:<\/p>\n<p>01. Basics<br \/>\n02. CSS 101<br \/>\n03. CSS Code<br \/>\n04. Validation &#038; Backward Compatibility<br \/>\n05. Color<br \/>\n06. Fonts<br \/>\n07. Text Effects<br \/>\n08. Simple CSS Layouts<br \/>\n09. Three-Column Layouts<br \/>\n10. Fixed-Width Layouts<br \/>\nA. CSS Miscellaneous<br \/>\nB. CSS Color Reference<br \/>\nC. CSS Property Reference <\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are a total noob to web design, this is not the book for you. You can start with my free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-to-build-websites.com\/\">web design tutorial<\/a> to get your feet wet, then you&#8217;ll be ready to buy this book!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a book worth getting.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another good book from the boys and girls at Sitepoint &#8211; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}