{"id":71,"date":"2006-02-28T21:33:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T02:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:12:01","slug":"css-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/css-mastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  CSS Mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;CSS Mastery&#8217; covers the most sought after CSS concepts, tips and techniques. It&#8217;s a must-have book for any intermediate level web designer because of&nbsp;the way it covers the material: <strong>it is concise, clear and pragmatic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you&#8217;re finished learning one great CSS technique, you turn the page and bing-bang, there&#8217;s another juicy one to jump into! A nice change from the zealot batherings&nbsp;I&#8217;ve had to&nbsp;endure in other books on the subject!<\/p>\n<p>Like all the books from this publisher, it is also well put together physically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good layout <\/li>\n<li>Good choice of paper <\/li>\n<li>Easy to read font <\/li>\n<li>Not too thick or thin <\/li>\n<li>Good use of graphics\/diagrams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1590596145&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The publisher (Friends of Ed,) have done a great job with their web design books lately; &#8216;CSS Mastery&#8217; along with Dan Cederholm&#8217;s book (Web Standards Solutions) are the best out there today. <\/p>\n<p>I have yet to read &#8216;Web Designer&#8217;s Reference&#8217; by Cederholm, but I hear it&#8217;s good too.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook (Web Design Heretic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions is a must have book for any web designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}