CSS Mastery

Like many web designers that are more used to designing table-based layouts, I was reluctant to use CSS. Early on, aside from stylizing some text and backgrounds, I just didn’t understand it completely and thought it was too buggy to position and layout web sites.

At the University of Barnes & Noble, the place where many designers purchase their ever-growing education, I couldn’t find a book that explained real world solutions to CSS, was conversational in tone, and gave multiple methods for achieving the same goal. This held true for tutorial websites as well. Most of them claimed they had the ultimate solutions, and barely any of them explained the science behind their tactics.

Andy Budd’s book, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, really sums up exactly what I was looking for. He doesn’t just give CSS options that work great in one browser. He gives the best option that works on all browsers, work-around hacks that solve the problem in other browsers, and lets you know if there will be any validation problems.

With this book, you can download chapter samples and test the results in your browser. At $34.99, it is well worth the price.