CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems

Book's Printing is Black & white.....

Fantastic

The book is cosily packed in a cardboard box and reached me intact. But just wondering, why is n't there the o reilly's trademark animal photo, not there on the cover!!!!

This is one of the best book on CSS I've ever read. No doubt, the content of book is great. BUT BUT BUT...1. This is book has ~400 pages and its cost is Rs. 880. This is very high in the Indian market.2. Printing quality is very poor. It seem like xerox/photocopy pages are just bound.3. The main charm of this book is COLOUR which is missing. Without colour, there is no fun in reading because many elements in the book make far better sense if coloured.

Amazing book but I got it in black and white so not the best deal. Better go for the colored one or buy an eBook. You need this book in colored or that's what I needed it to be

I like the book, very useful for me. Greats Illustrations ans explications.

El libro superó las expectativas que tenía cuando lo compre, la edición es maravillosa, el acabado del papel es genial y es a todo color, mostrando paso a paso como va cambiando cada cosa que modificamos con el css con imágenes.Es un libro obligatorio para cualquier amante del UI, ya que trae soluciones a problemas comunes a los que nos enfrentamos en el trabajo diario.

These are not really secrets but more 'non-obvious techniques that are not available from the CSS specifications and although you can find them on the web, the quality of the solution varies and usually involves reading through a long and meandering stack overflow or reddit thread until you have the full answer'.These are often little things that 'make' the design. For example, roll over the Your Lists option, top right on the Amazon menu. There's a little arrow at the top of the resulting menu that points to the option you are over.Most designers with some experience know how to do that (its an empty div and the arrow is its borders). Not obvious from the spec, and once you have read enough to implement it for the first time, you will be back on the web to see how to create a drop shadow that includes both the menu content div and the arrow (you add the shadow as a filter not a box-shadow). Easy enough, but that web search has just cost you half an hour the first time you have to implement this.This book contains lots of little titbits like this; adding polish to a design in ways that are not always obvious. The beauty of the book is that you get all these techniques quickly in one place, and its all been through peer review so none of the going back to the web again for 2 hours to fix the dreaded client bug 'it only works in Chrome'.There are two books that I think every designer and beginner should have and they are CSS Mastery and Pro CSS Layout Techniques (this is based on my owning a lot more CSS books and most of the others are useless; stuffy spec books that spend more time on being right than being practical). I'd put this as the third book you need to quickstart (or renew) a modern CSS knowledge.

I rarely leave product reviews, but I had to in this case in the hope the author may see this. THANK YOU SO MUCH.I've had an annoying UI bug that I've spent hours on and once my solutions started getting most heinous I decided to live with it instead of writing ungodly amounts of code for something that should be resolved with 1 line of css. For a separate issue a coworker recommended this book. (I couldn't wrap my head around how some css shapes are defined, the math involved etc.) While browsing chapters I found chapter 7, the section titled "Taming table column widths", and it changed my life. It had a great explanation on what the problem was with pictures and diagrams of exactly the issue I was seeing and also the solution had a similar explanation and picture of how the css property fixes the issue (More so the ramifications of the fix.)The book itself is a piece of art. It has been a joy browsing through the well laid out sections, beautiful typography, and helpful graphics. I have to recommend this book to anyone who does any amount of web design. There is a treasure trove of information in here that no amount of bing/google can compare. 5/5 - would buy again.

Eu trabalho com CSS há mais de uma década, e em meu trabalho costumam dizer que eu compreendo a fundo a linguagem. Mas penso que muito da minha compreensão se deve a livros essenciais que li já a algum tempo, particularmente os de Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholme e Eric Meyer.Havia chegado aquele estágio em que pensamos que não tem nada de realmente grandioso a surgir em novas versões do CSS, como o CSS3; mas isso foi até encontrar o blog e o livro de Lea Verou. Além de ter um nome engraçado e ser mais jovem do que eu, Lea não somente explica o que há de novo no CSS (como, por exemplo, que na verdade não existe algo como "CSS3"), mas praticamente inaugura uma nova forma de pensar a linguagem, o que faz toda a diferença.Ela é a nova "zen master" do CSS. Se você trabalha com essa linguagem, leia este livro o quanto antes, sob o risco de ficar para trás no bonde da história se demorar muito!