CSS Pointers Bookstore

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Whilst searching for CSS books in both book stores and computer stores in a major U.S. city, it was dismaying to learn that _no_ CSS books were available. To facilitate the dissemination of CSS knowledge, we have searched the available volumes at amazon.com, and provided links to those which we have located. If you purchase a book by following a link from this document, we will eventually be paid a sales commission for that purchase.

The cost is given in USD, and the synopses, where given, are from Amazon. If you have read one of the books, and are interested in reviewing it for publication on this page, please let me know. Unless otherwise indicated, the CSSPG offers no opinion on the quality of the books listed, not their suitability for your purpose. You are encouraged to read the online reviews published by Amazon, and note their star system of rating the material offered.

Books focusing on DHTML are grouped, as are browser-specific offerings. You may also want to search Amazon for specific topics or titles.

CSS/HTML

Author: Owen Briggs,Steven Champeon,Eric Costello,Matt Patterson Title: Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation
Cost: $24.99

Synopsis:Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enable us to style and lay out HTML data on a web page without the use of messy <table> and <font> tags, and without the use of "hacks" such as invisible GIF files. CSS allows for the separation of content from presentation, so that web designers can change the entire design of a site by modifying one stylesheet, rather than updating each HTML document that makes up the web site.
This book is a focused, no-fluff coverage of the how to use CSS and XHTML for the visual design of web pages. Its practical techniques will give you core CSS skills, as well as showing how to apply them in today's browsers.

Author: Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos Title: Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for the Web
Cost: $31.96

Synopsis: Cascading Style Sheets, developed by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos of the World Wide Web Consortium, offer a powerful and manageable way for authors, artists, and typographers to create much-requested visual effects that will put aesthetics to the forefront of the Web. This book provides a comprehensive guide to Cascading Style Sheets. Includes 32 pages of full-color examples. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

Author: Steve Mulder
Title: Web Designer's Guide to Style Sheets
Cost: $31.99

Synopsis: Outlines the parts and properties of style sheets, covering such topics as selectors, declarations, and speed optimizing; and the accompanying CD-ROM provides ready-to-use templates of usable style sheets. Original. (Advanced).

Author: Dan Livingston, Micah Brown
Title: Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals
Cost: $23.99

Author: Craig Zacker
Title: 10 Minute Guide to Html Style Sheets
Cost: $11.99

Synopsis: Style Sheets bring similar formatting and control standards to the Web that desktop publishers have used for years. Working behind the scenes to allow Web authors to specify point sizes, page margins, and spacing between lines, Style Sheets control the formatting in a separate function freeing authors to focus on content creation.

Author: Joseph R. Jones, Paul Thurrott
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Cost: $19.96

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Author: Natanya Pitts, et. al.
Title: Html Style Sheets Design Guide
Cost: $31.99

Synopsis: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) represent the next evolution of HTML. This guide presents all the key features of CSS in a hands-on format. The tutorials, projects, and reference materials are presented so that the reader can master and apply style sheets technology as quickly as possible. The CD-ROM presents all examples used in the book plus demo versions of style-conscious software for PC, Macintosh, and UNIX machines.

Author: Bryan Pfaffenberger
Title: The HTML/CSS Developer's Resource Guide
Cost: $49.95

Synopsis: This is an excellent reference/utility for graphics programmers, Webmasters, and anyone working with HTML. The CD-ROM has thousands of cut-n-paste applets to demonstrate the possibilities of Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, and Dynamic HTML, plus ready-made code to compose supercharged Web pages using HTML version 4.0 and CSS.