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Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours

November 11th, 2005

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours

This is the first CSS book I read. Indeed, in about 24 hours I had a pretty good idea of how to use CSS. During the early days when I was still learning CSS, this book was my CSS bible. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a quick basic idea of how to use CSS. It is easy to read and understand. This book is just the first step towards learning CSS.

When I got a job at ECommerce Partners, they asked me to learn how to use stylesheets. So, I had just two days before I started work to learn how to use stylesheets. This book helped me to start developing websites using CSS stylesheets. I was fascinated by some of the styles this book recommended such as how to create text shadow using stylesheets. I loved it and I remember using it when I did the HTML for BigCheesePCs.com (you will see that the page title “About Us” has a shadow. This has been created with CSS.).

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4 Responses to “Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours”

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    November 12th, 2005 at 8:33 pm

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    November 14th, 2005 at 11:04 am

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