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Designing with Web Standards

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

If your HTML/XHTML and CSS is still not standards compliant and are still struggling to decide whether it’s worth it or not then “Designing with Web Standards” by Jeffrey Zeldman is an essential reading.

This book was recommended by my professor at NYU when I took the class on “Web Development with CSS and XHTML”. Finally, I found time to read this book. Since I have been using XHTML since about one year and a half, I found myself skipping through most of the content. The most useful part for me in this book was the resources on accessibility. I read that part very carefully and is now a must in all websites I code. So, it was worth reading this book.

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Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours

Friday, November 11th, 2005

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.

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