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July 06, 2005
Book Review: Charles Wyke-Smith's Stylin With CSS: A Designer's Guide
I have put off CSS just about as long as I can. I hate having to post questions to forums on one of the zillions of hacks out there, and it is simply not cost-effective for me to learn the technology to the point that it is second-nature to me yet. Once the site has been mocked up and the user goals have been defined (or vice-versa), I NEED to get to work on it and turn the site around and get paid.
Don't get me wrong - I do use CSS quite a bit. But I haven't gone to the lengths some of my heroes have gone too, like Zeldman, Eric Meyer, and others. But this may change with the new book from New Riders - "Stylin' With CSS: A Designers Guide". (Although "Pimp My Stylesheets: A Designers Guide" would have been a cooler name.)
I have never met Charles Wyke-Smith, so at the risk of sounding like I am doing some serious butt-kissing - I almost felt this book was written specifically for me. Gone are the elitist arguments that come across some of the lists I am on. Instead, there is much practical how-to advice on being a productive web designer with CSS as your main sculpting tool.
This is the kind of book you can even pick up and read a chapter for a few minutes, and walk away with something new. (Well, until you run out of chapters ...) All in all a superb book that does not try to be the "end-all-be-all" of CSS.
His book serves a purpose. It is a tool. And a great tool at that.
Posted by Don at July 6, 2005 11:06 AM
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