Hey guys, I moved, and am in the process of getting rid of stuff. I had ordered this book, Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm and found that there was nothing new in it for me. However it's great for someone just starting out. It has quite a few popular CSS techniques in there, and while I disagree with some of what he writes, and other things i would just do differently, it's still something I'd recommend-- to someone starting out with CSS and are building their first few pages. He points out flaws in example websites and how to avoid or fix them. Also, flex or liquid width pages, rounded corners, working with floats... I'm willing to give this book away to anyone in the EU. Outside the EU, I'd probably want some help with shipping. Whoever asks, gets it. I don't PayPal though-- I'm highly allergic to them. It's clearly a read-at-least-once book, but otherwise no damage or anything icky (I hate ordering a book and finding stains, esp food stains, that's just EW). It also comes with a SitePoint CSS poster, since I have no place to hang it up at work and I use a book as a reference anyway, not a poster. So, free CSS poster showing the box model, shortcuts, etc. First come first serve, I only have one of these. -pOes
Well, are techniques described in the book accessible? EDIT: I have read the review of the book and it seems pretty good.
They're generally geared in that direction, yeah. There's a whole chapter called No CSS? No images? No problem. One of the parts I kinda disagree with is the first part, about flexible text. It's good that he explains the problems with pixel text but then he does the font-size: 62.8% thing, and likes to set the font to "small" as well. I don't do either of these, just because it still makes the text too small on machines with higher dpi and the 1em=10px with 62.5% thing isn't actually true unless you're using a certain dpi machine with browser fonts defaulted to 16px anyway. There's also lots of comparisons to tables, and how much they suck and why, etc. It's not wholly geared to table-layout-writers but they are sitting in the front of his mind while he's writing this, obviously.
I also I agree, this book is great for beginners getting into semantic markup. Another great one is Pro CSS Techniques.
I recommended "transcending CSS" to a Designer colleague, and she got a lot out of it overall. Including CSS, standards, planning and good general web production practices. It has plenty of pretty pictures...