Another fine book from Dan Cederholm. This time around he divvies a typical web page down to its components — text, navigation, boxes and rows and the layout itself and explains and demonstrates the most bulletproof way of implementing them in a standards-compliant way.

In each chapter he’ll pluck a real-world example to deconstruct, tell you why it’s not bulletproof and offer a rebuild in a very easy to follow manner using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He’ll then explain why his solution is bulletproof.

There’s something here for everyone, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on the CSS front but I’ve said “Ohhhh, that’s neat” a few times already (I’m hopping around the book). Which is another point, it’s very accessible in that respect — no reading chapters 1 to 4 before tackling the issues presented in chapter 5 (hypothetical use of numbers).

Beginner or expert alike, I think you’ll like this book a lot.

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