Thinking in CSS

by Aravind Shenoy

You will gain an intermediate knowledge of CSS after reading this book. Instead of wandering through loads of theory, we will understand CSS more practically so that we can design a webpage using CSS. We have used Notepad for the examples in this book. Alternatively, you can also use Notepad++ or any advanced editor. All that you need to do is copy the code and paste it into Notepad. Upon execution, you will get the output as depicted in the screenshots. Screenshots are provided for each sample code.

Coding gets better with practice. The examples in this book are compatible with almost every browser. Instead of using the verbatim code, you can modify the code and see the change in the output, thereby understanding the subtle nuances of CSS. By the end of the book, with practice, you can achieve better things and get more acquainted with CSS.

Genres: Coding, Computers, Technology, Nonfiction, Reference

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 14, 2014

About the author

A Content Specialist by profession, Aravind Shenoy’s core interests are Web Design, Marketing, Content Writing, Content Development, and Business Analysis. A music buff - he loves listening to Alternative, Electronic, and Techno-industrial stuff. ATB, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Darude, Fragma, Bomfunk MC's, and Jamiroquai rule his playlists. An engineering graduate from the Manipal Institute of Technology and author of several books, he feels “The most important thing is to be happy - it’s all that matters. After all, we are here for a good time, not a long time".

Reviews

[Darian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beginner Necessities

Core understanding of crucial CSS. The concepts here apply to CSS 2 and 3. You won't get very far in CSS designs unless you don't know everything in this book. I would teach from this book and call the class "The basics of CSS" ... Book was free so I read it ... in about 2 minutes...

[Arunraj Nair · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good one for refreshing basics

All the major elements are covered in appropriate detail. One should not expect any detailed explanation of CSS stuff here though.

[Krsiak Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

old

[Chris Aldrich · Rating 2 out of 5]

While short, simple, and providing some useful examples, this book is purely for the very beginner. With this in mind it still skips some of the basics and presumes one knows something about the general format and syntax of CSS or that one will pick it up solely through examples.

Though I only breezed through it quickly, it appeared that one or two of the coding examples had issues in places which is more likely to confuse the beginning audience it's geared to serve. (Things like classes and ids that were in the code, but never used.) I wish it had had some more thorough explanation and some more complex examples for everyday or common usages to make it more beneficial to the beginning user.

The overuse of examples which featured Packt Publishing (and seemed to serve more as an advertisement than examples) were somewhat grating after a while.

I far preferred the CSS chapters from Robin Nixon's Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites. CSS and Documents was also very good (and very thorough), but only covered a sub-portion of the broader topic.

I'll mention that I got my e-book copy for free on Amazon.