Opinions on book "Beginning CSS"

[ccardimon]

What is your opinion on "Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design" ? Is there a better book for beginners?

[JohnB]

I can recommend CSS The Missing Manual (2nd edition). It's well thought out, starts you at the beginning, and gets you up to speed pretty well, with concepts explained and lots of accompanying examples and exercises. And the exercises are available for download, so you don't find yourself typing in all of the needed code. It also has a good index for jumping around when you need to return to it as a reference. There is a section on print media (your other post).

- John

[ccardimon]

Thank you, John. I appreciate your recommendation. I just downloaded the free PDF.

[RamonS]

The free PDF? I was intrigued and only found one that contains one chapter.

[ccardimon]

Try this:
http://www.4shared.com/office/peElZaYf/ ... nd_Ed.html

[RamonS]

That worked after a detour to bugmenot. Thanks for the link!

[JohnB]

Ugh.

It can be had for $20.99 at Amazon (author gets paid). There is a cheaper eReader version there also. O'Reilly has PDF but it's more $$ than the hard copy at Amazon.