Book Review: The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
I purchased The Zen of CSS Design soon after I completed my degree in visual communication. Fatigued by the theory heavy books I had read in school, I was hoping for a project based resource to help me produce quality results quickly. As I read, it quickly became clear that this book is a conceptual analysis of CSS design best practices rather than a step-by-step project manual. Opting for a simpler approach, I left The Zen of CSS Design to moulder in the dust of my bookcase for a few months an moved on to other prescriptive step-by-step volumes.
When a designer friend mentioned how The Zen of CSS Design had helped him think creatively about approaching design projects, I picked it up once more. This time, I didn’t put it down.
Though it took me two attempts to discover the value of this book, I would like to thank Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag for creating a book on a programming language that is not merely a technical reference or prescriptive how-to manual. The Zen of CSS Design helps me to plan, create and problem solve modern Web designs while thinking in CSS.
- Authors: Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press (February 17, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 0321303474
- List Price: $39.99
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