HTML5 and CSS3, Illustrated Complete

I have this class starting on tuesday and didn't think I'd have the book by then.. but it showed up in the mail like 15 minutes ago and I'm super happy. book is brand new. they even sent a cute little bookmark. I appreciate this on so many levels. thanks!! Also this saved me like $100 as well, cause at the book store this book is new for 160.. so thanks again!

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It is the perfect book for my class.

Not a BAD book, but somewhat hard to follow when trying to look up specific properties. In general, it tends to avoid lists of possible properties in favor of highlighting a few and lightly talking about the rest in the text. A decent all round basic introduction, but not very usable as a reference work in my opinion... If you continue in this path, you probably won't keep the book around for long. Interestingly, it includes a very short chapter on JavaScript... Though it's more a very tiny primer and indication that more can be learned than anything else. That's not really bad for this kind of book though, because JavaScript can fill books all its own, and if you don't mention it, a new student may never know to look.

I have to agree with the middle-of-the-road reviews. It's not the worst introduction, and my purchase was a mandate for a for-credit course (meaning I had no choice but to acquire the book for at least a few months), but the book isn't always the easiest to follow. And as others have noted, it does contain confusion-inducing errors, the most recent having prompted me to stop working on the assignment and write this review. In one instance, the book is describing left and right positioning of elements, but the written instructions are the reverse of the graphic example's layout. Proofreader take a day off? Earlier in the same chapter, a CSS file name instruction is inconsistent with the already named file in the downloadable content, so none of my changes were appearing in the practice page browser view. Just sloppy. Given the price students pay for these books, they need to be in better shape when they go to print. Further, given that this book is about a subject requiring accuracy in detailed work, it's even more critical for the publisher to be detail-oriented.

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Very helpful book for my class. Thanks!

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