Saturday, July 23, 2005

The ZEN of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter)

Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag

Published by: Peachpit Press on February 2005

What a brilliant idea to generate interest in CSS: Build a page with HTML and loads of divisions and markup and then ask people to submit CSS to style it. The result is the beautiful Zen garden web site.

The book sets out to enlighten us with the variety of styles possible. Some are very outlandish but I must say, you can learn some very clever techniques from this book. The authors are the creators of a number of styles for the web site.

Look at this book at Amazon

Here could be some more books that are just as useful

But they may not be in my bookshelf

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 3rd Edition: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)

CSS: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design: The Ultimate Guide to Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design

Designing with Web Standards (Voices That Matter)

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design (Voices That Matter)

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions 2nd Edition