I was looking at some learning CSS & HTML Books Combined and I wanted to narrow it down to the best (2) that I could find which of the (7) listed do you think are the best (2) or maybe you have one you know not on the list.
Ok, 4 and then The Art and Science of CSS (sitepoint book) :).
I’ve only read a few chapters in the last one, though I skimmed later and it should be good, hopefuly
The ultimate CSS reference can dramatically increase your CSS knowledge, assuming you can memorize some details in there
I don’t know any of the books you have listed, so I’ll go ahead and recommend some which I’ve read.
Bulletproof Webdesign - Dan Cederholm
Web Standards Solutions - Dan Cederholm
HTML Dog: The Book - Patrick Griffiths
CSS Mastery - Andy Budd
HTML, XHTML & CSS - Visual Quickstart Guide - Elizabeth Castro
Max, Ironically I featured that website in Twitter a while back as a great place for younger people wanting to learn… we need more “web design for <one digit> year olds” sites. Get people interested in the field younger, more willing to learn and not get stuck in bad habits - I started learning to web design age 10 and I loved it!
The reason most of my recommendations are by Dan Cederholm is because he has such a fantastic writing style. D. Cederholm and E. Meyer are the authors I’ve learned from best, but we’re all different and it’s best that you find a library and read a few sample pages to see whether or not you like them. In terms of content, all books I’ve suggested are good.
As for SitePoint’s HTML/CSS books, I must admit to my shame that I haven’t read them yet except for the Ultimate CSS and HTML references by Tommy Olssen and Paul O’Brien.
I second this book as it’s the best suited title for people beginning both languages. As much as I like many of kohoutek’s recommendations, none of them are what you required (in the sense of covering HTML and CSS together extensively). I can also recommend the SitePoint References for HTML and CSS.
The SitePoint reference is the best single resource of its kind out there, but learning design and code from it is like trying to learn English from a dictionary. You should have the reference at the ready, but other sources (the Build Your Own Web Site and Head First HTML books, CSS Basics and HTMLDog’s tutorials, etc) will guide you through the first tricky steps of putting together a Web site.
Alex, when I was ten, we rode to school on the backs of pterodactyls and talked to each other using cans and string. We thought “The Flintstones” was a documentary about the rich people in the next county.
I had ordered and read this book, and was unhappy with some things in it— especially his recommendation to make the font-size on your web site too small for older people and those with bad vision in order to achieve a (mythical) correlation between pixels and ems.
Possibly he has fixed this in later editions. I ended up mailing the book to someone in Australia to get rid of it.
All this information has been very helpful although I now I have my Top (3) books in which I’m going to put them head to head and compare, if you have any more suggestions please let me know and thanks for the suggestions that I didn’t even know about …
You should have the reference at the ready, but other sources (the Build Your Own Web Site and Head First HTML books, CSS Basics and HTMLDog’s tutorials, etc) will guide you through the first tricky steps of putting together a Web site.