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Title: Clean, Dry, and to the Point
Review: This book is not bloated with theory...which is exactly why I like it. Yes I've been coding HTML for over 4 years, but it doesn't hurt that this book has a healthy (X)HTML section that I can turn to to remind myself of things that may have been forgotten. This book is a good technical reference manual that requires you to build your own examples. If you want beautiful color pictures of examples to accompany the mechanics of XHTML and CSS, I suggest you partner this book with any of Eric Meyer's publications. If I have one critism of the book, it's that it treats tableless lay out in a cursory fashion, but having a book by Meyer's should compensate for that. Final analysis: excellent learning source for beginners and a very good quick reference for pros.
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