I already knew CSS and was looking for something a little more in-depth. To its credit the book starts at an intro level but was thorough enough for me to gain a more critical understanding of certain things.

I didn't like that it made the usual mistake of not really going in-depth about the natural flow of HTML elements before talking about the display property and I'd really like a more thorough explanation of the float property from somebody out there and this book didn't step up to the plate.

I was also somewhat underwhelmed by the graphics provided. They looked kind of dated and lacked the wow factor that you get from modern CSS techniques.

If you're new to CSS but want a reasonably comprehensive walkthrough of all the standard properties, this isn't such a bad buy but I'm still looking for something better than this and I'm glad I got this one from the library.

One pissy bit of review crossfire: of freaking course it's assumed you know HTML. If you don't know HTML, you have no business building websites regardless of what Adobe would like you to believe. Learn HTML. Then learn CSS. Then call yourself a web designer.

It is an excellent book on learning Cascading Style Sheets for a web design class that I am taking. It was delivered on time and I liked that fact that I could track the progress of the delivery.

You open the book, start reading paragraphs, write a snippet of code, read another paragraph, write a block of code (that doesn't pertain to the snippet of code you just wrote) and repeat. The other author does not add and build on the previous code you wrote and doesn't build upwards. You don't gradually move upward in this book. It's all side-stepping and more reading then typing. I'm talking a page and half on a single line of code. The author sometimes confuses me by repeating a couple of words in the same sentence. Long, drawn-out, boring read, with minimal code, that doesn't get built up.

I took this book from the library with two other CSS books. This one has absolutely no pictures, I further browsed through the book looking for hidden gems. However, it did not seem to cover any topic better than the other books.

So, why would I torture myself reading a book on "style and design" if there are no pictures?

Having read TY HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, I have a good grasp on XHTML, and thought I had a decent grasp on CSS, but needed to learn more. I was very pleased with TY HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, so I decided to buy this book since it was another SAMS TY in 24 hours book. I should have read the reviews. The book totally put me to sleep (literally) and I couldn't follow it at all. I was thinking either I am an idiot, or this guy's writing style is horrendous. From what I've read the book is full of some serious errors, fortunately I didn't make it that far.
I have now ordered Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional by Simon Collison, which came highly recommended and looks quite good, and Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm, which looks like it is right up my alley, since I am very concerned with learning things the right way and following standards, and from what I've heard, the book sounds good.
I really wish I had read the reviews on this before wasting money, but hey, at least now I have a really great doorstop!