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HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS is yet another excellent book from Sitepoint. If you have either struggled with designing a website layout using CSS and have had to resort to using HTML tables, then this book is for you.

HTML Utopia is not a beginners HTML or CSS book and some experience is necessary. It is a book for anyone who is serious about designing magnificent websites using CSS. In the past, most web designers have used HTML tables for layouts. That is now deemed to be old fashioned.

Using CSS to separate code from content has many advantages: it uses less code, it is easier to update, it is faster for pages to download and it makes things possible that were not available when using tables. HTML Utopia also helps you create website that search engines can read and understand effectively, therefore making your websites search engine friendly.

HTML Utopia comes complete with a full sample website that you can download from Sitepoint. It also comes with one of the, if not the, most comprehensive CSS Property references ever written.

HTML Utopia is written by Rachel Andrew and Dan Shalfer. Rachel is the director of web solutions company, edgeofmyseat.com. Dan is a popular web design consultant. Both are CSS experts.

HTML Utopia is a book that will not disappoint. It is written in a clear, tutorial style and will not bore you to tears like many other technical books.

Contents include:

• Why not to use tables for layout
• When to use CSS and when not to use CSS
• Building one, two and three column layouts
• Building fixed width and liquid page layouts
• Using floating and absolutely positioned elements
• Using CSS inheritance
• Text styling
• Ensuring optimal web accessibility and standards compliance using CSS
• Designing sites that work in older browsers as well as newer browsers

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