I have to say it's excellent. A colleague read a chapter and pronounced it "the best and most lucid explanation I've ever seen of when to use <b> and when to use <strong>" and I agree; in the next few weeks I shall be putting into practice loads of his tips. I've already fancy-Dandified my header styles, removed presentational <br /> tags, and made them sleeker than Lisa Kudrow rolled in yoghurt. I will be marking up more semantically from now on. I understand the benefits and need; I always wanted to - just didn't know how to do all that CSS wizardry.
His tip on using the same css and specifying whether it's a 2 or 3 column page via an id on the body tag is… Read more
I've always liked friends of ED books - not least because I used to work for a sister company before they were bought out by Apress. The Foundation series has always been their biggest-seller, as it combines a comprehensive overview of a tool for the newcomer (either newbie to Dreamweaver, or newbie to this particular release) with a considered, intelligent tutorial style. Quality used to be an issue for friends of ED; fortunately this book marks a return to form. The marketing guy who sent me the book explained that friends of ED were bored at reading the same dry, rushed-out books written on beta code that always accompany a new Dreamweaver release and so took the decision to wait until… Read more
This is a wonderful book to anyone interested in how major cities change when industrialisation comes. The author has researched old photos of Bangkok and laboriously worked out where the subject is (if it still exists!) then taken a photo from the same vantage point, and placed them side-by-side, with a history of the place, anecdotes taken from old newspapers and the like. My favourite is a view of my old home in Pratunam market, taken from a biplane in the 40s, juxtaposed with a similar picture taken from the Baiyoke tower - with a note that the floor in the skyscraper it was taken from is higher than the biplane had flown to take the original.
