The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
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Before web designers had dependable tools for layout, many pages were built from tables and inline markup, so a site's look was tangled up with its content. The Zen of CSS Design shows what becomes possible when a page's structure is kept in HTML and its appearance is handled by cascading style sheets. Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag draw on the CSS Zen Garden, a project in which many designers took the same simple HTML file and restyled it into strikingly different pages.
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The book walks through those designs, explaining the thinking behind them and the techniques that made them work, from layout and typography to images and color. It is aimed at working designers who want to see how far the craft can go, and it treats visual design as a discipline with its own principles rather than a matter of decoration.
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