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sing CSS to create effective, gorgeous Web page
designs doesn’t have to be a tough job. If you’ve
been working with CSS but remain a bit baffled by it, or if
you’re trying it for the first time, you’ve chosen the right
book.Been confused by blizzards of new concepts: selectors,
inheritance, specificity, tree diagrams, embedded rules,
and plagues of locusts? Been turned off by books that
make almost everything seem hard to understand? Part I
of this book drops you gently into the world of CSS and
ensures that you have a good, solid understanding of what
CSS is, how it works, and all the great things you can do
with it.CSS offers the Web designer a variety of techniques that
are highly effective and, in most cases, very easy to under-
stand and use. I tell you which techniques aren’t useful
and should be avoided. I also demonstrate how to use the
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