The strengths of this book are:
1) Style /layout: Learning can be fun is a cliche but you should read this book to know what it really meant.
2) Content: While this was the first technical book in computers I have actually finished to last, means that it was fun learning the essentials in this topic.

The book effectively utilizes example codes that one can download from the Headfirst lab web-site and tinker with it.

The exercises and the "sharpen your pencils" questions are very apt to re...

One thing this book really helped me appreciate was that it is our approach to things that makes them interesting or dull. After having been in the rat race of academia for verry long I just gave up on learning any form of code work. It was very difficult to convince my brain the importance of it (Yes. Believe me no skill every goes waste)

This book just doesn't teach you HTML/CSS. It does more. It teaches you how to learn. It kindles a fire. And once you have a flame burning.. learning bec...

Its a common perception of CSS being boring but this book makes it so interesting and makes you wanna read more.
Do yourself a favor and go by this book,it'll clear many misconceptions you might have along with explaining you CSS(and of course,html too) in a way that sticks with you.

This may be the best introduction you will ever find to CSS. Rather than going for everything, this book teaches the most useful subset and in such a way that you will have a hard time forgetting it.
The chapter on XHTML may be irrelevant now that HTML5 will be the new specification, but still, the coverage of HTML is a good read.