[wolco]

I've read that book. It has great design concepts and little design tricks.

It fails for providing the answers to 'how' is this done with code, here are coding tricks to get you there. It's more if you have a package page with three packages making the middle a slightly different color makes it stand out.

[viridi]

That goes for most of design books/resources but what makes this book a good one is that it is focused on how to improve the layout of web sites/applications in a practical way. But as always we mis the part how to implement it in html/css. Most html/css resources are about websites and not about webapplications unfortunately.