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HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)
HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)by Elizabeth CastroPaperback: 384 pages Publisher: Peachpit Press ISBN: 0201354934; 4th edition (October 20, 1999) "Perhaps the best-written HTML tutorial ever." This book occupies a unique spot in my opinion. It's "the competition." All other HTML/Web page learning or how-to books are trying to knock the crown from this book's head. While it may not be for everyone, it just does such a superb job that it defines the field. Congratulations, Elizabeth. This is what I could classify as a true intermediate or advanced book. Elizabeth Castro doesn't waste time or steps trying to teach a newbie how to click here or create a text file. In fact, so much is assumed that this really can't be called a beginner book at all. So, if you know what you're doing or what you want, this book will serve you well. The whole HTML thing is broken down into tasks: formatting, text, layout commands, cascading style sheets--the whole nine yards. Then individual HTML commands or tasks are illustrated one to a page. The steps fall down the outside of the page; illustrations line the page's inside. While this is all a great way to learn HTML, I can still find room for improvement--though not at the expense of the format. For example, a reference or tear-out card would have been handy. And some topics, especially JavaScript, are glossed over too quickly to be useful. From personal experience, I know that some topics, such as FTP, could use even more hands-on examples. If you "get it" when it comes to computers, and are ready to do some down-and-dirty HTML coding (and I'm not talking lame-old FrontPage here), this book will teach you the basics in no time. It will provide a firm foundation upon which you can easily build your Web pages for the future. --Dan Gookin Book News, Inc.: A tutorial for novices and a reference for experienced users, featuring step-by-step instruction, tips, troubleshooting advice, and a visual approach with screenshots and code examples. This fourth edition contains a new debugging chapter, expanded coverage of cascading style sheets, a new section on attracting visitors to a web page, and a set of CGI scripts for processing forms. Customer Reviews Reviewer: schapel from Iowa City, IA USA I've been doing some HTML coding over the past five years and recently delved into learning HTML 4.01, XHTML, CSS, and some of the other newer technologies. After reading some more technical books, I looked at this one to see why it's so popular. It's easy to see why. All the basics of HTML and related technologies such as graphics, multimedia, and CSS are explained very simply with tons of examples HTML code and screenshots of browsers. Now for the downside of the book: it's fairly short but covers a lot of topics. This means there is very little depth to the discussion, and lots of details are left out. If you're just getting started with HTML, that's probably appropriate. But after you digest a good chunk of this book, you'll want to get a meatier HTML or web design book and go back and fill in the missing pieces. One more nit about this book: in my years of dealing with HTML, I've too often run across an HTML page that worked great in some browsers, but failed miserably on another. These failures included crashing the browser and printing thousands of pages to the printer! In every case, simply validating the HTML with the W3C validator would have picked up the problem right away. This book does mention using the validator, but only after you've noticed a problem. Take my advice: after getting each HTML page to look good in one browser, validate it! You'll save yourself and others lots of trouble. Reviewer: Randy Ringstad from Reno, Nevada First of all, many books go into way too much detail in explaining the concepts of HTML. Most of the material in the thousand-pagers are useless. Ms. Castro cuts to the chase, presenting brief and accurate explainations of HTML tags, style sheets, and the creation and use of images that work on the web. The only other book on HTML that I've purchased in the past were the "for Dummies" volumes a few years ago. I put them down shortly after being bored to tears and severly discouraged. HTML seemed like a vast subject. In fact, it's the easiest language (if you can call it that)to learn on a computer. ANYBODY can write HTML code and Ms. Castro proves it in this book. A wealth of examples is provided on her website for each chapter. Don't miss out on this. WYSIWYG web site programs are nice. But, the real control comes from coding the HTML (with a WYSIWYG editor if you wish). You can do it. This is the book to get. Note to WordPerfect users: if you've ever used the Reveal Codes command in WordPerfect (I used ver 5.2 long ago), then HTML will come easily for you. Reviewer: Derek from USA I got this book not to learn html, but as a review. I got lazy and used Dreamweaver for awhile and this was a great buy. HTML is the perfect thing to learn with a book like this. Reviewer: Andrew Hilliard from Maryville, TN United States Back I'd say two and half years ago when I was 13, my friend started building websites. Well he wasn't really my friend exactly we just had a few good conversations. And he never recommended me what book too get so I winged it and told my parents to get this book HTML4 by Elizabeth Castro. I thank god I picked this book. This gets you right into making your first webpage/website. The book is simply amazing, I was hooked imediatly, it's very easy too understand Castro does a GREAT job of explaining things. It has everything you need to know about HTML. Nesting tables, frames, even some JavaScript, and CSS is also in the book, which I found very useful. The book is also a great refrence book too keep near by. I use it all the time for symbol codes, or how to do a frameset, since I don't use frames that often. I'm 15 now and this book has influenced me to go look for other books by PeachPit, XML, Perl & CGI, DHTML & CSS, JavaScript 3, and the one I just purchased recently Java 2 for WWW. PeachPit and Castro and the whole team do a great job on getting you started right away. I think I would only buy PeachPit Visual QuickStart Guide books!... |
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