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Teach Yourself® HTML 4
Teach Yourself® HTML 4by Stephanie Cottrel Bryant, Stephanie Cottrell BryantPaperback: 491 pages Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc; ISBN: 0764575120; Bk&Cd-Rom edition (September 1999) Some people think, "If you build it, they will come." Though that's not always true on the Internet, you do have to build it first and that means learning HTML, which may seem intimidating. There are variations among browsers, subtleties using JavaScript and XML, and conflicts designing frames. But Teach Yourself® HTML 4 provides a visual format that presents step-by-step instructions, practice exercises, and insider tips to help you tackle the Web in no time. Dissect client-side scripting vs. server-side scripting, learn XML tips, and choose the best web server. Whatever you need to know in HTML 4, from the basics to the complicated, Teach Yourself® HTML 4 will give you the building blocks you want in order to attract the users you need for your web site. About the Author: Stephanie Cottrell Bryant has designed Web pages professionally since 1995. She lives in Scotts Valley, California, with her husband John, her cat Allegro, and two retired racing greyhounds named Harry and Hammer. She is an active member of the National Writer's Union Santa Cruz/Monterey Local and served as a delegate in 1998. Mrs. Bryant holds a Bachelor's Degree in Pre- and Early Modern Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She encourages readers with questions or comments... Customer Reviews Reviewer: A reader from Cincinnati, OH I purchased this book to start learning HTML. While there appears to be a lot of information here, I found so many errors and omissions that I gave up after 115 pages. I just couldn't follow the examples, and found the page layout to be too confusing. The index didn't help much either - often pointing to a term used only once in the book without any further explanation. I bought a different book (by Laura Lemay) and have had much more success with the Lemay book. Reviewer: spiro raftopoulos from Melbourne, Australia Yes, it seems disjointed at times and has several spelling errors. However, for beginners like myself I have learnt that the best learning books for computer Newbies comprise of plenty of page graphics (close to 50% of content in this one) and practice exercises(end of every chapter !). Cottrell's book achieves both well enough. Most computer books do not, atleast for HTML learning that I have examined. Cottrell's book urges you to complete end of chapter questions with answers at the back for critical comprehension checking. It secondly includes a working case study exercise at the end of each chapter e.g, Chapter 4 p.67 on Tables - Shows a case study homepage and asks : 'What are the design issues with this page ? How did the author create it ? Identify each table, and any special formatting you see in the table.(Hint: there are nested tables on this page.) When you're done, go to [specified website address] and view the source code.' Gives her answer at the back of the book too. I would have liked to have seen MORE practice exercises... but this book has been great to check my understanding as a newbie. Nice work. -Spiro Raftopoulos spiromlb@ozemail.com.au Reviewer: Jim Stone from Denver, CO This is one of the worst editing jobs I have ever seen in published material. There is sometimes no continuity, incomplete sentences, no follow on explanations; just a poorly written and poorly edited book. You can learn a little about HTML, but it's a lot of work. Reviewer: Otto Silver from Pretoria When the author explains something, eg. tables, she notes that it will be explained more in a named chapter, then she doesn't. I also found that she gives alot of incomplete information. All this might be because I expected more information. A plus is that she does explain some very useful consepts on desighn and compatability. |
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