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Special Edition Using HTML 4
Special Edition Using HTML 4 (6th Edition)by Molly E. HolzschlagPaperback: 1109 pages Publisher: Que ISBN: 0789722674; 6th Bk&cdr edition (December 22, 1999) Special Edition Using HTML 4, Fifth Edition delivers holistic coverage of the key discipline of Web-site design. Author Molly E. Holzschlag combines the technical aspects of HTML and assorted technologies with general design methodologies and concepts. The book begins with the fundamentals but quickly moves on to cover more advanced concepts, such as cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, and XML. This coverage is not comprehensive but shows you the basics of these technologies and illustrates their importance. From here, the author takes you into the details of Web-page design, presenting the HTML language in context with overall design goals. The author goes on to show how to embed streaming audio and video, Java applets, and other multimedia packages, such as Macromedia's Shockwave, Director, and Flash documents. The book also covers server concepts such as Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Active Server Pages (ASP), and database connectivity, and includes an entire section on the complete process of designing and implementing a Web site. Additional resources include a comprehensive reference section on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and VBScript. The companion CD-ROM includes a number of demonstration versions of tools and browsers, including HTML editors and FTP utilities. --Stephen W. Plain. Book Description: Special Edition Using HTML 4 clearly defines the HTML language in its present form. By honing in on the daily realities of site design needs, the superfluous elements of the language are set aside, and real-world solutions are provided in a clear and concise fashion. You will learn which tools are best, how to code HTML, and the basic principles of Web publishing and graphic design. You will also learn how to take your sites into the next millennium with highly interactive and competitive... Customer Reviews Reviewer: Candle from King of Prussia, PA This is a good book to use to learn basic HTML. It is also a good book for a reference. I do have a few major problems with the book: 1. There is almost nothing in the book about forms and the controls that you can add to a form (input, select, and textareas)! This is such a major part of HTML. I am shocked there is nothing in the book about this topic. 2. This book reviews a lot of topic about the Internet besides HTML (ASP, XML, JavaScript, Databases, and many others.) Most of these extra topics are not covered very well at all. I wish that Molly had left out all of these extra topics and just concentrated on HTML. Instead of all of these extra info, she could have added at least on chapter on forms! Finally, I know that there is a Sixth Edition of this book out so I would buy the new one instead of buying this one. Reviewer: Michael Woznicki from Holland, MA. I have been working with and teaching HTML 4.X for over a year now and I finally found the go to reference book. Finally there is a manual that not only covers HTML 4 but also gives you step by step instructions as well. IN the book you will learn tags, attributes and values to masking a better web page. You find information about structure of the document, what to do to format and align text as well as lists. Also covered are topics like images, links, fonts, CSS, tables, frames, forms, JavaScript, DHTML, XHTML and XML, colors, graphics, image maps, animations, video audio, plugins, ASP, CGI, databases, e-commerce, intranets and extranets and finally publishing, this covers over 1,050 pages. The cd-rom that comes with the book included the following: DreamWeaver 2, Homesite 4, HotDog Pro 5.5, MapEdit 2.6, FireWorks2, Flash 4, Netscape 4.7, IE 5, ColdFusion 4.0.1 and other utilities. Most of the software on the cd is in demo version. Overall a very good book for the money. Reviewer: Ronald E. Dornbusch from Dayton, Ohio United States Believe this to be one of the best book I have read for learning and keeping up with HTML. You won't go wrong with this book. Very easy to read and understand. Great for the beginner and an excellent reference for the pro. Reviewer: mtincani from Columbus, Ohio United States This book attempts to do too much. The title is a misnomer -- it covers topics well beyond HTML, including JavaScript, CGI, WYSIWYG, and database -- none in sufficient detail to be meaningful. Lots of superficial overviews with bits of flashy code and screen shots. No beginner could pick up this book and implement any techniques without additional resources; no intermediate or expert builder will find enough to be satisfied. |
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