- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 6 edition (16 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321430840
- ISBN-13: 978-0321430847
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 17.8 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
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Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
- Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.
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Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
- Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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I've had several editions of this book and they're the best of the best. In fact, it's how I started out after I'd read all the other confusing books out there and I still use it because virtually EVERYTHING is covered including kerning, word-spacing and other odds and ends that you normally don't come across.
What's so great about this book?? Clarity and simplicity. She explains everything in detail and you can pick out what you want, when you want. No need to start from the beginning and work your way through - just find the section you need and get started.
This book is in colour, too. Every example has a detailed, friendly picture of a page that she (presumably) made herself and next to it will be the appropriate HTML. Every example also has real life tips, for example on the difference between the browsers (particularly bad old non-compliant IE).
A list of the chapters:
Intro (CSS and browser support, XHTML vs HTML)
1 - Web page building blocks (URLS, Doctypes)
2 - Working with Web Page Files
3 - Basic (X) HTML structure
4 - Basic (X) HTML formatting
5 - Images
6 - Links
7 - Style sheet building blocks
8 - Working with style sheet files
9 - Defining selectors
10 - formatting with styles
11 - Layout with styles
12 - dynamic effects with styles
13 - style sheets for handhelds
14 - style sheets for printing
15 - Lists
16 - Tables
17 - forms
18 - Video, auio and other multimedia
19 - scripts
20 - a taste of javascript
21 - symbols and non english characters
22 - testing and debugging webpages
23 - publishing your pages on the web
24 - getting people to visit
25 - syndication and podcasting
There are some very useful reference apendices at the end, and a colour chart.
My only gripe is that I couldn't find anything about iframes, but I have an old copy of her book and that's in there.
As far as I'm concerned this is the only book on HTML / XHTML and every time she brings out a new version I buy it, as it's always up to date.
Brilliant!
What's so great about this book?? Clarity and simplicity. She explains everything in detail and you can pick out what you want, when you want. No need to start from the beginning and work your way through - just find the section you need and get started.
This book is in colour, too. Every example has a detailed, friendly picture of a page that she (presumably) made herself and next to it will be the appropriate HTML. Every example also has real life tips, for example on the difference between the browsers (particularly bad old non-compliant IE).
A list of the chapters:
Intro (CSS and browser support, XHTML vs HTML)
1 - Web page building blocks (URLS, Doctypes)
2 - Working with Web Page Files
3 - Basic (X) HTML structure
4 - Basic (X) HTML formatting
5 - Images
6 - Links
7 - Style sheet building blocks
8 - Working with style sheet files
9 - Defining selectors
10 - formatting with styles
11 - Layout with styles
12 - dynamic effects with styles
13 - style sheets for handhelds
14 - style sheets for printing
15 - Lists
16 - Tables
17 - forms
18 - Video, auio and other multimedia
19 - scripts
20 - a taste of javascript
21 - symbols and non english characters
22 - testing and debugging webpages
23 - publishing your pages on the web
24 - getting people to visit
25 - syndication and podcasting
There are some very useful reference apendices at the end, and a colour chart.
My only gripe is that I couldn't find anything about iframes, but I have an old copy of her book and that's in there.
As far as I'm concerned this is the only book on HTML / XHTML and every time she brings out a new version I buy it, as it's always up to date.
Brilliant!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I didn't know anything about HTML or XHTML and only knew a very tiny bit of CSS before I bought this book, after buying it and reading it I now know a wealth of information about XHTML, HTML, CSS and web standards. This book is a must buy for anyone who is considering web design. It has everything you need to learn, very clear, detailed but understandable explanations of a veriety of XHTML HTML and CSS tags along with pictures to illustrate how each of these tags could be used. All in all I think this book was well worth it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After mistakenly buying two other beginners books on learning to create web sites I bought this one. I found it essential reading as a beginner and still use it as my essential reference book. It provides an excellent basis for learning the basics of modern web page design enabling the reader to create clear, easily up-datable sites that a professional would not be ashamed of. No matter to what level you progress in web design, you will not need to re-learn anything you learned from Elizabeth Castro's book. If I lost all my computer books this would still be my first web book re-purchase. I cannot say better than that.
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Great Introduction to Web Programming
This is one of the best introduction to XHTML and CSS books on web programming I have found.
It is a bit short however it just contains useful code examples and is a... Read more
It is a bit short however it just contains useful code examples and is a... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Daniel Worrall
Excellent and clear introduction
Found this book a really excellent guide - had been working with html for some time but didn't really understand the principles - this enabled everything to fall into place! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Alison
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Find it hard to get to grips, had the promise, did not think it delivered got disillusioned very early on, have not picked it up since, not saying it's a bad or rubbish book only... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Linnaeus
Easy to follow and understand
I'm a newbie to HTML etc and found this a very good manual to get me started with the minimum of fuss. Clear advice and a good progression. Read more
Published 13 months ago by sandybays
Great book - especially for first time html and css-ers
Having never done any web designing before, this book introduces the basics in a very straight-forward and comprehensive way. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Lucie
Good book poor service on eBook
This is a very good book which had me writing a site from scratch by the time I had read it through. The problem is with the eBook system. Read more
Published 14 months ago by John Mason
Very good book for learning HTML
I was recommended this book at university.
Great book, explains everything in plain english, Ive had previous html books but for some reason this one made things easier to... Read more
Great book, explains everything in plain english, Ive had previous html books but for some reason this one made things easier to... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Jason Williams
Good intel, badly written
I have just finished my first website, with help from Elizabeth Castro's book. The information is mostly there on how to write HTML and CSS, but along the way I was confused and... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. Richard I. Calvert
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The product was delivered in a timely manner and exactly as described. What I was suprised about was the content of the product. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Firechild
Have your web pages looking professional in minutes
Having designed and built my own 36-page website seven years ago. It was time for a new-look.
No longer did I want frames. Read more
No longer did I want frames. Read more
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