- Paperback: 700 pages
- Publisher: QUE; 1 edition (14 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789727315
- ISBN-13: 978-0789727312
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.7 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,479,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Special Edition Using HTML & XHTML is a comprehensive Web publishing reference, providing practical solutions to real-world Web development problems. Author Molly Holzschlag starts by explaining how XHTML differs from HTML and why it's necessary, but quickly moves beyond a mere comparison of the differences. The reader learns which tools are best, how to code HTML & XHTML, and the basic principles of Web publishing and graphic design. The book also shows how to integrate graphics, stylesheets, frames and multimedia into XHTML Web pages. Later chapters cover XHTML's relationship to XML and creating content for alternative devices including pagers, cell phones, and hand held devices.
About the Author
A writer, instructor, and designer, Molly E. Holzschlag brings attitude and enthusiasm to books, magazines, classrooms, and Web sites. Honored by Webgrrls as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web, Molly has spent over a decade working in the online world. She has written 20 books on HTML and Web design and development topics, including the best-selling Special Edition Using HTML 4.0 and the internationally acclaimed Web by Design.
Molly's popular column of 2 1/2 years, "Integrated Design," appeared monthly in the internationally popular WebTechniques Magazine, until the magazine's closing in early 2002. Molly served for a year as the executive editor of Web Review, and has contributed features and columns to Adobe Studios, Adobe.com, Builder.Com, Digital Chicago, Digital New York, IBM developerWorks, MacWorld, MSDN, PC Magazine, and other developer publications.
When offline, Molly plays guitar and sings in the original acoustic duo Courage Sisters. For books, giveaways, training, speaking events, and other items of fun and interest, drop by her Web site at (where else?) http://www.molly.com.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
In a perfect world...
12 Nov 2002
Format:Paperback
If, as I recently did, you were to buy Molly Holzschlag's outstanding "Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML" and "Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design," you might wonder if you had awoken on some strange planet in which pricey web books were actually worth the money, and tech authors wrote at a level that both challenged, elucidated, and entertained.
Molly Holzschlag's book, simply put, succeeds on every possible level. The style is clear and personable and the information is cogently and logically presented. As a web standards "insider," she gives you the history behind the development of markup languages rather than just throwing out the standard grid of what breaks in which browsers -- because, as this book so clearly demonstrates, the "why" matters a great deal, and you can't really get your mind around that without a few little history lessons along the way.
But it is not just a collection of dry facts and background info; the book is hands-on all the way, and constantly uses work-along examples to teach how to use XHTML to author web pages.
As Holzschlag states in the intro, the perfect reader for this book is the intermediate user -- someone who has used HTML before, and is quite familiar with web authoring, but maybe wishes to finally learn to do things the "right way," now that the W3C has made some headway with specifications. The book hits its intended audience mark dead on. The info is not dumbed down, yet important concepts are explained in detail. If you encounter a concept that is over your head, chances are there will be a sidebar link to the W3C website for additional information you need to catch up. This seems to me a very good compromise between leaving seasoned professionals bored, and lower-level intermediates in the dust.
There are several excellent reference charts (such as for ASCII symbols, character sets), and a comprehensive XHTML tag reference, making this a perfect all-around desk reference as well as a tool for getting up to speed on XHTML.
I believe this book would be particularly useful for the web designer wishing to move towards using XHTML for content and CSS for style and layout. In that case, I suggest "Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design" as a companion volume to round out the CSS side of things (Actually, Holzschlag herself references Meyer's book several times).
If you really want to make the switch to cleaner markup, and prepare yourself for what's coming on the web (and if you don't think you want to, this book might also convince you why you *should* want to...) you could hardly do better than this book.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Confusing, but a good reference.
26 Nov 2004
Format:Paperback
This book, like most other primers on XHTML, tries to take the minor differences between standard HTML and XHTML, and turn it into a full blown manuscript. The truth is, if you already know HTML, then you already know most of what you need for XHTML.
XHTML differs little from HTML, except for the following points (I'm using brackets here on purpose so as not to mark up this review) :
- XHTML is case sensitive, e.g. the tags [h1] and [H1] are not equivalent.
- tags must be nested properly, e.g. [b][i]your text here[/b][/i] is incorrect in a "well formed" document.
- certain tags that take no attributes must be terminated with a slash, e.g. [br /]
- XHTML can use "modules" (and good luck trying to understand that chapter in the book).
That's about all you need to know about XHTML. Throw in a DTD definition and you're done. But the book does a poor job of explaining just what a DTD is and why you need one, other than the XML gods just saying you need one.
Much of the book is also C.I.P.U. to HTML users. CSS is given two short chapters with little explanation of why you need CSS and how it can help you manage your web pages. And then it's onto XML, with the same lack of explanation. But, as with most CSS and XML primers, this is typically the case. Everybody is touting the value of XML, but almost nobody can tell you why or how to use this new technology. And this book is no different.
I gave the book two stars because of its one outstanding feature, the references in Appendix C & D. The book is worth having around just for those two sections. In that sense you might want to pick up a used copy for much less than a new one.
XHTML differs little from HTML, except for the following points (I'm using brackets here on purpose so as not to mark up this review) :
- XHTML is case sensitive, e.g. the tags [h1] and [H1] are not equivalent.
- tags must be nested properly, e.g. [b][i]your text here[/b][/i] is incorrect in a "well formed" document.
- certain tags that take no attributes must be terminated with a slash, e.g. [br /]
- XHTML can use "modules" (and good luck trying to understand that chapter in the book).
That's about all you need to know about XHTML. Throw in a DTD definition and you're done. But the book does a poor job of explaining just what a DTD is and why you need one, other than the XML gods just saying you need one.
Much of the book is also C.I.P.U. to HTML users. CSS is given two short chapters with little explanation of why you need CSS and how it can help you manage your web pages. And then it's onto XML, with the same lack of explanation. But, as with most CSS and XML primers, this is typically the case. Everybody is touting the value of XML, but almost nobody can tell you why or how to use this new technology. And this book is no different.
I gave the book two stars because of its one outstanding feature, the references in Appendix C & D. The book is worth having around just for those two sections. In that sense you might want to pick up a used copy for much less than a new one.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
it was ok...
4 Nov 2002
Format:Paperback
This book did a great job describing xhtml,and like most special edition books I really liked. It was easy to understand. However, they didn't do the best describing modularization. I understood it more when I read it on w3.org. It also should've gone a bit further. I was especially disappointed it didn't say anything about xforms which was like the coolest part of xhtml. That doesn't this book isn't worth the money though. Its a great reference, but if you're looking to harness the full potential of xhtml and its newer features go elsewhere.
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