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5.0 out of 5 stars
The best html guide I have come across!, 28 Oct 2003
This review is from: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
To begin with I was a little dawnted by the huge index page and all the unrecognisable jargon. I was vaguely familiar with html and web design before I bought this book and found the structure suited my capabilities. The book starts by introducing the easier techniques and running through to the more difficult html and xhtml. This structure would allow novices through to more accomplished web designers to pick the book up at the level necessary. I have read the book through twice and have been able to grasp all of the methods due to the excellent layout of the pages. Each html technique has a clearly defined heading, a description of the technique, the relevant html code layed out as you would in your web design package and finally the finished page to give you an ideology of pages you can design through this book. Although I now consider myself to be quite competant with html, the HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide is never far away. Due to the books extensive guide and glossary it is ideal to be used as a reference source. This book is excellent for learning html and since I have progressed to other similar guides for dhtml and believe this series has a winning formula for learning web design
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good HTML introduction, 10 Aug 2004
This review is from: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
I got this having some familiarity with HTML but wanting to know how to move further with XHTML/CSS. As an introduction to HTML or as a way of moving away from the very basics I would recommend it. I also would disagree with the reviewer that compared this to a reference book - I have an (old) HTML reference book and this isnt that at all! It's a good introduction to all things web-development oriented and has plenty of clear diagrams and descriptions - it's pretty terse, but I think in benefits from that. You dont have to wade through a lot of verbiage before getting down to the nuts and bolts. However, only give it four stars because I think the CSS reference in the title is a little misleading. There is coverage of this, enough to give you a basic grounding, but it's only a part of the book. There are also chapters on Tables, Frames (euugh!), Javascript, WML and just about every other aspect of web page development you might be interested in. I'd say the CSS parts only take up about 10% of the book. If you're looking a more thorough guide to standards-based web development and CSS, then you might be better looking elsewhere. However if you're less experienced and are happy with getting stuck straight into the code then I'd recommend it.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent guide to html, 10 July 2003
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This review is from: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS. (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
I bought this book without any knowledge of html/xhtml... It gives a good understanding of html, xhtml and stylesheets, allowing the creation of good coded web pages. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about html. Excellent for starters and equally excellent for advanced designers that need a reference book as its very well constructed and indexed. Written very well by Elizabeth in a understandable language.
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