HTML for the World Wide Web: with XHTML and CSS (Visual QuickStart Guides) |
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Author:
Elizabeth Castro
By Peachpit Press
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £21.99
Our Price: £14.08
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.74
EAN: 9780321430847
ISBN: 0321430840
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2006-08-31
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press |
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 Difficult read, 2008-02-10
I'm afraid I have to agree with other reviewers that have criticised the writing style of the author in this book. She seems to be targeting the beginner with an introduction of how the internet and world wide web evolved and what a web page is but then the actual instructions dive right in at a deep end of assumed knowledge. I have some knowledge of computing but am not an expert by any means. I bought this to accompany an evening class I am attending but I am finding it a hard read. Not one for the complete beginner but might work as a useful reference book when I acquire a bit more knowledge.
For Beginners Great, for the more experienced...not so much!, 2008-12-16
This is a good start learning book - it covers all the basics and essentials of learning HTML and CSS. However, I have found that when you already have a certain amount of knowledge and you are looking for a book that you can dip into like:
Hmm - I wonder how I can get this effect....
this isn't really the sort of book you can do that with, although it does have a reasonably good index and there is a really good colour table at the back - although you can get that info straight off the internet, which is what I have to do most of the time anyway, because the book is always somewhere else when I need it!
So four stars because it is good for the first five minutes of learning HTML, but after that, a little useless!
Fantastic and so easy to follow, 2008-11-28
Absolutely brilliant book. I have just started doing web coding and having enevr done it before I was completely lost in class and not only that I couldn't follow what the tutor was saying and the practicals because I found it so tediously boring, I thought there was NO hope for me ever being able to train my mind to concentrate on boring XHTML.
Anyway after getting this book I am transformed! I read it on the way to uni read it on the way back and even read it in bed that night it is great. Very informative and so clear as well. I have quite a short attention span and get bored easily but the pictures visualisations of what the author is talkign about keeps you readind and shows you examples of what you can do. There isn't loads of text on every page either, it's wrote in managable, digestable chunks and is explained in simple terms. There's also further information about the thing she's talkign about further down the page tips and where it can't be used, what you can't do with it etc.
I would recommend this book to everyone and 3 of my classmates are buying it as well now after reading mine.
from a very keen newbe to HTML and CSS, 2008-02-13
I can not recommend this book highly enough. While I am sure the professionals find it's lay out too simple. IT WAS IDEAL FOR ME! I have had it now 3 weeks and have just published my first web site and it looks good!! Can't believe it!
Clear concise layout with easy to follow instructions on things that really are complicated. (Trust me I have three other books that make it look like code that only people with degrees in computer science could understand!)
If you can't get a basic page up and run by the end of this book I strongly recommend you pay someone to do it for you.
It has made me keen enough to perhaps get a book that goes into some of the areas in more detail now that I have the grounding knowledge.
But saying that I still think this book will always be close to hand as a quick reference point for many years to come.....
Very Good Book, 2008-08-13
A very good book for beginners.Its not the book that will make you expert but it helps you to understand how the basics of HTML works.Also very well written!
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