Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (Head First)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman Used from £29.50 Pages: 504 (Paperback) ISBN: 1600330045 Pub: O'Reilly Media Pub date: 2006-09-30 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 107361

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Excellent learners book for designers and code newbies (0/0 people found this helpful)

Oh I wish I'd bought this book first! I've numerous HTML and CSS books on my shelves, but this is the book for learning just how to. It teaches good practice from the start, providing an excellent foundation for an area that is going to demand cleaner and compliant code.

It isn't a reference book: it's mission is to teach and it does so very well indeed. If you prefer to learn visually and actively, you will find this book particularly engaging.

Buy the pocket O'Reillys for reference, or the O'Reilly CSS and XHTML tomes (which are actually very accessible once you've worked through this book).

Reaches the parts other books can't (2/2 people found this helpful)

I have just finished working through the book. I've created my first Web Site, and it's validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict with good CSS styling and accessibility! I didn't have had the expertise or confidence to do this previously, but I can do it by hand now with only a text editor (and a little bit of help from the book).

This is my first Head First book. The quirky style helps to get the information into your head and the numerous worked examples give confidence and a reluctance to stop at just ordinary, when extraordinary is not much further along. Top marks!

Brilliant! (2/2 people found this helpful)

I love this book. I am new to this and bought 3-4 books and this is the one that has helped me the most. It explains the basics claerly, without jargon, and structures the leerning in a way that really suited me. The puzzles and 'interviews' seem irrelevant until you do them and realise later that you have remembered what you learnt from them. Highly recommended for those new to HTML and CSS.

Fantastic Intro to HTML & CSS (2/2 people found this helpful)

Really wonderful introduction to the world of HTML and CSS. Very engaging style and great tips.

Hard to read due to layout and waflle (4/8 people found this helpful)

I found this book incredibly difficult to read as it is stuffed with off-content waffle.

I would frequently read the main paragraph (waffle) then a major point would be written in "hand-writing" in the column, but sometimes it's the other way around, where jokes and other useless time wasting print is in "hand-writing" in the column and the main point in is the main text.

If you want to read something that is concise and to the point on this subject, do NOT buy this book.

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