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Elizabeth Castro
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0201354934
Pub: Peachpit Press
Pub date: 1999-11-16
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 94055
Editorial Review:
Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or, in the most economical fashion, you write your own code out in a text file, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide will teach you what you need to know quickly.
The book covers the latest specifications of HTML 4 set by the World Wide Web Consortium, from the most basic tags that place text, images and links on the page to more complex ones that set up tables, frames or forms. New to this fourth edition, the book provides a chapter on debugging, including browser compatibility issues, expanded sections on Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, and CGI scripts for use with forms.
As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, HTML 4 features clear and concise instructions side-by-side with well-captioned illustrations and screenshots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a good reference book for intermediate users who are already familiar with basic HTML but need help with specific topics.
The book also includes extensive and useful appendices. One offers a chart that describes each tag (along with its compatibility with Netscape Navigator and/or Internet Explorer.) Other appendices show the code for special symbols, hexadecimal equivalents for RGB colours and a comparison chart for some of the HTML editors on the market. All in all, this is the perfect desktop reference for Web designers. --Angelynn Grant, Amazon.com
Topics covered: HTML code for creating Web pages, including formatting text, images, links, colours, tables, frames, forms, embedded multimedia clips, cascading style sheets, basic javascript actions like rollovers, finer points like drop caps and page counters, debugging code, browser compatibility issues, publishing pages on the internet, registering with search engines. --Sarah Taylor
Reader Reviews:
Great book (3/3 people found this helpful)
This was the first book I bought to be able to learn HTML and do web design. I still use it as a referance and think it can teach you a lot about HTML and basic design.
Id recommed it to any one who was starting out!
Castro rocks (7/7 people found this helpful)
A lot of HTML guides out there are woefully outdated (and not particularly clear either). This book is in its fifth edition, so she must be doing something right! But she has brought out an even easier and clearer guide which doesn't seem to be available yet on Amazon, but which I heartily recommend for newbies - 'Creating a Web page in HTML' . This slim volume is the best introduction to creating web pages I have seen and is produced with extensive visuals and screenshots (both Windows and Mac) in full colour. It is thoroughly up to date and provides clear explanations and examples of Style Sheets, Colours, navigaton, images and everything else you need to get a basic web site online. After mastering this book you can then move on to HTML 4 for the WWW, which, by the way, Castro points out is a *reference* book. Oh, there's a companion website too.
Not reading this book costs hours in tinker time. (3/3 people found this helpful)
I like to tinker around with new codes to see if I can learn their pattern or logic before reading. This time it backfired on me. Several places I could have saved time from rewriting and designing the site were pointed out in this book. The most glaring (and I hate to admit it) boo boo was pointed out on page 41 where it says that word processors have a "save as html" option and do not use it. The code kept disappearing on me and I thought it was either bad syntax or a bad word processor. It never dawned on me that this option was for converting word documents to html. I like her attitude about using the individual html descriptors in place of CSS. It makes more sense to have the control need the object. CSS has a COBOL attitude in having everything laid out in a section separate form the code. Bottom line html is the lowest common denominator and can be used in any situation. And this book is the clearest on how and why to use it.
Excellent Book (9/9 people found this helpful)
Before reading this book my understanding of HTML was very limited, however now I can understand the structure of a HTML page, I can see what its meant to do and how it is doing it.
Prior to reading the book, my web design was all done via FrontPage, I ignored the HTML code. This of course resulted in larger file sizes due to the software adding extra code.
Now I've learned to read and use HTML, and most importantly for myself, the book has introduced Cascading Style Sheets to me. This has enabled me to go through each of the pages on my website, rewriting the code, implementing CSS and so far, the size of the first 7 pages I have changed has reduced from a total of 103kb to 30kb.
This really is an excellent book, it starts with the basics, and provides easy to follow instructions and example HTML code.
If your wanting to learn HTML then I would highly recommend this book. Great to read through and an excellent reference tool.
SUPERB !! 4 March 2002 (5/5 people found this helpful)
After trying a few books that were supposed to be easy to follow, i found this gem. This book IS easy to follow and is perfect for beginners. I started a course at my local college and after 4 weeks, thanks to this book, i am now developing web pages like a pro. If you are looking for a book on HTML to study at home or to accompany a college course then BUY THIS BOOK NOW!
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