HTML 4 for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides)

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Elizabeth Castro

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Pages: 336 (Paperback)

ISBN: 0201696967

Pub: Peachpit Press

Pub date: 1998-05-29

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 397048

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:

Bit of a let down (1/1 people found this helpful)

I found the book a little confusing and hard to follow to be honest, particularly in relation to CSS. Would prefer to see more full length examples rather than little code snippets here and there which I found confused things even more. Good enough as quick reference guide but wouldn't recommend for a beginner.

Quick and clear (2/2 people found this helpful)

This great value guide helped me enormously in getting to grips with HTML and CSS. I had tinkered with web design but needed to go further. I found application-based manuals only gave you a single solution to the problem. In contrast, this guide clearly illustrated the principles so that I then understood what to do in the application (although it was often hard to find out which tools/window to do it with). So I'm buying the manual for Dreamweaver CS3, too.

Excellent reference book - not so hot for a cold start (3/3 people found this helpful)

I was new to HTML. I initially found the book very daunting at first read. I then picked up a very, very simple starter manual with step by step build a page - and then the penny dropped.

Now this book is my reference and I now find it invaluable.

Perhaps not for the real beginner, but brilliant thereafter.

Seriously disappointed with the other reviewers (15/15 people found this helpful)

I bought this title due to all the enthusiatic reviews. I wanted to get back into web design, and as my knowledge predated xhtml, I needed a guide to modern techniques. This book got my head spinning and I was just lost after getting a third of the way through. It is so badly put together as a read it from chapter one guide. Thankfully I found "CSS the Missing Manual"by McFarland. Now I fully understand what Castro was banging on about in her unclear style with declarations, divs and spans (and I'm only on chapter one of that book). Really if you don't believe me, check out Castro's site www.cookwood.com - which depite being designed by a "bestselling" expert on web design is to me very tacky (yuk those verbose links).
I rely on these Amazon reviews. Good grief, guys - I actually had to go to a bookshop to browse for an alternative!

Great book (2/2 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!

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