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Summary: Good book but watch out..
Review: A really good book for learning HTML and XHTML. But check out their site for the list of errors. It ran for nearly 10 pages.
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Summary: Excellant Book, Very Concise
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone that has a working knowledge of HTML. It gets right down to business. If you are just starting out designing web pages, do NOT buy this book. It is not an "expert" book but you must have some knowledge of the language to get the most out of it. If you are just starting out I suggest SAM's teach yourself HTML in 24 hours. This book has been an invaluable reference for me. If your looking for a very thorough book on html, this is it.
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Summary: A must have for anyone who is serious about HTML!
Review: I've read a couple of books on HTML but this is by far the best and most complete reference. I would recommend this book to beginners and seasoned HTML gurus. Even if you are extremely proficient in HTML there are probably a lot of tags you don't know about that can be very helpful in certain situations and there are probably a lot of tags you use that are depreciated under the HTML 4.0 standard. The book is an easy read for anyone and explains every tag imaginable in detail. I really have no complaints except for maybe a few minor issues. A lot of depreciated tags are mentioned very early on in the book let the author does not list any viable alternatives except CSS. The CSS chapter is halfway through the book and only talks about very basic CSS commands. Ifyou are really serious about HTML I would recommend purchasing Orielly's CSS book unless you want to continue using depreciated tags. Overall, I think this is the best HTML book available. I haven't read a bad Orielly book yet.
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Summary: Excellent and comprehensive HTML reference!
Review: This book truly is a comprehensive guide for not only HTML, but also briefly covers the new hybrid of XML & HTML called XHTML. While it doesn't dive deeply into XHTML, there's not that big a need to do so. Most HTML will work fine in XHTML. The standards for HTML keep changing and this book not only describes the changes, but also which tags have been "depricated" or made totally obsolete and which ones are fairly new. It's nice to know which tags are now considered "obsolete" as well as what kind of tags used to be used in HTML. I've been doing web design for three or four years now and I still managed to find quite a few new "tricks" in several chapters that I hadn't known about before. While the book may not be for total HTML novices, anyone with some HTML knowledge will learn quite a bit here. I certainly have. Besides a brief "history" of HTML, the book extensively covers topics like text manipulation, links, lists, cascading style sheets, forms, tables, frames and a chapter about JavaScript. There are also chapters devoted to XML & XHTML as well. This book is excellent, especially if you're looking for an in-depth HTML reference book.
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Summary: A great HTML text
Review: This book is a very good treatise on the basic HTML language. Web design novices will be able to easily learn the language, while already experienced designers will learn things they never knew before and have an essential reference book. Each HTML tag is clearly explained with a thorough description of all its properties. Proper HTML coding and the use of content-based structure are strongly encouraged. One word of warning: The chapter on style sheets is very rushed and may be difficult for a novice to comprehend. If you wish to learn style sheets, I recommend reading Eric Meyer's "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide." Otherwise, this book is nearly flawless and will have you creating well-designed web pages in no time.
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Summary: Useful, but not all-inclusive
Review: Calling this "the definitive guide" is reaching a little, but it does have a lot of merit, nevertheless. Here's my take on it -- Some Good Qualities: 1.)It really is a pretty comprehensive REFERENCE SOURCE. I say this to draw a contrast, in some ways, with its value as a TUTORIAL. More on that later... 2.)I liked the models for writing web pages. If you use this feature, and also get in the habit of using the "view page source" on your browser, you are on a productive path for learning HTML. 3.)Detail, detail, detail... A lot of the stuff the authors talk about, they talk about EXHAUSTIVELY, with the notable exceptions of META tags, Cascading Style Sheets, and javascripting. Apart from those flaws, there usually is more detail than most people would even need, which of course is a good thing. Better too much detail than not enough. Some Poor Qualities: 1.)It's very dry. Obviously you shouldn't be expecting excitement on the level of, say, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", but even without lurid sex and/or violence, or, for example, the wit of Steve Martin, it seems like this could have been more engrossing. Just my opinion. 2.)This is sort of an extension of my last point, but... I think it's a little too heavy on the terminology for a beginners guide. Of course, you do need to learn it at some point, but that's part of what made it slow going in some ways. If you already have some experience with the world of HTML, you won't be slowed down by this kind of thing, but if you're coming to it fresh this makes for very slow reading, and it becomes difficult to remain alert to what the authors are trying to get across. This is what I meant before when I said that this is a valuable reference source, but imperfect as a tutorial. 3.)The treatment of META tags, Cascading Style Sheets, and javascripting could have been a lot better.
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Summary: Excellent HTML book but only one chapter of XHTML
Review: The Title is completly different to what you'll expect.
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Summary: Messy.
Review: This is not what I would call a hopeless book, but it could definitely be improved. There are almost no helpful examples, and when there is an example (usually on Kumquats) it is not straightforeward. I am all for complex and non-straightforward examples, but only after a more simple example which clearly illustrates the ideas being discussed. The section on tables is one such instance of poor presentation making use of a rather none straightforward table as an introduction.
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Summary: Excellent reference guide
Review: I found this to be an excellent reference tool for web design. Anyone not familiar with Chuck Misciano's writings should visit webreview.com. He writes articles for this online magazine. As with most O'Reilly Press books this is meant to be more a reference book than an instructional book. While they do help you along with coding. A certain level of knowlege is expected when using this book. Also, unlike the traditional instructional book, this type of refernce format is not meant to be read from beginning to end. Rather, use this book by looking in the Table of Contents and selecting a specific subject. This is a good book and I often refer to it when I am coding.
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Summary: It really is the definitive guide!
Review: Like most web developers / back-end programmers, I like to code my own html. HTML: The Definitive Guide is the best html reference I've ever laid eyes on - extreemly well organised, it has concise chapters covering important topics, such as Tables and Forms. Each chapter describes the functionality of the topic, then details each property. For example, the tables chapter describes the basic structure of forms, then goes on to detail all the possible properties that can be placed inside each tag and what they do. It assumes only basic knowledge and comes with an excellent introduction to html for the novice, but the best features are the excellent layout which make it easy to look things up quickly and the well devised tear-out quick reference card detailing the complete set of tags and elements. This is one of four books I always keep with me at work! The three others are "ASP In a Nutshell", "JavaScript: The Difinitive Guide" and an SQL reference.
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