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Summary: good for beginners/non-programmers
Review: This is a very good book for people with no programming experience. It's a real handholder. The book is short, simple, and everything is taught by example. The organization was good enough that it quickly becomes more of a reference than something you'd read start to finish, even for people that have never seen html before. After reading it I have to wonder how people are making money off those big fat html books when this one has most of what a person would need in 200 pages.
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Summary: Better than a school course!!
Review: There should be picture of this book in the dictionary to serve as the definition of "user-friendly". I discovered it after already shelling out big bucks for a course on the topic. I wish I had saved my money. This book has everything you might need to get started. Some of the stuff is SLIGHTLY outdated, like frames, but it's still good to know it. This will also help you dive into the world of CGI, and javascripting, as well. Absolutely worth scoping out.
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Summary: chapter one and allready lost
Review: I bought this book based upon the reviews from amazon, but I find it incredibly non-user friendly. Chapter one, under values you are refered to a figure under which is printed "You don't need to enclose one word values in quotation marks." I didn't know what she was talking about until further down the page you get to a section on quotation marks. Two sections later when introducing another confusing topic she refers you to an explanation two chapters ahead! I don't read books like that. For something as esoteric as HTML you have to hold my hand. She introduces right from the start difficult concepts with no context for understanding them at all. I will suffer through this for another chapter, "starting your web page," but I am so lost I am skimming the first chapter in hopes that it will make sense later. It is not an auspicious start.
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Summary: See for yourself
Review: At the time I had almost no knowledge of HTML. I didn't use anyresources other than Ms. Castro's book to design it.This book isconcise, comprehensive and easy to use. It's set up to be a workingmanual, so you can flip to whatever you need to know right theninstead of having to read the whole thing cover-to-cover. For someonejust getting started, who actually wants to design a site withoutwading through unnessecary BS, this book can't be beat.
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Summary: Buy the book, Learn the code
Review: If you are looking for your first HTML book, buy this book. For the beginner web designer, this book is a great start. You will be designing web pages right away. This book will also give you an advantage over those who choose the route of letting the HTML editor do the coding for them. You will be able to look at your source code and understand what the page is doing. Very clear and concise I recommend this book highly. Once you read this book you will be ready for more advanced reference guides like those published by O'Reilly Press.
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Summary: I learned HTML in 3 days!!!!
Review: I purchased this book hoping to just grasp the concept of HTML. Instead, I could not put the book down and was able to understand and compose my own Wedding website in 3 days complete with frames, pictures, stylesheets and a little extra javascripting she threw in too. I would recommend this book to anybody who is interested in web development. Good Luck!!!
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Summary: wonderful wonderful wonderful
Review: after i wanna start to learn html i only read the articles about this book in amazon.com. i really did not read the book. but i was affected by the ideas of the customers. read it and try the exitement of this book. have nice time with it.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: For the peaple who don't know HTML this a very good start,and for the ones who know this works as a very good refrence.
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Summary: excellent
Review: besdies a fondness for ms. castro based on her residing in northampton, mass, where i lived for awhile, this is one of the better computer self-educational books i have ever purchased. her coverage of updates, tags, deprecated tags, tables, CSS and all other things germane to page design is, near as i can tell, comprehensive, while she makes brief and innocuous suggestions about good web design. this book was excellent for reading while at the keyboard building, or on the beach preparing. ms. castro also recognizes a basic hurdle in internet design - the differences in browser capabilities. she is thorough in explaining what tags are deprecated, why they have been, and which browsers still recognize them, as well as often covering tools and tags specific to netscape or explorer. this is an excellent book for anyone willing to sit and put the tools into PRACTICE. if you're not, you should be in a class, not learning from books anyway.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I have become a fan of the Visual Quick Start Series ever since I went through this book. If you are new to HTML then you should definitely buy this book. HTML is a language which is intuntive and best taught by giving plenty of examples and avoiding too much theory. Elizabeth Castro accomplishes this and I found this book so interesting and to the point that I finished it in just two sittings. It will serve as a quick and easy reference once you are done reading it.
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