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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 pretty 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 is also a quick and easy reference once you are done reading it.
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Summary: Exactly What I Was Looking For!!
Review: This book enabled me to start constructing my own web pages almost immediately. The point-by-point presentation methodology highlights the strengths and opportunities with HTML and also clearly addresses the transition from tags to style sheets. Using this book, I will now confidently head into Javascript, CGI, and XML. Thank you Ms. Castro!
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Summary: Great starting place for the novice
Review: I recommend this book for anyone who doesn't have a clue about HTML (like me). It enabled me to go from square one and start creating websites for money even before I finished reading it. I now have a thirst for other programming languages like CGI and Javascript, and I'll definitely consider Peachpit's other titles. I would have given it five stars if Ms. Castro would actually update her Website!
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Summary: Good Supplement for HTML
Review: This is a great book if you have another with good examples. I found the examples presented in this book confusing. The book was well written and easy to understand until you look at the example and that's when you realize you need another book with clear easy to understand examples.
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Summary: I own the rest, this is the best.
Review: So what if most other books on HTML are four times as thick as this one? This covers EVERYTHING that they do, only more clearly and for less money. I own just about all of the well known HTML guides and I've come to believe that other publishers are simply employing a marketing tactic by making their books super fat and giving them religious sounding names because they know that newcomers to any given field think that a bigger book must be more complete. Don't be fooled, HTML is not nuclear physics--it doesn't require a God-sounding title or nine-hundred pages to explain! Whether you need a tutorial or reference guide that covers everything from designing properly functioning HTML Web pages to how to go about registering them with search engines -- it's all in this awesome book by Ms Castro.
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Summary: All you need.
Review: I absolutely hate to have to buy a how-to book and then go out and buy a reference. Probably why I love this book! It's both at once. I'll put it this way; right now I'm working on a poetry page that uses CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) and tables as layot tools, and an e-resume that thanks to internal style sheets looks almost exactly like my hard copy. I wonder when Castro will take a stab at a Visual Guide to XML?
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Summary: The perfect book
Review: HTML for the World Wide web is a Great book, it helped me a lot if it wasn't for the book I wouldn't have 6 different homepages all using HTML CSS Javascript and A tough of CGI. I'm sure the book will help you too. Every bit of coding is explained thouroughly(unfortunately it didn't teach me how to spell) you'll never be confused
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Summary: a slight correction --newer version is not that bad
Review: I made a fairly lengthly comment about Castro's HTML book a few days ago. I didn't realize that the version I had was not in fact the latest version of her book. (And I looked at this latest version at the bookstore just yesterday). She seems to have corrected a lot of her examples, and she has obliquely addressed the coming of XML to the web in the latest edition. But there are still many places where the examples have tags without their end tags and Ms. Castro doesn't mention XHTML anywhere, so my original comments still apply. This book is one of the most helpful books available on HTML, and this latest edition is much better than previous editions. As long as you remember that the examples still need end tags, this book will still be a worthwhile buy.
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Summary: Beautifully Printed, A Joy To Own
Review: I value my books and have a large collection. The content of this book will serve as a complete reference (and as a tutorial) for the ambitious beginner who is not content with a FrontPage level capability to produce web pages but wants to know the innards of HTML. Other reviewers have commented extensively on the content; I want to call attention to the great design. I find myself picking this book up just to study the typography and graphic design. The publisher, Peachpit Press, uses a colorful, boldly patterned, branded, cover design on the Visual Quickstart series to draw one's attention. Inside each page is laid out in two columns on high-quality bright white paper. The inside columns on the facing pages are used for illustrations, primarily screen shots, which although small are clearly printed. Bold text and judicious use of red as an accent color quickly guide the eye to headings and features. The book is very carefully produced and could serve as a style guide for in-house publications.
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Summary: Liz... what can i say..
Review: Liz Castro, as i said with her Perl & CGI on the WWW book, is one of the best web development book authors. I bought this book to give me better grasp of CSS and what it can do since I have been web designing for 3-4 years and i already know HTML. This is easy to read book with left colum for the book text and right colum for pictures of examples. She also notes whether not the html is for what broswer and version so you can design a cross-broswer compatible website. For Beginners, this is good. For refreshers, pick it up and read it from time to time. If you ride the bus to work, your be done with it in a week.
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