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Summary: The best book for HTML starters and Intermediates
Review: Well, it is an excellent reference too. All items are provided in a succinct and interesting format. For every tag shown there is a graphic/example/code showing how it is applicable and what are the pitfalls. I believe the book covers at least 99% of all the tags and issues involved. Also provides the details on W3Cs efforts to standardize the HTML and HTML rendering. Has good notes on future of each tag, whether it is deprecated or not, differences in implementation by Netscape and IE and other browsers. The amount of detail the book has is amazing, but all of it is presented in a interesting and informative format that any body could appreciate. Has a very good index and it is possible to find information on any tag or an attribute with just one lookup.I have not found the book to be lacking in any way. It does exactly as it advertises, a quick start guide. Has a little bit about the applets and scripts but approaches it as it would apply to HTML tags. Has good information on the Cascading Style Sheets. A wonderful book to learn HTML4
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Summary: Number One Bestseller for a reason.
Review: My advice to those who know nothing about HTML and are wondering what book to begin with: BUY THIS BOOK. Read it. Do what it says. I am a VB programmer currently specializing in MAPI technologies using CDO, ASP, etc... (that was my "credibility plug") and needed to learn HTML in order to merge my organization's Web site with our corporate email client application. I knew ZERO about HTML. I needed to learn YESTERDAY. In one day with this book I was able to delve into the source code of our website and make the adjustments I needed to. This book seems like it would also be a great reference guide for beginner/intermediate HTML developers because the author makes it a snap to find a keyword in the index and lookup what it does.
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Summary: Easy fun-ride from zero to intermediate level Web authoring.
Review: I have never written to authors, but I must say that rarely have I received as much from any text as from HTML for the World Wide Web 4. As soon as I took the book out of Amazon's box and plunged my nose into its pages (aah, the never-forgotten smell of American press!) and, after a few minutes of getting used to its overwhelming metalanguage (the boldprint, chapter titles, outer margin side-titles, appendices, index, discrete use of color and terse, snap examples truly everywhere) I found the notions all but subliminal. Apart from the easy fun-ride from zero to intermediate level authoring, especially enlightening is the constant alert on browser rendering differences. In a few hours I was able to apply a serious revision to the initial 3-page website I was preparing, and now my Tai Chi teacher and mates are really impressed. I am receiving unexpected compliments and, spare time permitting, have now excitedly tried out my first Java script (it works!). I hope Ms. Castro is considering an Italian edition. Thanks to the professional easygoing style, what I thought was late to learn for a 50+ like me doesn't seem so anymore. Quite gratefully, I am considering as next adventure Perl and CGI ... Visual Quickstart guide, which could help to solve an office project. Ms. Castro has an impressive mind, experience and sensibility, and deserves all the success she can get. Thanks again.
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Summary: Delivers exactly what it promises
Review: If what you're after is plain, simple explanations of how to make your page look a certain way, then this is the best book out there. I have a shelf full of web books and this one is one of the few that shows any wear; the rest of them sit on the shelf and gather dust. I've owned the last three editions and the other two are on loan to friends who wanted to get started on their own web pages. If, on the other hand, you don't know what you want to do with your web page, then this book probably isn't for you. It doesn't make a lot of suggestions about what you should and shouldn't do on a web page. If that's what you're after, you should grab a style guide or a design book.
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Summary: A seriously excellent book
Review: From the first page, I felt very comfortable with everything the author was trying to have me learn. The use of code with display made the lessons super-straightforward. This book does exactly what it set out to do: provide a clear introduction to beginners on how to get a web-site up and running. This book puts the Dummies book to shame! Wish she had an XML book out :(
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Summary: This is too good to talk about. Shhh! Don't tell anyone!
Review: I own several HTML books this is the absolute best.Concise clear and to the point.It doesn't get any better. Buy two copies and don't leave home without it!
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Summary: The best HTML book out there.
Review: I've gone through quite a few HTML books. One of my bigger disappointments was the mammoth (1100+ pages) HTML 4 UNLEASHED. Imagine my surprise when I picked up Elizabeth Castro's HTML 4 FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB. With all the positive reviews and a list price of (...), I figured I couldn't go wrong. At under 400 pages, this book is the best HTML book I've seen. It has one of the easiest to understand formats and includes an excellent tutorial on Cascading Style Sheets. To top it off, the Visual Quickstart series' main goal is to provide good tutorials with plenty of images to help you along the way. This book should be it's flaship product. Not only does the author show the reader particular HTML code but will show a picture of the page for just about all of the code so you can see exactly how the page should look. I look forward to Elizabeth Castro's future offerings, as this one is unbeatable.
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Summary: The Best HTML book I have found
Review: I was new to the whole html thing. Ms. Castro has wrote this book so a newcomer. can get it down in a few hours. I started out by reading the book then turning on my PC and just started doing it. As for a Visual Guide it is worth its weight in gold. Very, very easy to understand. Thank You Ms. Castro for a excellent book............
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Summary: Excellent HTML Primer
Review: I used Elizabeth's third edition of this book to create my first web page(s). Although I had some programming experience, this was my first time with HTML. Like a lot of others, I started out using out one of the WYSIWYG editors. (I presently code directly into a text editor - Notepad.) This book made it easy, without the use of complicated examples. I bought the new fourth edition in part to keep up to date and in part because I've become a fan of her style of writing. I don't refer to it as much now because I'm familiar with most HTML codes, but see that the book remains close by for reference. At first glance, seasoned designers or folks working with a WYSIWYG editor may not be interested, but they should. This is the only reference a HTML novice needs to create a first Website.
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Summary: Excellant book for beginners.
Review: I was able to have a web page up with links, images, cutomized fonts in 4 hours with this book. The book is very easy to understand and has good examples.
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