Rating: 
Summary: Excellent!
Review: I have found after hundreds and stacks of computer books that the quickstart are certainly the most inexpensive and knowledgeable for the size of these books. It is amazing how much helpful information can be found on these pages. Not perfect but pretty darn complete and a wonderful beginning. The chapters represent categories, and there is a great appendix that lists all the tags with brief helpful descriptions! This book lays a great foundation of solid XHTML and CSS. With the most complete and readable introduction into the world of web design. Because of the authors ability to get the information across without going over your head I would highly recommend this book to either the beginner or the intermediate user. It is a book well worth you money!
Rating:
Summary: Great reference, and great for beginners.
Review: I have been a Webmaster since 1995 and found that there are still times that I need to look up a tag that I use infrequently. I was tired of looking things up online and finding that my online references no longer exist. This book gives me everything at my fingertips. The chapters represent categories, and there is even a great appendix that lists all the tags with brief descriptions. One other thing that I typically need is a table with all symbols that I rarely use but may need on occasion -- all on one page! There is also a flap on the back page of web-friendly colors and their hex equivalents. For beginners, everything is laid out in a logical order and is easy to follow. Picture examples make this book easy to follow and easy to flip through and find exactly what you need.
Rating:
Summary: Better than promised
Review: This is a great book. I have a lot of programming experience,
but was a total HTML newbie. This book, while not perfect,
seems to go at the right pace, and gives the right amount of
detail when needed. In particular, the tradeoffs between older HTML, XHTML and using
CSS are well explained. After reading this book, (and with the
help of a Web Editor), I was able to create a small (25 page)
web site for a company that I just started. I don't own any other HTML books (yet), but did look through
several. Of the 5 - 6 I looked through, this seemed to be
the best. I think I made the right choice as this book has
provided me everything I needed to know on HTML to get up and
running.
Rating: 
Summary: A bit confusing for beginners...
Review: I just finished teaching an introductory HTML course using this textbook. I wanted to choose a book that taught proper (X)HTML syntax, and the choice ended up being between this book and the O'Reilly HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. I selected this one due to this book's more "visual" approach, its brevity, and its cost (about half the cost of the O'Reilly one). However, many of the students were confused and frustrated by the layout of the text. The material is more or less presented in a "step by step" fashion, and in most cases the text the student is to change is highlighted in pink to make it easy to spot. However, there are many instances where one area of the code is highlighted, yet more than that area of the text needs to be changed in order for the page to look like the example. Additionally, the author will periodically go off on "side bars" about other things that can be done with a particular topic (table borders, frames, etc.) without notifying the reader that this doesn't have anything to do with the exercise they're trying to work through. Many students were thrown off by this because they didn't see the stuff they just typed in referenced on the next page. There were also several instances where parts of the source code were left off, trusting the reader to infer where it should be placed. This is something that is relatively easy for someone who already knows HTML already to do, but can be frustrating for beginners. On the brighter side, the content of the book is very comprehensive for such a small text (it even includes a chapter about writing web pages for wireless devices), and it contains helpful (X)HTML tags, CSS properties, special characters, and hex color references in the appendices. The source code in the 5th Edition is also a HUGE improvement over the previous... everything is kept pretty consistent throughout, and it's nice to see a book geared towards beginners pushing readers toward writing valid (X)HTML.
Rating:
Summary: GREAT BOOK!!!!
Review: This was an excellent book. I already am a very proficient HTML programmer and wanted to update my skills with XHTML & CSS. This was just what I needed. I don't know how someone who has no experience would view it, but I found the relating of the XHTML & CSS to HTML most helpful.
Rating:
Summary: Great Beginnings
Review: This book lays a great foundation of solid (X)HTML and CSS which are standards compliant. The greatness of this book though lies in what it's aim is, in a bout a weekend you can have the most thorough and readable introduction into the world of web design. However, this book is not exhaustive and I would append it with a follow up book on advanced (X)HTML and CSS. The ease of reading this book coupled with a wonderful appendix makes it a great retainer on your bookshelf that can be used as quick refrence. The values of doing all code by hand instilled by this book are great and serve only to make pages faster, leaner, and easier to update. As a 6 year veteran of HTML I found this book refreshing and somewhat of a reality check, I now code all my pages mostly with CSS markups and it has cut most of my page sizes down by 60% and left them looking better than ever. That is the reason why I must recommend this book to anyone who has been, wants to, or is ever thinking about making any sort of web pages.
Rating: 
Summary: HTML For the World Wide Web
Review: All in all this book is great if you want to learn how to do something quick and dirty. But if you are serious get this book and a reference book. This book does a great job of showing you the wrong way to do something, then it says "Oh by the way that was the wrong way to do it, now we will show you the right way". (same for her javascript book, for instance the rollovers) I almost pulled my hair out when I was trying to read chapter #8 on creating Style Rules and the author didn't even bother telling me where to put the rules. When I went to the website the example of page #34 it wasn't even on the website. This is a kidde book for quick information, not to be taken serious for power users.
Rating:
Summary: I thought it was easy, but...
Review: I have many web sites. My girlfriend wanted to make money on the internet too. I told her she needs to learn HTML and so, I bought her this book. I skimmed through it and thought it was great. I even learned some useful things about some of the tags that I am now using on my sites. Of course, I already had a good understanding of HTML in the first place. She, however, thought this book was really confusing. I think if she would practice what the book says and see the tags in action, she would have a better understanding of HTML. Because of the confusion she had, I gave the book 3 stars.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent for beginners..
Review: it's true! I didn't know a thing about html before getting this book but I didn't have to be. No it doesn't turn you into a 'Webmaster extraodinaire' but it does give you the skills and confidence to start. I was able to get a decent looking website up without professional help (other than the book) and without those tacky look alike 'templates' most free webspace sites use. The book itself is easy to read and pictorial for those who have to see to do its well worth the [money].
Rating:
Summary: For beginners - can't go wrong
Review: This is an excellent book for beginners or near beginners. To get started you can hardly ask for more. The "visual" style, where you see the code highlighted in a sidebar, was incredibly valuable to me, showing exactly what had to be done. You'll be able to have a decent looking site up in short time. The book's section on css stylesheets is truly an excellent, working, introduction. My advice: start using style sheets. Despite their initial pains, they will pay off handsomely. The drawbacks of the book are two: it's limited in scope. If you want to do server side scripting or setup a database you'll have to look elsewhere. It's chapters on javascript are also very limited. Second, when you want to do something not straight forward, you may not find it here. That's OK in a way. Experimentation is a true way to learn. These are not criticisms, for this this is an INTRODUCTORY book. As such it is truly admirable. You can't go wrong.
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