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Summary: Very Practical
Review: Ms. Castro's book is excellent. Easy to understand, easy and fast to find things in it, not a lot of verbage to wade through. Clear examples and well thought-out organization... plus just look at the price! How can you go wrong?
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Summary: An well rounded introductory text to HTML.
Review: This is the first book I've ever bought pertaining to learning HTML. In the past few months, I've found it to be an invaluable text. I must say that Liz Castro's concise and graphical approach to teaching the HTML tyro, or assisting the DHTML expert is unsurpassed. The book is enjoyable and easy to read.
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Summary: The writing is clear and concise . Very well done
Review: This book is rich in knowledge. But it is wriiten so a very novice person can understand. We at T.Rex Productions use Ms Castro as a guide in our web design projects.
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Summary: An excellent desk reference for HTML coding.
Review: This revision (HTML4) of Elizabeth Castro's fine introduction to HTML coding warrants purchase as the first reference of choice for the web page creator. Not intended as an exhaustive treatment of HTML, the book presents examples of simple and easy to understand HTML tag use. Each example is carefully written and displayed in browser form, with proprietary browser differences annotated. "HTML 4 For The World Wide Web" is a part of the PeachPit Press Visual Quickstart Series.The book is useful to the practising web professional as well as the casual page writer. Even though page creation programs are catching on, the user should still understand something about how the tags work in order to figure out problems or achieve custom results. Castro's summary is an easy way to learn about HTML. In fact, the user can type in the examples and then experiment until a personalized page is finished. After having learned about HTML from Castro, the user can graduate to more exhaustive and detailed texts costing more. However, Castro's book should be enough for most casual and some serious users. I keep this book close at hand to remind me about tag features that aren't used frequently. It's format and examples are better than those in many of the other more expensive texts on my shelf. I also recommend it to anyone wanting to learn about web pages. Additionaly, the fold out back cover gives the user a good color chart with hex codes, something even the most expensive reference books seem to lack. Peachpit Press should be commended for establishing a concise and clear format and level of detail for the Visual Quickstart series. Their other offerings are as equally useful and economical.
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Summary: Absolutely One Of The Best HTML Guides Available!
Review: Elizabeth Castro has written HTML 4 for the World Wide Web to provide Website designers with the new HTML 4 programming conventions. This book will provide designers with the latest ground-breaking HTML tags and features they need to create dynamic Websites. Whether the designer uses a commercially available HTML editor or works from scratch, this book will provide new and exciting programming options that can be put to immediate use! The book is written in a clean, concise, and straightforward manner, cutting through the mountains of writing that weigh most other books down. After providing some brief Website design tips the author moves to the heart of the book, strict HTML programming. Available HTML tags are clearly presented and accompanied by sample scripts and illustrations of their use on the same page. No need for page flipping here to see what each tag can do! Are you interested in putting some exciting HTML 4 features to work? Elizabeth Castro suggests that beginners read through the entire book and follow strict HTML guidelines when at all possible. Her book is intended to be a strict HTML resource tool, not a Website design guide offering quick design solutions and cool features to impress visitors. Castro recommends that Websites be simply designed, fast-loading, and accessible to those using a variety of browsers, platforms, and monitor settings. According to Castro universality is key. A convenient chart at the back of the book addresses specific compatibility issues of each tag. Her pet peeves are overpowering backgrounds and unwanted, unsolicited, self-loading obnoxious sounds! This is a top-rated book. Keep it within easy reach of your computer while designing Websites. It is extremely easy to read and thumb through to find the tag scripting and other information you need when you need it! Feel free to highlight pages, fold the corners, and insert bookmarks. It's a quick and easy reference to have on hand! Absolutely one of the best HTML guides available! Highly recommended!
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Summary: Quick and concise
Review: Found HTML 4: Visual Quickstart Guide to be an excellent source to brush up on my HTML basics. I wish I had bought it sooner. I love the illustrations and the availability of examining the code up close.
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Summary: It's good, but nothing to write home about.
Review: It does explain everything very well. THough I can't seem to understand what the excitement is about. I thought it was just another HTML 4 book! I didn't like the tables, heck I want to know how tables help me in postioning graphics!
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Summary: Clear, concise, well organized
Review: I've been coding in various programming languages for some time now, and I have found the most useful books when you're actually doing the work are the books that have clear, concise information readily available. What I've discovered with books of the programming genre is that most of them attempt to go into a great deal of theory and abstract thought while conveying their message. And while there certainly is an appropriate arena for said discussion, a client site during working hours is not one of them. HTML 4 for the WWW is a fantastic reference guide that will help the reader accomplish many of the basic tasks encountered when coding a static web page. A simple look in the table of contents re-directs the reader to a very understandable step by step approach of how to implement a specific feature. This book should be part of every web developer's library. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: This IS a five star book.
Review: The best HTML reference book out there. I've used this version and the previous version and you just can't beat it. This book explains and illustrates each HTML command and how to use them. I was suprised to see a few people had given this book a poor rating. My guess is that they may have expected this book to show them how to build their web site. It won't tell you how to get internet access, how to design your pages, what content you should use on your page, how to upload your code, when you should maintain your page, etc. It strictly explains HTML programming, and does a great job of it!!
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Summary: The book is great,it is very useful.
Review: I am a college student.I think this book is easy understand.it's vrey helpful in my study.
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