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Summary: best html book out there
Review: i started web design 2 years ago and was horrible at it...about 3 months ago i picked this book up and started to redo my website, it looks tons better... http://www.bryan-ferguson.com ...look at how good ive gotten in the past few months...i think the website speaks for the book...buy it
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Summary: There has got to be a better book...
Review: I bought this book because it is the #1 best-selling book on HTML and it seemed to contain all of the content that I am looking for. In reading through the book,I find that 1) the explanations are not always clear or concise 2) I find myself skipping sections because it is annoying to read because the text-figure layout is poor and 3) the author consistently refers to other book sections 50+ pages ahead of the current reading as explanation.This book is probably best as a reference, not as a manual.
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Summary: If you have to buy one book, this is it.
Review: This is my all time favorite reference/learning guide. I purchased the 4th edition and it was the most used guide of my collection of over 50 various tech books. The 4th edition of HTML, touched on CSS which I wished there was more information on this topic. Ah, but my wish came through. With CSS on the 5th edition, I'm pretty sure this book would be used even more than the previous edition. If I can give out guarantee's, I would guarantee you will not find a better HTML book, hands down. Now if only she'd write a XSLT book.....
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Summary: Obligatorio para cualquier desarrollador Web!
Review: La 5ta edición de este libro cubre HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 y CSS. Es excelente! El libro tiene una excelente metodología de enseñanza y a la vez funciona como un libro de referencias. Introduce poco a poco las etiquetas HTML. Es ideal para principiantes y expertos en HTML. Además, presenta de una forma sencilla las diferencias entre XHTML 1.0 y HTML 4.01. Describe con imágenes la forma en que se presenta cada etiqueta HTML en los diferentes navegadores Web. Resalta cada problema posible y las soluciones a los mismos. Gracias a este libro se pueden diseñar páginas que se vean bien en cualquier navegador de Internet! Luego de leer este libro, lo tengo siempre a mano para cualquier consulta. En resumen, es una magnifica inversión!
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Summary: If you can only get one book for current usage, this is it!
Review: This is an amazingly well written book with lots of meat. It gives you all you need for creating excellent web sites using the current transitional markup language and style sheets plus introducing the upcoming XHTML. It's great for beginners and those with experience. I keep mine on my desk and am always dragging it from room to room. It has lots of information you'll need again and again. It won't have everything you want. As you progress, you'll want more information on CSS and certainly on XHTML. But for most people at this time, this is the book to have. Susanna K. Hutcheson
Owner and Executive Copy Director
Powerwriting.com LLC
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Summary: An incredable book ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Review: What and execellent way to write a book. It is written in such a way that it is easily used as a reference manual. The definitions are clear. What more needs to be said.
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Summary: Concise, clear, easy to use
Review: I found myself going to this book much more often than to my HTML course textbook when looking things up. Still do, too! Highly recommended!
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Summary: Learns you all fundemental to build a good homepage
Review: This book was a positive surprise for me. To be honest, I didn't expect much of a quickstart book. But, the book learns you most important about HTML and CSS, plus gives you a good (small) introduction to JavaSript. I knew basic about HTML and needed to learn more HTML and CSS within a few days. After a few days I could build a professional homepage using JavaScript (from the book and from the internet) and of course write HTML and CSS. Let's avoid misunderstandings. The JavaScript chapter DO NOT learn you to write JavaScript - it learns you the basic, so you can use the examples from the book or from the internet and mayby modify them if needed. So don't expect to write your own JavaScripts after reading this book. Another positive element is, that Elizabeth Castro everytime she presents a new tag comments the difference between different browsers. The only negative I have to say about the book is, that sometimes it is a little confusing to read the examples, since the book is printed in only greyscale and red. Often changes are written with red to emphasize it, but it can be confusing (on the other hand, the book is cheap). Since it is a quickstart book it does not cover in depth HTML - there exist big references book for that purpose. But as a quickstart book you can't get a better HTML book than this one.
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Summary: badly organized
Review: This, the 5th edition, is badly organized compared to the 4th. You often cant try things as you read about them. This is especially true for the chapters on style sheets. I think the trouble is that the book tries to cover HTML and XHTML simultaneously. While there is obviously alot of overlap, there are enough ideosynracies to scramble the natural order of presentation. Compounding that is the small size and format of the book. Many of the examples are incomplete or not well connected to the text just because they wouldn't fit otherwise.
I'm going back to the 4th edition. XHTML can wait.
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Summary: Excellent for Beginners and Intermediates
Review: This book is very informative, easy to follow and gives useful examples. It also has a companion web site to allow the readers to download the examples. Throughout the book, the authors gave easy to comprehend step-by-step text, walking the reader through the easy to follow examples, while all the time covering some reaonably difficult subject matter. For example, I've seen several books that describe object-oriented language, but the definitions given in this book for objects, properties, methods and events were probably the most straight forward, non-technical and easy to understand definitions that I've ever seen.
Because of the authors' ability to make the readers comfortable with what they are doing and not talking over their heads, I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn JavaScript. I would also suggest looking at other books by the authors, Tom Negrino and Dori Smith.
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