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Summary: A great place to start if you want to build a web site.
Review: If you want to build your first web site and you don't know where to begin, read this book. The authors address all the key issues and tools that you will need to understand to get started. Smith and Bebak help you to plan your site design. They then explain ISP's and the major content sites, and they show you how to get started without spending a lot of money - or none at all. A basic introduction is given to HTML tags. They teach you about broswers and all their versions and how this affects your web pages. Even Web TV is addressed. Both PC and Mac spoken here. Elementary web page creation tools are discussed along with web page design techniques and strategies. This book covers all the issues that the web beginner will encounter.
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Summary: A Good Starting Point For Beginners
Review: If you're already familiar with HTML this is the wrong book. However, if you're just starting & want to move from a program like Page Mill to creating HTML directly this book will help you with the basics: links, images and text formatting. It also covers web development tools and the elements that make web pages good & bad. The book would be better if the subject matter didn't jump around so much and the author covered more complicated HTML (like tables & frames) a little better.
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Summary: Author responds to recent review
Review: In response to the "thumbs down" below: GeoCities is one short chapter, 10% of the book, not 90%! The online steps have indeed recently changed, catching us between our annual updates to the book. For now, there are currently some extra steps in the book in the GeoCities chapter -- but the basic process works, and all the other HTML, graphics, and Web info in the book still works and still helps with your GeoCities or other Web page. Hundreds of thousands of people have found Creating Web Pages helpful, and I expect that to continue for a long time to come.
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Summary: Really Good
Review: Overall, this book was really great. I went in with almost zero knowledge of HTML and came out an almost professional webmaster. I enjoyed this book mostly because of the not-so-technical aspect to it. It was pretty much easy to read and understand. I recommend this book if you are beginner to intermediate in HTML. Oh, by the way, did I tell you that I now make some Java-based web pages, make web pages for other people and businesses, and I'm 13? Well, this is the book that started me off. A must-read!!!
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Summary: An Excellent Book For a Beginner Web Publisher
Review: Since I'm new to the web publishing world, I found "Creating Web Pages for Dummies" to be very useful and informative. Because of this book, I actually published three home pages and an entire web site! In my opinion, the authors provide detailed and easy to follow instructions. The book was also humorous and an easy read. I was never bored and I actually read a few chapter over again. I really enjoy this book because it taught me something I never thought I would be able to do. This book is a must for the beginner web publisher.
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Summary: Creating Web Pages For Dummies just keeps growing!
Review: Thanks to everyone who has purchased Creating Web Pages For Dummies; it keeps getting more popular, and the new 4th Edition has sold 30,000 copies in its first month!Creating Web Pages For Dummies is meant to be the easiest way for absolutely anyone to get a Web page up on the Internet. I've recently taught a class on the topic to parents and worked with several eager businesspeople, and the main interest is always the same: how to get started. That's just what the book is for.
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Summary: Some Good and Some Bad
Review: This book has good and bad points. First, the bad, so you will know why you SHOULD NOT buy this book: the authors are liars. Okay, okay, strong language I know, but consider: both in the book itself and in the software included, the authors claim that Internet Explorer 5.0 and FrontPage Express are included on the CD. Now, if you already have these programs, you obviously don't need them again. But if, like me, you don't yet have them, then having them on a CD is a great bonus. It sure beats waiting for hours for the things to download off of Microsoft's server. And what a great convenience if, for some reason, you need to reinstall Windows, or something. Unfortunately, neither of these useful programs are included on the CD. Neither one. Zilch. Nothing. How dishonest. How disappointing. Liars indeed. Now the good, so you will know why you SHOULD buy this book: although the authors spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about GeoCities and AOL (or whatever), they do provide the rank beginner (that's me) with some helpful hints about HTML, graphics standards, and web creation software. It is thanks to this book that I discovered that I already had Netscape Composer on my computer and could use that to make my webpage. Which I did! So, I'm grateful for that and reward them with the extra star (they would have gotten 1 star for lying). Of course, if they had included FrontPage Express, as they promised, I would never have had to use Composer in the first place, so... LET THE BUYER BEWARE.
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Summary: Sensitive to the "webophile" and "webophobe" alike.
Review: This book integrates a multitude of users, spreading a wide gap of computer knowledge. With easy to navigate text, a web site of simplistic form to that of "Spock" - like intentions can be within one's reach.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is ideal for someone who wants to make a simple web site and not have to get into the gory details of HTML. It tells you some good places to find site builders, but it teaches you the basics of HTML for customization. If you are looking to build professional sites, I would get HTML 4 For Dummies, also by IDG Books, which goes into the more advanced HTML.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is ideal for someone who wants to make a simple web site and not have to get into the gory details of HTML. It tells you some good places to find site builders, but it teaches you the basics of HTML for customization. If you are looking to build professional sites, I would get HTML 4 For Dummies, also by IDG Books, which goes into the more advanced HTML.
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