Rating: 
Summary: Possibly the worst textbook of all...
Review: Unless you are wanting to be completely confused and write poor HTML, don't buy this book. I have used the 2nd edition (same author) and a friend's 3rd edition. They have so many typo's in the code that some of it doesn't work. E.g., It doesn't always "quote" the attribute values in HTML coding tags as you are supposed to. 3rd edition, Tutorial-4, Case-1, gives step-by-step instructions to create the example web page, but with code that does Not exist! What is this code: < td width="200" bgcolor="back4.jpg" > ?? Is it for the background color or an image? Which is it!? It can't be both! So in closing, this book is extremely poor and confusing. Please ask your school to quit buying this series of programming books. If you want to learn competant HTML quickly and learn it well, use the free online tutorials from www . w3schools . com. Because this group of people created HTML and there are sure to be no errors.
Rating:
Summary: Possibly the worst textbook of all...
Review: Unless you are wanting to be completely confused and write poor HTML, don't buy this book. I have used the 2nd edition (same author) and a friend's 3rd edition. They have so many typo's in the code that some of it doesn't work. E.g., It doesn't always "quote" the attribute values in HTML coding tags as you are supposed to. 3rd edition, Tutorial-4, Case-1, gives step-by-step instructions to create the example web page, but with code that does Not exist! What is this code: < td width="200" bgcolor="back4.jpg" > ?? Is it for the background color or an image? Which is it!? It can't be both! So in closing, this book is extremely poor and confusing. Please ask your school to quit buying this series of programming books. If you want to learn competant HTML quickly and learn it well, use the free online tutorials from www . w3schools . com. Because this group of people created HTML and there are sure to be no errors.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent for self-study
Review: When I took an Internet class in HTML web design through the local community college, this is the book that was used. I already had some basic HTML knowledge and was looking to expand it. I got a lot of useful information from this book, and use it as a reference guide to this day. I liked the emphasis on Netscape as browser of choice (chances are, if it looks good in Netscape it'll look good in IE) and the way they taught tables by measuring in percentages rather than counting pixels -- this "liquid table" approach will make your page look good on smaller, older monitors. Even though I am dead set against using frames on any of my pages, it was interesting to learn how to make them. Particularly intriguing was the chapter on how to create javascripts -- even though I never quite got the darn things to work, I go back and tussle with it now and again. This book does have some errors in it, which have been pointed out by other reviewers. Filenames really should be all lower case (and try to keep it to 8 characters, 3-character extension if you can). In the hypothetical where you're using various kinds of tables to create an announcement about a meditation seminar, I found no way to get it to look exactly like the example using the code they said to use -- I had to add a couple of extra paragraph tags here and there. Things like that are a bit offputting, but I definitely recommend this book for beginners and people who are intimidated by the thought of handcoding. Along with the HTML Primer at ...,it remains if not my Bible, at least my Guideposts.
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