creative html design.2 (2nd Edition)

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Summary: A very good, must have book for all web designers.
Review: This is a great, much needed, update from the past version of Creative Html Design. HTML Design is a very important subject to know as a web designer and developer, simply because not everyone is capable of seeing media, such as Shockwave Flash. This book covers everything from Layout to Effective Design techniques using new HTML programming improvements (DHTML), always keeping the readers' attention and interest using a unique style that you can notice in most of Lynda's books. If you are a web designer you definitely need this book, not only for a souce of learning, but also for a great reference. Knowing effective design techniques and having good layout skills is totally going to affect the effect and impact of your multimedia designs. I recommend this book if you are looking for an easy to read yet effective approach at creative web design with HTML, from a web designers' point of view.

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Summary: Beginner's Guide to NOT SO CREATIVE HTML
Review: When I was told that this book was going to be used for my technology class I was kind of excited because I am fairly familiar with the Lynda.com material. I had picked up her Learning Flash 5 CD-ROM and walked away with a feeling that it was money well spent, and that I had come away with a great deal of knowledge about Flash. Now keeping this in mind, when I picked up this title and read through it (mind you unlike some reviewers I read cover to cover), I did not feel like there was too much content that I could walk away with and use in any real world situtation. The techniques she used, produced very amateur-like pages that would not pass for a high school student's work. Mind you, for some of the fundamental HTML concepts the book was good, but for any real world stuff I felt like I was lookig at those pages where you know the person made it in Frontpage 98' without the plug-ins. Any of the cool stuff like the Javascript Rollovers was gone over so rushed and with so little detail, that it would have been better to have omitted it from the book. I am sorry this book just really was not worth the money.. I would look to that HTML Quickstart book over this one any day.