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Summary: Incredibly Comprehensive!
Review: This book has everything you need to create and publish a winning web site. All the terms are explained early in the book, so that even if you don't know the vocabulary of the industry, you can follow right along. The review of HTML editors is tremendous. The software on the CD ties right in with the content in the book, so that you don't need to hunt all over the net for the tools that it discusses.It also makes a great reference book. This is definitely the *one* book to buy for HTML.
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Summary: would be the best WITH assistent
Review: this book is great, it explains every thing, it even tells you how to organize yourself before going to publishing your site. However, this would be the best if there is another book about html which includes the all elemnts besides eachother. In this book, you need to go to page 20 for exampl, & page 120 & like that. it doesn't give you the cods in easier way than it is already in the book. I had this book since it was first published, but i stopped reading it & i am reading it now again & i bought a book that has the codes beside eachother & the full length of the code. It was going to be better if the authoers devided teh book into 2 sections. one for explainations & the other part just including the codes & how are they used.
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Summary: best of the bunch
Review: this book provides three things: (1) a good broad overview of HTML 4; (2) useful examples and details of specific features, functions and implementations of HTML 4; (3) a good explanation of how HTML 4 is implemented differently on netscape and ie. other books may do a better job with the topics individually, but this is the best composite book on this topic that i have seen
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Summary: I Keep Grabbing This One Off the Shelf
Review: This book truly is my HTML bible. I've been doing HTML constantly for the past four years and have used a lot of resources, both printed and on the web, and when I got this book I didn't need to use any other resources because this book always had the answers to my multitude of questions. I admit that this book would be a little hard to follow if you're completely new to HTML but if you're familiar with HTML and are hungry to become very good at it this book will satisfy you. If you're totally new to HTML I reccomend the book on HTML published by Visual (it's white with a blueprint of a bridge on the cover). It was my first HTML book and it served me well until I learned everything in it and wanted a book that would teach me more. That's why I got this HTML bible.
I have to say I disagree with an earlier review. This bible book explains syntax very very well and gave me a great understanding of it. It would actually break it down and tell you what was what in syntax. No other HTML book I've read did that. I also found that, unlike some other bible books, it was written in language that was easy to understand and follow.
The appendexs in this book are utterly devine. I use them ALL THE TIME. You can look up any tag in html, any attribute for CSS, how to make special characters, and even more, and get information on how to write them, how to use them, what they effect, and what attributes go with them. I think this is just so awesome.
Now, no book is perfect, but this one comes very close :)
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Summary: Comprehensive and Accurate
Review: This is a great book for an experienced Web developer. The authors take special pains to draw attention to what's new in HTML 4 and to indicate what works in each browser (and browser version). This book is always within reach of my computer. The index is excellent and the explanations and examples are clear and relevant. The appendices are also very helpful in showing what works in which browser. I've seen many HTML books and this is the best one out there. So many of the books that are sold as HTML 4 books are really just re-packaged HTML 3.2 books. This one was written for HTML 4, which is really a different animal than HTML 3.2 It includes a comprehensive section on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM), and Javascript, and how the three work together to make Dynamic HTML.
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Summary: Incredibly Shallow Book
Review: This is an incredibly shallow book. Obviously I was too hasty in the store and saw what I wanted to see, not what's actually there. In programming books, I always look for a reference section with a list of commands, how and why to use each of them, what to watch for, and preferably each with an example. The word "Bible" in the title promises just that, and the cover promises "100% comprehensive, authoritative". My quick read looked good: the book is filled with formatted definitions of the commands, what they're called and how to use them, just what I'm looking for. Imagine my surprise when I read the "answers" more thoroughly and discovered that they're almost all fluff. Here's one example: the definition of "Heading" describes the following "attributes:" "id, class: used in conjunction with style sheets"; "lang, dir: indicate language and text direction; better specified in the BODY element unless this element is an exception to the rest of the page." "title: title of this element." Duh: what do I type for "id, class, lang, dir, title" and what difference does it make. Ok, maybe the author doesn't want to be repetitive, so I look under BODY. Sorry, no such entry. Oh, and by the way, the index reads annoyingly more like a concordance: every glancing reference to a word is listed; which means that most of the references are not worth reading. I am trying to reconcile my experience with the many favorable reviews I see here. My guess #1 is that some of these reviews were written after a quick reading, by people who haven't yet looked for the "Bible" part of the book. And #2, since I have not read the "Cascading Style Sheet" section, maybe that section is "biblical". But if you're looking for what I'm looking for, keep looking.
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Summary: Terrible - filled with errors & long unrelated sections.
Review: Truly disappointed with HTML 4 Bible, usualy the Bible series publishes great books. This one should be titled my genearl, overall, meandering feelings about HTML and everything else under the sun. Not only are there numerous errors in the code samples and explanations, the author inserts text after text of off subject, and bad, information. Such as pages advising the use of "active" verbs instead of "passive" verb usage in one's web content, and wondering passages about Xanadu and 'what it' that infinite cross reference idea ever takes off - how "one day" it should be incorporated into web page design. This book, by its title, should discuss HTML coding, its uses and examples - it does very little of that. In my frustration I had to stop reading 3/4 the way through and returned it. I cant' recommend this book under any circumstances. FYI I purchased O'Reilly's "HTML Definitive" book instead and I'm very happy with this later choice.
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Summary: A Mediocre reference. Beginners Beware!
Review: Was this book really written by the same guy who wrote "Publish It On the Web"? I was hoping for an update with the same more great tables and an easy to digest format. Ooops! Silly me. If you got a great beginning from Mr. Pfaffenberger, as I did, and are hoping for more screen shot demos of code, you'll be as disappointed as I am. The authors probably should take their own advise on writing concisely (Page 208). The only probelm is that I am not sure what they said on Page 208 or anywhere else. Or maybe they're like my grad school professors who thought if you had to ask a question, you probably weren't a good candidate for the class. So, don't look for this book to teach, just to recap what they assume you already know.
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Summary: Sequels are not always good.
Review: Was this book really written by the same guy who wrote "Publish It On the Web"? I was hoping for an update with the same more great tables and an easy to digest format. Ooops! Silly me. If you got a great beginning from Mr. Pfaffenberger, as I did, and are hoping for more screen shot demos of code, you'll be as disappointed as I am. The authors probably should take their own advise on writing concisely (Page 208). The only probelm is that I am not sure what they said on Page 208 or anywhere else. Or maybe they're like my grad school professors who thought if you had to ask a question, you probably weren't a good candidate for the class. So, don't look for this book to teach, just to recap what they assume you already know.
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Summary: HTML Bible 4.01
Review: What a great reference to HTML. The book talks about editors, and every element you need to know about how to create your own web page. A truly amazing book.
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