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Summary: If you only buy one HTML book, this should be it!
Review: What I really like about this book is that it is so comprehensive. It discusses issues related to helping Web site visitors navigate around your site in greater depth than any other book I've seen. It really has some great insights. It also has heavy-hitting chapters about CSS and dynamic HTML. This book tackles both advanced issues and the basics in a way that is easy to read and great for future reference. I can't recommend it enough.
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Summary: HTML 4 Bible Should Not Be Viewed As A Reference Manual
Review: When purchasing this book, I was expecting something along the lines of a definitive reference, with commentary and examples. What I got was something more along the lines of the New Testament - subject to interpretation and discussion as to what the authors really intended to say based on prophecy.I am disappointed at spending the money on a book with typographical errors and omissions in the reference sections. If you are not already a sage in the world of programming, you may find this book completely confusing. If you already are an expert, with many languages under your belt, including HTML already, you'll find this book on the shelf more often than on your desk. However, if you are a skilled programmer, but have very limited exposure to HTML, I would highly recommend this text. By trying to figure out how to make style sheets actually work for anything complex, beyond the presented examples, you will almost certainly learn a great deal. I suspect that this is the target audience for this text. If so, good job. When the next edition comes out, please organize your reference section with more of an instructional design focus. Start with the highest elements, and drill down completely, with each possible option and value (or a decent cross-reference to the possible values). This comment particularly applies to the CSS section, where it is unclear which option is usable for a given HTML element. On the upside, I did like the presence of the "Where to go next" portion of each chapter. As a prose-style book, this is very helpful.
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Summary: Okay reference. Waaaay too many mistakes.
Review: While this book helped me through the basics, it did so in a confusing and round-about fashion. All too often subjects were brought up, only to be glossed over and referenced to a chapter further along in the book. That jumping around made for very confusing reading. It was also dissapointing to see so many chapters written about such off-topic subjects such as verb usage and finding a topic for a web page. This book could have, and should have, been much smaller (read cheaper) for the actual HTML 4 information it contains.
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