New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and DHTML, 2nd Edition

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Review: I intended to use this book as an alternative to taking the course (this was the textbook) at the local community college. My buddy took the course, but the instructor didn't use the book for teaching cascading style sheets or JavaScript; good thing! This book is the bible for HTML 4.0; for that purpose it worked - forget it for chapters 7 onwards (Cascading style sheets and JavaScript). It seems as though the author/publisher thought that adding these chapters would give the book sales appeal - it didn't; it only made me feel very stupid. I bought WROX's Beginning JavaScript - so far it looks very promising.

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Summary: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML
Review: I used this book for an HTML class taught entirely on the Internet and got an "A"! The exercises are a bit time consuming and tedious, but well worth it for someone like me who has no programming experience. The text is straightforward using pseudo-realistic case study tutorials in a logical and sequential order. This is the comprehensive version of the New Perspectives series. There are also two other versions of this entry level text available in shorter versions.

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Summary: GO FOR IT USED GOOD PRICE
Review: IF YOUR GOING TO Fairleigh Dickinson University | ASP Developer YOU WILL NEED THIS BOOK

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Summary: Not the best HTML book, but definitely a good one.
Review: Like other reviewers, I've used this book in a community college class, and, like the others, find the book does a good job by itself! The example tutorials are easy to follow (although the examples are kind of drab!), additional reference information is included, and being in color definitely helps. I've used this book as a reference when customizing public layouts for my own use. I would say the book is more of a "valiant attempt" at Javascript, which would require a book in itself. Likewise, I was surprised at how often the CSS section didn't help me with some CSS code I was modifying. And I'll add that, of the web technologies out there, you're better off learning Javascript and PHP than DHTML. Not the best HTML book, but definitely a good one.

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Summary: Not technically accurate
Review: The "Includes XHTL coverage throughout" claim on the front cover and the publisher's review is misleading. VERY misleading. While the coverage of the book is well thought out and implemented, the author does NOT use xhtml throughout, proper coverage of xhtml is relegated to a single appendix. The xhtml is what I would call "pseudo-covered" in the rest of the book. For example, proper xhtml requires the use of an xml declarative statement and a DOCTYPE, among other things. The author leaves these out in almost every example. He gets some stuff right like the br / for an xhtml break tag and then totally blows the rest. As an example onMouseOver as an event handler will NOT validate as proper xhtml 1.0 Strict or xhtml 1.1 because xhtml requires all tags and attributes to be totally lowercase and yet the author uses it (among numerous other errors.) If you're going to claim something as teaching xhtml, then you should get it right. If you are learning from this book - great. You'll get a very good foundation. But be aware that Mr. Carey is also teaching you some things that are incorrect. Make sure you validate the scripts at the w3c validator as xhtml 1.1 or xhtml 1.0 strict and you'll see what I mean.

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Summary: programming reader
Review: The book is terrific!!! The tutorials help me to learn the programming syntax, and users can try the case problems to apply what they learned. The case problems downloaded from the book website already contain basic code segment, so users don't have to type everything. Also, excellent references of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript at end of book. As the title implied, the book is primary for learning HTML and DHTML. Reader that would like to learn JavaScript need to get another book, also recommed Beginning JavaScript from Wrox.

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Summary: Would recommend to a freind
Review: This book was used at the local Community College as the text book for an HTML class. I thought the book did a great job of incorporating what the reader learns into real web pages. Other books just say to make text bold do this, to make a marquee do that, but the don't show you how to put that into practice. The reader can do the cases at the end of every chapter and get a solid understanding of how to really use what they've learned. I know it doesn't cover every tag you can use, but gives you a great understanding of the basics.

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Summary: Would recommend to a freind
Review: This book was used at the local Community College as the text book for an HTML class. I thought the book did a great job of incorporating what the reader learns into real web pages. Other books just say to make text bold do this, to make a marquee do that, but the don't show you how to put that into practice. The reader can do the cases at the end of every chapter and get a solid understanding of how to really use what they've learned. I know it doesn't cover every tag you can use, but gives you a great understanding of the basics.