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Summary: Excellent Book!!!
Review: This book is Fantastic! It is informative, easy-to-read, and great for an html beginner. If you are new to html then this is the book for you!
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Summary: Where oh where is that figure again....?
Review: This book, although covering all the basics, does it in a jumbled way. It teaches you about tags, which is great, but sometimes loses track, jumping from one topic to another in a seemingly random fashion. The most infuriating thing to me was the referencing of figures that never seemed to appear in the pages anywhere. I can't begin to explain how confusing it is for a person who sets out to learn something, when the "example" isn't there. Next time I'll buy from another publishing house. The proofreaders in this one just can't be bothered to be precise.
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Summary: incremental improvement
Review: This is a competent introduction to web page authoring. I think it would enable a relative novice to get started.Sometimes, as when she introduces XHTML early in chapter 2, Willard gets into theory that I imagine would go over the head of a beginner. But her examples are clear enough so that I think most people should be able to plow ahead anyway. Here is where I am coming from. I am an experienced Web programmer who will be teaching a high school course in Web design. In general, I am finding that I want to write my own lectures--and put them on line--rather than use a book. I'm thinking that this is 2001. But most introductory Web authoring books include a mishmash of material, some of which is state of the art in 1996, and some of which is more current. Compared to what is out there in general, Willard's book is incrementally better. She talks about the .png format for graphics. Her chapter on cascading style sheets is longer than that in competing books, but not nearly long enough. What I am asking for is a book that throws out or downplays all the hacks we learned four years ago (font tags, table-driven layouts, frames) and instead takes style sheets as the core design tool. In 2001, you'd think that there would be a beginner's book that takes such an approach. Maybe Willard will take that on as her next project.
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Summary: Learn HTML the Easy Way
Review: This is a great book. I have been very interested in the Internet for some time, but I never had the time or knowledge required to create a Web site. I bought this book on a lark, and I couldn't be more satisfied. The language is straightforward and down to earth. After three hours of concentrated learning, I constructed my first Web page. If you want to learn HTML, buy this book.
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Summary: Eureka!
Review: This is the book that will have you understanding the simple, basic makeup of the Internet and how you can easily manipulate a few pixels to get your thing out there. The other books (there are a ton of them) assume you know the principles already. Many of us don't. This is like a gentle explanation from a friend.
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Summary: Great base book!
Review: This is what I was looking for!!! Wanting to build a decent web site on my own but not having a clue where to begin I ordered this book. I feel like I'm taking a real class with the informative chapters and quizzes at the end of the book. HTML A Beginners Guide is a must have. Two thumbs up!!!
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Summary: Where oh where is that figure again....?
Review: Wendy has done a very nice job of introducing HTML to the average person. What might seem like technical mumbo-jumbo to most people, becomes very clear with this book. I hadn't used HTML in years, and this book served me well as a refresher course.
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Summary: Not too shabby
Review: Wendy has done a very nice job of introducing HTML to the average person. What might seem like technical mumbo-jumbo to most people, becomes very clear with this book. I hadn't used HTML in years, and this book served me well as a refresher course.
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Summary: HTML for the Non-Programmer ...Learning beyond CLICK !!
Review: Wendy Willard has written a book that takes users of FrontPage way beyond the Click and View process. I picked up this book and find myself using it to understand what FrontPage HTML has written out and how to manipulate the code myself to get beyond finding the right tool bar, option, etc. It's now possible to go straight to the code and enter changes (even cut and paste) directly, then view and save!
Most readers will find this book well laid out, simple to digest. It's an encouraging spring board toward moving beyond cookie cutter software.
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Summary: 20% Design, 80% HTML Rehash
Review: Wendy Willard is the author of another Osborne book entitled HTML: A Beginner's Guide. It's a great book. Unfortunately, a lot of the material in that book has been grafted into Willard's second book, Web Design: A Beginner's Guide. I bought Web Design because I enjoyed Willard's HTML book. I thought she would concentrate on what the title promises: Web design. Instead, I found a few chapters on very basic Web design, and many more chapters on writing HTML (which has no place in a *design* book!), along with the obligatory padding about 'what is the Web' and other page stretchers. If Willard had actually written a book about Web Design, she might have created a top-notch *set* of books. Instead, she relied on a rehash of her HTML book to flesh out a minimal, mediocre coverage of Web design. I'm disappointed. Bob McLain
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