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Summary: Help For Those Who Think They Can't Do It!
Review: As an artist I felt it would be somehow cheating to have someone else design my website, even though I'm not a computer artist. But it seemed like a huge endeavor, something that would take ages to learn. ( I didn't even know what HTML was when I began!).
Finally I purchased Steve Callihan's book out of a small selection of instructional books for Mac users. I didn't look at it for several weeks, but when I did just a few days ago I found that with Steve's engaging writing style and clear step-by-step instructions, I was learning and creating just as fast as the book promises! In no time I understood what I was doing well enough to play around with the helpful example sites and graphics he supplies.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to do this but dreads getting started.
Also, the book's web site is very helpful, with more graphics that you can download and a FAQ section which you can add to with your own questions. Many other web publishing resources are also listed in the book.
Steve Callihan is a wonderful author and teacher!
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Summary: Help For Those Who Think They Can't Do It!
Review: As an artist I felt it would be somehow cheating to have someone else design my website, even though I'm not a computer artist. But it seemed like a huge endeavor, something that would take ages to learn. ( I didn't even know what HTML was when I began!).
Finally I purchased Steve Callihan's book out of a small selection of instructional books for Mac users. I didn't look at it for several weeks, but when I did just a few days ago I found that with Steve's engaging writing style and clear step-by-step instructions, I was learning and creating just as fast as the book promises! In no time I understood what I was doing well enough to play around with the helpful example sites and graphics he supplies.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to do this but dreads getting started.
Also, the book's web site is very helpful, with more graphics that you can download and a FAQ section which you can add to with your own questions. Many other web publishing resources are also listed in the book.
Steve Callihan is a wonderful author and teacher!
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Summary: Needs Updating
Review: I found this book great. I am a novice and wanted to create my own web site, thinking that it really can't be that hard. And thanks to this book it was easy. The lessons were easy to follow, the explanations were very clear, and it gives you a good grounding in html. I would recommend it to anyone with an iMac.
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Summary: Excellent manual for beginners
Review: I found this book great. I am a novice and wanted to create my own web site, thinking that it really can't be that hard. And thanks to this book it was easy. The lessons were easy to follow, the explanations were very clear, and it gives you a good grounding in html. I would recommend it to anyone with an iMac.
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Summary: Needs Updating
Review: While basic HTML is the same, web site design has advanced so much since this book was first published it only serves as a source of frustration for anyone wishing to create a sharp-looking site. It takes hours of reading this book to learn basic information you could otherwise get from one of those HTML cheat cards they sell at the bookstore (which, this book is dearly lacking!). As an earlier reviewer noted, there is little in the book that is Mac-specific, so don't think you need a book that says, "Mac" on the cover to learn HTML.The narrative format may work well for someone who knows absolutely nothing about the web. But, it only slows down the reader looking to get up and running fast. If you want to create a cheesy "retro" style web page circa 1999, this is your book. If you want to create a professional site, there must be better books out there than this one.
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Summary: Strong Mac instruction with some minor flaws
Review: [This is a review of the *Macintosh* version, "Create Your First Mac Web Page on a Weekend"] There's far too little devoted specifically to the Macintosh end of computing, so I was happy to see this book address a project I've always wanted to start: creating my first webpage, but *not* on a dreaded Windows machine! I'm pleased to say the book is exactly as advertised...by the end of a weekend I'd created and posted a simple but effective website on AOL. Step-by-step exercises take you through the various aspects of coding, assuming no previous knowledge, and a simple but effective process of typing a few lines of code, and then checking it in your web browser to see the instantaneous results, gives you good feedback and instant gratification to see what you're learning. Calihan covers text-based HTML as well as an overview of using Adobe PageMill 3.0, and a decent general look at the mechanics of a basic and effective website (rule #1: always plan your website's structure before you start coding...I learned this the hard way!) An enclosed CD-ROM contains all the software tools you'll need plus numerous coding examples, website templates, images, clip art and backgrounds to get your started. The basic structure of the book breaks your work into easy-to-handle weekend segments (Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, etc.) so you can go into work on Monday and tell your friends to look at your new website. A number of minor flaws take a couple points away from my praise: 1) There's no general overview or review of what you have learned and where it has gotten you at the end of each chapter or session--a point by point recap, with a review table of the coding you've learned, would have been much appreciated. 2) There's no appendix or pull-out reference chart of the various coding you've just learned...to remember what you need to type, you have to page back through the chapters. (There are several *other* books that feature such charts or pull-outs, but the inclusion of one in this volume would have been a big help). 3) The most grievous problem: a number of typos in the coding examples themselves might have you scratching your head wondering what you did wrong. I finally figured out there were missing proper end paragraph codes at the end of examples on page 51 and 60, for example. For Mac users who get frustrated at Windows-centric manuals, this *is* a solid book, but it needs some improvements and corrections. Version 2.0 anyone?
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