Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: Designing With Stylesheets, Tables, and Frames (Laura Lemay's Web workshop)

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Summary: I loved this book - learned an awful lot very quickly.
Review: I am an experienced technical writer (10 years of software documentation) creating my first web page. I needed to learn tables and frames quickly. After patiently following the instructions (from Chapter 1 on), and manually entering the code from the samples provided in this book, I have learned enough html to do a page from scratch, and can implement tables and frames. In fact, I re-designed my web page twice-first using tables, then frames.

It's not a perfect book... I think I found all the typos in the code... but, searching for the errors reinforced my debugging skills. And nothing takes away the thrill of viewing the page and having everything click into place. Instant gratification!

All I can say to those who didn't like this book, is their learning styles must be different from mine. For me, it worked. And, I think manually entering the code (except for cheating on the Greeked text) did a lot to reinforce the concepts. This is a hands-on project... I am not a programmer, although I have had some programming classes. I certainly couldn't have grasped the elements by speed reading through the code. And, the graphics helped re-assure me I had everything in the right place.

This is my second Lemay book, and I can assure you I will be checking out the other titles.

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Summary: bugs? bugs! bugs!
Review: I bought the book. I already work with basic html daily at my workplace. I entered the code of the first 5 lessons in BBedit and ran the BBedit editor. What a mess!!

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