How to Program HTML Frames: Interface Design and Javascript

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Summary: To Frame Or Not Frame
Review: I brough this book on a whim (thanks Amazon). After designing several websites I've been wanting to design a framed site for the longest but have been very skeptical about it (browser issues) - until reading this book. This book is definitely for the beginner to the intermediate programmer/designer. The best part about the book is that it's not written from a "expert" point of view. I did find some of step by step lessons a bit sketchy but overall it's a descent book to get you up to speed on frames.

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Summary: It sits on my Web design reference shelf
Review: I found this book cleanly and clearly explains how to integrate frames into web design. Examples and illustrations reenforce how to do things. I've looked at it more than a few times to check things when I am working.

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Summary: It sits on my Web design reference shelf
Review: Neither a reference, a guide, a tutorial, nor a workbook. Toss out the glossy color images, reduce the oversized font, sift it down to the actual useful information, and this book could be printed on two pages. If the author indeed asked himself why an entire book should be devoted to HTML: Frames, perhaps he could have spared us all his answer and just produced a phamplet. The sophomoric quasi-historical segment at the beginning of the book was perhaps added merely to meet some minimal weight requirement. Ziff-Davis Press sinks to new lows. One wonders at the propriety of using this as a required text in a web based course offered by... Ziff-Davis! This is one you will definitely want to throw away. Spend your money on a decent text, one which you'll be glad to hang on to and use as a reference.

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Summary: Does one thing and does it extremely well
Review: This book had tips and information I needed to build my 1st framed site that were nowhere else to be found, even in much more expensive and 'expert' books. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: 'Must have' book for better web building
Review: This book is my most used reference book on web design. I would recommend it to anyone who wanted to create a better, more interesting, web site. Jason deals with design and includes lots of things that could and should be avoided. For those who are tired of learning how to say 'Hi!' in C, C++, VB, Perl, ad.infinum, and want to accomplish something while they are learning, this book is a blessing.