Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Guide for Beginners
Review: I found this to be an excellent way to learn HTML. What most people consider "filler text" I found to be in depth explanations of how and why HTML works. It is not a quick reference book, that is why there is a HTML 4 for Dummies: Quick Reference. It is also not an advanced book, but it does cover almost every aspect of HTML, the only problem being that HTML is not a very advanced language. If you want advanced info, find books on Javascript, but for the beginning HTML writer, this is an excellent rescource.
Rating:
Summary: The only way to get started by yourself
Review: I hate to say that this whole leave-a-review thing on Amazon[.com] is a total waste of time, but I have a high suspicion that many of the people leaving "wisdom" have ulterior motives. I.e., the competition tries to make the product look bad, and, by the same token, the book's publisher submits a fantastic review.I can't understand how people have given this book a bad rating. I'm a smart guy, went to Princeton, honors math and physics there, but haven't done computers in 15 years. Acutally started with Dreamseaver for Dummies then realized I needed to learn HTML. Unlike other books, I was able to read through the entire book, chapter by chapter. The rambling non-code-related text was very helpful in understanding the background for much of the text...something one would get in one-on-one lessions. The background info also broke up the technical secitons to make them bareable The book was a breeze to go through. I know HTML now, at least the basics, and using Dreamweaver to do sites makes a whole lot more sense now, too. As an aside, I had tried several other books on Dreamweaver and was totally unable to get started...until I got Dreamweaver for Dummies. The other books are perhaps a little better as references, but Dummies is by far the best at teaching the basics.
Rating: 
Summary: This is the worst I have ever read on HTML
Review: I learned HTML with out any book. All I did was look at the document source of some of the pages I went to and found out how to write the HTML. But I wanted to learn more so I got this book. If I did't know how to write HTML before I got this book I would not know how to write it. I have another book that is really good it is "Web Publishing with HTML 4 in a week. You don't need a big expensive book to learn something as basic as HTML. It is the easiest language out there. You could just teach yourself!
Rating:
Summary: Must Buy
Review: I learned so much from this book. However, I recommend reading Creating Web Pages for Dummies first because it really does the basics. But, this book will be great by itself.
Rating:
Summary: High expectations crushed
Review: I love dummies books so I had high expectations up until chaper 6. I actually started to feel ill trying to grasp all of the tag information contained in this 1000(actually 100)page chapter. The problem was that there were no examples in this relatively huge chapter to help clarify all of the information.Granted, examples for each tag were supplied on the CD which came with the book but there are 100s of sites out there which will gladly teach HTML for free!I wanted a good book because I didnt want to HAVE to be glued to my computer to memorize tags. This book could have been awsome if it didnt rely so heavily on the CD.The CD should compliment the info in the book- not suppliment it.An additional 50-100 pages of backup examples could have saved this book in my humble opinion.
Rating: 
Summary: This is the most useless HTML book I have seen
Review: I love HTML and I've got lots of books about it at home. So far as I am concerned, this is the worst. There's at least half of the content that could be demolished. It kept saying things over and over again and that space would at least take 1/5 of the whole book. It didn't explain HTML properly (which is the most basic thing), it doesn't much helps beginners nor experts. this is really a FOUL book. There's HEAPS of other books with this prize better than this book ten times! Remember: If you're planning to learn or improve your HTML, do NOT buy this book.
Rating: 
Summary: A Must-Buy for Dummies
Review: I purchased this book mostly for learning advanced HTML features such as tables and frames but at the same time I learned a couple new nifty tags. They spend a little too much time talking about the web in general as if that you're reading an Internet for Dummies book rather than an HTML for Dummies book. But don't worry, that quickly changes over to a discussion of how important HTML really is to the web and what role it plays. Everything is organized nicely and is very simple. The humor was a bit dry compared to some other dummies books I've read but overall, it's a wonderful reference material worth spending 20 bucks on.
Rating:
Summary: For dummies, in a way.
Review: I simply expected this book to educate me about how to use HTML code. There is too much unwanted subjective advice on what makes good content for a web page. The technical explanation of HTML code is confused and poorly organized. The authors' shameless self-promotion -- using their own company's website to serve in the examples throughout the book -- undermines their integrity as writers of educational material.
Rating:
Summary: Redundant
Review: I've bought a few dummies books through the years and the one common theme throughout them all is REDUNDANCY. They repeat the same things over and over ad nauseaum. Do your self a favor and pickup the basics (all you'll get from this book)at any number of online sites. Do a google search of Basic HTML and you'll get a lot of sites and will teach you more than this book and it's FREE! Please avoid this junk. Besides who do they think they're calling dummies? You're only a dummy if you buy there products. Just call me a reformed dummy.
Rating:
Summary: Redundant
Review: I've bought a few dummies books through the years and the one common theme throughout them all is REDUNDANCY. They repeat the same things over and over ad nauseaum. Do your self a favor and pickup the basics (all you'll get from this book)at any number of online sites. Do a google search of Basic HTML and you'll get a lot of sites and will teach you more than this book and it's FREE! Please avoid this junk. Besides who do they think they're calling dummies? You're only a dummy if you buy there products. Just call me a reformed dummy.
| 
