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Summary: Not necessary
Review: If you have a computer, and you want to learn HTML, you could save the money and go to sites like webmonkey that will teach you the same things, and more, for free. It was a good place to start, and it was useful, but I can use web references quicker, easier, and cheaper.
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Summary: A MUST Dummie Reader!!******!
Review: If you like the other Dummie books, you will loooooove HTML 4 for Dummies. Now, it's no book, but if you are a cybergeek, you will want HTML4 for Dummies. Trust me, it's every thin you'll ever need.
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Summary: Does not get to the point
Review: Instead of just explaining the tags and showing examples the book goes into long-winded discussions on how things work -- discussions that amount to nothing more than filler, which the reader must sort through in order to find the information he needs. It is a very basic book. I just purchased it and could not wait to learn HTML. After reading the first chapters I actually became disgusted. It does not get to the point or even teach you the way a book should instruct you.
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Summary: Beware of spam below!
Review: Notice 1)how all three reviews below were posted on practically the same day and there hasn't been another review since. 2)how all three reviews say pretty much the same thing...nothing! And 3)how all three reviewers gave it 5 stars. The "helpful" ratings were even spammed. Or maybe I'm wrong....naaaah
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Summary: A POORLY written dummies book
Review: The book was awful. The book always goes of subject by showing you the design of a webpage instead of the actual HTML. Get another book on HTML if you want to learn HTML. If you want to make a good looking webpage then get it because thats all this book is about for the most part.
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Summary: a REFERENCE for the rest of us.
Review: They really live up to that subtitle in this one. Chapter 6 is a reference. This is however what I needed, because I already had written some html code, but was unhappy with the code the tools were creating. Remember, YOU DO NOT NEED A BOOK TO LEARN HTML! However, a book can help you improve the your html code. If you do need a book to learn html, then your going to have much larger problems because html is the tip of the iceburg, it's what the user sees and uses to communicate with the CGI script running on the server. May all the gods help you if you need more hand holding then any HTML book would provide. You could print the reference from the web, but, that will not look as pretty on the shelf. I'm a programmer for FamilyHomeSearch.com, and use the book as a reference to make the generated html code from Microsoft Front Page 2000, more efficient.
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Summary: This book will get you writing web pages easily.
Review: This book contained a lot of useful information and lots of references (as most Dummies books do.) This book will get you writing HTML painlessly (as it is not hard to learn.) If you buy this book you will learn HTML, end of story. (Obviously, for more advanced features you will need other books.) Great for beginners!
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Summary: This is the most useless HTML book I have seen
Review: This book could have been about 200 pages shorter if they left out the redundant info on content and style of content. I would call this book "Keep it simple silly" as they must mention the KISS theory about 400 times. While I did get a better understanding of HTML after reading it. I was surely not prepared to make much of a web page when I was done digesting these 400 pages. I suggest picking it up at the library as I did and then getting a HTML reference book. Heck you can just go to WebMonkey or some other tutorial web site and learn just as much but quicker. It served it's usefullness but I would never buy it or reference back to it after reading it.
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Summary: Satisfactory job of explaining HTML language to new user
Review: This book could have been about 200 pages shorter if they left out the redundant info on content and style of content. I would call this book "Keep it simple silly" as they must mention the KISS theory about 400 times. While I did get a better understanding of HTML after reading it. I was surely not prepared to make much of a web page when I was done digesting these 400 pages. I suggest picking it up at the library as I did and then getting a HTML reference book. Heck you can just go to WebMonkey or some other tutorial web site and learn just as much but quicker. It served it's usefullness but I would never buy it or reference back to it after reading it.
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Summary: Good Book, but not what i expected
Review: This book is a book that can be described as "good." I will let you decide whether that is good or not. This book provides people with little knowledge of HTML a basic reference. It is usually off topic(talking about the web in general, not just HTML) and usually that would be good but they talk about the web so much that the subject of HTML is not fully covered. Another bad point is that these people really do think that you are stupid. After reading about HTML off the internet I knew more than book teaches you. I went out and bought HTMLGoodies and learned much more, much easier. Another bad thing is that the authors think that they are funny(and they're not!) They write things and then the put a joke, usually in parentheses with an exclamation point after it.(haha!)<-- Just like that Overall this book does not cover the topic fully and doesn't ever stay to the point. Dummies books have grown so popular that the authors begin to think that they are legends and anything that they write we will eat up. This is not the case and if they could see it from a normal person's perspective then they could realize that they are not fit to be authors. I would not recommend this book to anyone because better books are out there. Try HTMLGoodies :)
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