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HTML 4 for Dummies
written by Ed Tittel, Natanya Pitts
Studio : Hungry Minds Inc
by Hungry Minds Inc
Publisher : Hungry Minds Inc
Released : 1999-07
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780764505720
UPC : 785555008380
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 70 reviews)
List Price : $24.99
Our Price : $8.95
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Internet and networking experts Tittel and Pitts refresh their bestseller with updated examples and valuable search tools that make using HTML 4 easier than ever. The CD-ROM contains a new Java-based search tool for understanding the function of HTML 4 tags. 50 illustrations. |
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Americancivilwar.com Review |
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HTML 4 for Dummies provides an introduction to Web publishing, but it contains less information than it should. If you don't know HTML at all, you'll be able to extract some worthwhile information from these pages. But if you're at all familiar with HTML and want this book to bring you up to speed on what's new in the HTML 4 specification, you'll be disappointed. The book presents a super-simple "Hello, World" HTML document that illustrates the most basic structure of an HTML document. The authors then spend 100 pages flailing around with confusing discussions of organization and graphic design. (Sample sentence: "The Web is both a cooperative and a competitive environment; it depends on interdependence, but it's impatient with boredom.") Eventually, they get back to the information about tags that the intended audience needs--and they do a good job of explaining how to build headers, images, links, tables, and frames with HTML code. But the coverage would be better if they had included more illustrations of what the tags do. The discussion of cascading style sheets (CSS) is feeble, and there's no DHTML (dynamic HTML) code in evidence at all. Your best bet is to look for a better HTML 4 text for beginners. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is a good choice, as is HTML 4 Bible. --David Wall |
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haven't gotten that far in the book. But so far so good. I give it an A+ |
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Great Book |
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I'm never disappointed with Dummies books and this one is no exception. Great read, easy to learn. |
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A baby steps book |
This is not a book for jumping into WEB development. It claims to be but it really is not.
It's a good intro book for HTML for the absolute beginner. But, I must mention you have to be a reader versus an examples person. There is a great deal of discussion and only so much code examples. However, it did answer a couple questions.
I found this book good for getting to know what is out there. The book offers useful links to sites for getting more information. This saved time and it offers a "warm fuzzy" since it is suggested versus wandering around the Net.
The book also suggests some tools to use which again saved a little time.
I don't know if I would call this a good reference book. For example, it lightly touches CSS, XHTML and CGI and the design suggestions? Well you probably could get a design book to handle that better as I think they are rather basic in this book.
If you can get it from the library or get it used, it might be worth a look.
If you understand basic HTML, you might avoid it. |
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Just another Dummy! |
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As a novice or someone thinking about working with HTML, I think this book was over my head. If one had some background in HTML they could probably make full/better use of its content. Pork Chops and Applesauce: A Collection of Recipes and Reflections |
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and I always thought dummies books were for complete beginners... |
Caveat emptor to the absolute beginner. This book is not written for the beginning web page creator. It is not written in a tutorial style. It is good as a reference source as you study a true tutorial type book. It discusses tags and their attributes one at a time without showing you how they fit into your web page code. The beginning chapters throw lots of advanced features at you and tell you they will be discussed in chapter 19 etc.
I was completely overwhelmed after 20 min of reading. So what's a beginner to do? I recommend Create Your First Web Page in a Weekend. By the time you get half way through that book then you can use this dummies book as a reference.
william
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