Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Todd Stauffer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 9, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0789728958 | ISBN-13: 978-0789728951 | Edition: 2

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages assumes that readers are true beginners - no prior Web page experience is necessary!

This hands-on tutorial teaches readers the fundamentals of creating Web pages, along with more advanced ideas like message areas, chat, and e-commerce options to make the page look like it was created by a professional. The book begins by explaining the need for HTML and the basics of good Web page design. It then covers using HTML tags and tools, formatting text, adding images, and building links. Later chapters demonstrate how to add features to Web pages including tables, colors, frames, multimedia content, JavaScript, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. The author has also included several hundred pages of useful additional information, perfect for the beginning Web designer.

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From the Back Cover

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages assumes that readers are true beginners - no prior Web page experience is necessary!

This hands-on tutorial teaches readers the fundamentals of creating Web pages, along with more advanced ideas like message areas, chat, and e-commerce options to make the page look like it was created by a professional. The book begins by explaining the need for HTML and the basics of good Web page design. It then covers using HTML tags and tools, formatting text, adding images, and building links. Later chapters demonstrate how to add features to Web pages including tables, colors, frames, multimedia content, JavaScript, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. The author has also included several hundred pages of useful additional information, perfect for the beginning Web designer.

About the Author

Todd Stauffer is the author or co-author of more than 25 computing books, including HTML Web Publishing 6-in-1, HTML by Example with Ann Navarro, and Creating Your Own AOL Web Page with Andy Shafran. Stauffer has written for a number of magazines, including Publish magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter, Working Woman, and MacAddict.

Todd has worked as an advertising writer, technical writer, and magazine editor, all in consumer-oriented computing. Outside of computing, he's also a humor columnist and a travel/automotive writer. You can reach him via his Web site, at http://www.mac-upgrade.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Que; 2 edition (November 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789728958
• ISBN-13: 978-0789728951
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,136,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for learning html code, August 9, 2004

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H. Bresser (Puyallup, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages (Paperback)

I read this book three times then coded my first site. I knew nothing about html prior to reading the book.

It was fantastic to read a book that not only explained in fairly plain English what each tag is and how it works, it showed easy examples and lessons to follow.

Highly recommend this book to those who want to create their own website!

Heather
Owner, www.AssistantForYou.com

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not For Absolute Beginners is a better title, May 19, 2006

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blacy (Cruising Eastern US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I am a true beginner, wondering how the heck to get a simple website started. I read the first 5 chapters, and I still don't know. Some very basic information seems to be missing, such as "How do I get the info from my computer to my web page? Can I preview what I'm doing? etc."

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The title is misleading.., May 2, 2004

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Rockchik "a reader" (white lake, michigan USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Sounds like a 'for dummies' book but is very far from it. Saying 'web pages' is simplified. This book covers site design from scratch minus the details and makes simple work of a convoluted subject. It doesn't show you simple web page stuff but is a complete outline of the entire web site design/development field. Incredible. From this, I can choose what complexities I wish to delve into further without chasing after marginally useful technologies. Being in the computer field since before PC's, I prefer simple straightforward explanations and find techspeak boring. For a book written in latter 2003, I find it far more current than some 2004 books I've seen. the future of the web is moving to simplified (thank you!) and being versed in structured computer development, this is the first time I've been able to garner any excitement for web design.
I've read all the IBM manauals I care to. This book does not talk down to you but it does cover from the basics. Not for the AOL user but more for a Compuserve sort. I'm so glad I chose this as my intro. My only gripe is the additional 'online' chapters located on the publisher's website were to be download files so I expected a pdf or something but instead found viewable pages sans the 'figures' (pictures) accompanying the text. Also, the author refers FAQs and things to his personal website which no longer exists. not kool. But the book's merits (including the price) still warrant 5 stars in my book.