The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website [Paperback]

Paul McFedries (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide | Publication Date: October 7, 2008

The essential guide for getting the internet traffic every smallbusiness owner needs. CD included.

Today’s small-business websites require advanced features that visitors expect: streaming video and audio; e-commerce; custom surveys, forms, and polls; and discussion groups. This book covers all the basics of creating and publicizing a successful webpage.

•Free CD includes JavaScript and numerous templates
•Everything from design and publishing the site to automating and publicizing It
•100 million websites as of 2006—and it keeps on growing
•Simple and easy how-to for small businesses and organizations that can’t afford a professional web designer

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Paul McFedries has been programming computers since the mid- 1970s. He has written more than 50 computer books that have sold nearly three million copies. He is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Windows Vista.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; Pap/Cdr edition (October 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592577881
• ISBN-13: 978-1592577880
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #465,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul McFedries runs Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company, and has been writing computer books for more than 17 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than 60 books that have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Paul is also the proprietor of Wordspy.com, a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great way to learn HTML, July 22, 2009

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JUmom (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website (Paperback)

I didn't feel I had enough of the big picture from this book to be able to just make a website by myself. However, IF I wanted to learn HTML I would definitely use this book! He is VERY clear and understandable on the code and his examples are pretty funny. I actually enjoyed him as an author. After reading the code section of this book, though, I decided I didn't want to learn HTML that bad (lots of details, and that is not my strong suit). But if I did . . . I would use this book. I'm going back to my brainless free google site now.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a big help, December 3, 2008

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Bill S. (Washington State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website (Paperback)

Now, I consider myself to be reasonably computer literate. Not an expert, but I've managed to get myself out of some reasonably complicated computer glitches by researching and reading info about the problems I was experiencing.

The other day, I checked this book out from the library that I thought would be interesting and perhaps raise my intellectual level another notch. I figured I would buy it if I thought it would be a help. The book? The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website by Paul McFedries. I was hoping it would be useful, or at least give me some insight into the process of building a website. I must be an even more "complete idiot" than the average "complete idiot". I couldn't even make sense of the Introduction let alone any of the other pages. To understand this book I believe you have to already be website savvy. Then you might actually make progress beyond the cover. Most of the "Idiot's" books start out at a reasonably simple level and bring the reader along at a nice pace. Not this one. This example begins at a high level with little explanation of the basics and goes up from there. So much for raising my intellectual level. In defense of the book, the cover was pretty, and it came with a round shiny disc.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not for beginners, August 19, 2011

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Clyde - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website (Paperback)

I'm really sorry I bought this book and agree with other negative reviews. It is not for beginners. I got to the point of typing McFedries exact examples into notepad just to see if they would open in my browser. They didn't. A waste of money. I wonder if the Complete Idiot's Guide series actually checks manuscripts. This book is folksy but not helpful.