Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference [Paperback]

Doug Lowe (Author)

Book Description

Series: For Dummies | Publication Date: April 1998

This reference is designed to trim the fat off Web creation and provide essential information on designing, programming and posting a Web page. It covers the basics of designing pages that are appealing to the eye, basic HTML tags, adding graphics and sound to a page, inserting interactive forms and links, and posting pages to a server to be shared with the world. It also examines the top Web authoring tools and guides readers through using such software to simplify the process even further.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This is a great refresher book for the user who needs to work on Web pages occasionally--but it's also far more than a cheat sheet. Lowe assumes that you already know the basic mechanics of Web-site creation and covers all the bases in abbreviated form, from planning out a site to publicizing it. He offers good advice, helpful tips, and technical details in a form well suited to browsing and quick reference. In addition to offering highlights on actual site building, Lowe also helps you select software for your development tool kit, work with push technology, and get your page onto the Web.

The site-creation methods discussed include working with raw HTML as well as using software such as Microsoft FrontPage 98, Netscape Composer, and Microsoft Office. The book design allows for easy reference, as it is compact, takes up little desk space, and, with its comb-bound spine, opens flat to whatever page you select. --Elizabeth Lewis

From the Back Cover

Fast answers to frequently asked questions

Web page creation at your fingertips! If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you'll be working with popular Web authoring tools and creating dazzling Web sites in no time. This friendly A-to-Z guide has it all — from pointers on design to explanations on the hottest technologies, including XML and DHTML.

The Dummies Way^™ Concise, "get it done" information Helpful alphabetical organization Convenient lay-flat binding Icons and other navigational aids A dash of humor and fun

Get smart! www.dummies.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764503634
• ISBN-13: 978-0764503634
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,090,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doug Lowe is a veteran author of more than 40 For Dummies books with more than a million copies in print. He's covered everything from productivity software to programming.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful if you have some hands-on experience, November 3, 1999

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Geoffrey Brown (Taconic, CT United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference: A Quick Reference for the Rest of Us! (Spiral-bound)

This book is worth a lot more than its cover price. I need to be able to get up the curve VERY quickly about a lot of different software products. The book is valuable if for no other reason than it covers so many, albeit briefly: graphics programs, HTML editors, Java stuff, various office suites, browsers, etc. It won't tell you everything you need to know about MS FrontPage 2000, for example, but it will tell you enough to keep you out of serious trouble until you can learn the rest. It gave me enough information about FrontPage 2000 to get a 10 page site in FP2000 up and on the internet in less than 2 1/2 hours -- although I had previously build sites from scratch. The glossary was also good (the words don't change, but the meanings do). And it gave me a few good things to bicker about with my current ISP and in trying to find suitable ISPs for clients. It's a good and useful book. It doesn't get particularly technical, but there are other books to do that with when you find that you need to. On the other hand I can see that if you were really a newbie about the internet or building web sites when you pick it up, you might be a little bit disappointed.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to scratch, October 16, 1999

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Ruairi Dunne ([e-mail]) (Fife Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference: A Quick Reference for the Rest of Us! (Spiral-bound)

I think that this book is not all its cracked up to be. All it tells you is about front page Express, 98. In front page it gives you all the intructions you need so why go buy a book that I persumed would give me information on HTML progaramming . Do not buy this book if you have any sense.