Customer Reviews

Creating Web Pages with HTML, Comprehensive

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3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

I have used this text for a university self-study course. The students have found it very useful. Because so many graphics are made available from the publisher's web site, very impressive web pages can be created from the beginning.

I had the pleasure of using this book in a upper-level web page design class. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. The following are a few comments on the glitch side of things:
1) On 2.24 there is a serious error. I think the authors switched "rock" and "links".
2) RGB triplets in decimal were introduced without sufficient background on p. 3.49.
3) Case 3 in Tutorial 4 was more of a chore than I think was useful. More on this later.
4) I'm left unclear about how the underlining occurs bottom p. 6.48-top p. 6.49. Presumably this has to be done by the HTML coder.
5) The expression "background-image:repeat-x" is wrong.
6) I think it might have been better to have initialized XDay's day and month the same way that its year was initialized, i.e., using "setDate()" and "setMonth()". Or the student could be encouraged to find an alternative to what was proposed in the text.
7) The dense array technique for population an array seems easier to grasp than the one offered on p. 8.36, although I am not objecting to the authors' way of populating that array. Again, the existence of alternatives could be underlined.
8) I didn't see any use made of the javascript roll-over, which seems a pity.

General observations:
1) The authors should have been more generous with their bibliographical material. There are some wonderful online tutorials which could have enriched the textbook.
There are also some wonderful historical materials about the internet to which students could have been refered.
2) The problems were imaginative, but too spoon-fed. I guess it's really up to the instructor to ask the students to put in their own text, etc. For the instructor, this makes checking to what extent a student did his own work well-nigh impossible.

I plan to use this book next time I teach this class, but will have learned how to work around some of its weaknesses. It is, however, far and away the best book I have seen for a classroom situation. Patrick Carey et al. are to be congratulated.

This is a practical self study book. The author" Patrick Carey"
takes you step by step to learn the proper HTML syntax. Each chapter is full of hands on examples. The first 6 chapters are
designated to HTML, and 1 chapter about Cascade style sheet, which covers almost all CSS1 and CSS2. The author teaches you the basics, and then moves you to more advance topics. There are also 2 chapters geared to Java script. The book is an excellent book, I recommend it to any one that has no knowledge of HTML and wants to learn it 1 step at a time, you'll also learn CSS(cascade style sheet) which will take your web site into a higher stage. In addition, the book includes lessons on Javascript in order to make your web site Dynamic. The book gets 5 stars.

I am new to programming, however have extensive spreadsheet experience and have taken several programming courses in college. I found this book an excellent book for learning HTML on your own. I had to purchase this book for a course and found I picked up more from reading the book than listening in class. The subject matter flows very consistently and the examples and accompanying CD makes it very easy to learn HTML. Again being a beginner, I would highly recommend this book.

When I took an Internet class in HTML web design through the local community college, this is the book that was used. I already had some basic HTML knowledge and was looking to expand it. I got a lot of useful information from this book, and use it as a reference guide to this day. I liked the emphasis on Netscape as browser of choice (chances are, if it looks good in Netscape it'll look good in IE) and the way they taught tables by measuring in percentages rather than counting pixels -- this "liquid table" approach will make your page look good on smaller, older monitors. Even though I am dead set against using frames on any of my pages, it was interesting to learn how to make them. Particularly intriguing was the chapter on how to create javascripts -- even though I never quite got the darn things to work, I go back and tussle with it now and again.

This book does have some errors in it, which have been pointed out by other reviewers. Filenames really should be all lower case (and try to keep it to 8 characters, 3-character extension if you can). In the hypothetical where you're using various kinds of tables to create an announcement about a meditation seminar, I found no way to get it to look exactly like the example using the code they said to use -- I had to add a couple of extra paragraph tags here and there. Things like that are a bit offputting, but I definitely recommend this book for beginners and people who are intimidated by the thought of handcoding. Along with the HTML Primer at ...,it remains if not my Bible, at least my Guideposts.

Like many required textbooks it is overpriced and there are better books available. It's still cheaper here than most other outlets and it does provide one more reference to turn to.

This book was required for an online summer course. Material in book covered what was expected from the teacher.

I bought this book for a college-level course on HTML Programming. The text is fairly easy to follow and provides clear examples and "modules" to learn from. I didn't really need to take the class to learn. This book taught me more than my teacher did. If you read the text and attempt to do the activities as the book explains them, you learn quickly. Drawbacks...the book isn't as organized as some of the others in this series (New Perspectives) It's a little harder to look up a specific function. Advantages...like the other books in the series, it does a good job of preparing you to take the MOUS certification exams, or just to give yourself a basic knowledge of the subject. I would recommend this and the other books in the series.

I bought this book for a college-level course on HTML Programming. The text is fairly easy to follow and provides clear examples and "modules" to learn from. I didn't really need to take the class to learn. This book taught me more than my teacher did. If you read the text and attempt to do the activities as the book explains them, you learn quickly. Drawbacks...the book isn't as organized as some of the others in this series (New Perspectives) It's a little harder to look up a specific function. Advantages...like the other books in the series, it does a good job of preparing you to take the MOUS certification exams, or just to give yourself a basic knowledge of the subject. I would recommend this and the other books in the series.

I bought this book for an HTML class I was taking and I've really enjoyed it. This book is great for beginner to moderate level HTML. It's easy to understand and has lots of graphics and helpful links for further reference. It has a handy 'tag reference' in the back that lists each tag, what it's used for, and how to use it. And it has a great index for finding exactly what you need quickly. Even after the class was over, I still use this book frequently when working on my personal web page.