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HTML 4 for Dummies Quick Reference

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This book is fantastic! I learned enough HTML from this book to start producting my own web pages. It covers all the basics and enough on frames and CSS that I can play around with them also. Being a quick reference, it cuts thru the wordiness of regular texts and gets the the point. It has a color cheat sheet in the front, however I found that it is not a true color reference and I have to use the color palet on one of my HTML editors for true color. Still, it is the best HTML book that I have (so far).

This is a very handy book. I use it more than any other HTML book that I own, because it is small, and easy to take with me. It's not supposed to be an extensive reference, buy it for what it was intended, and you will be happy.

I use this book all the time. The spiral edition was a great idea, it allows me to lay it flat so I can read and work at the same time. Perfect reference tool for learning basic to advanced HTML. Has a very handy color "cheat sheet" in the front to change your font colors quickly, and easily. I recomend this book highly.

I love this book! 7 years ago, when I was in high school, I knew nothing about HTML, so I picked up this book. And it really helped me learn fast!

Each of the book's lessons is hands-on, which makes it so much easier to pick up. It teaches you HTML by having you type the codes into the Notepad program, and saving the file as an .html instead of a .txt file. Then, when you open it up, it appears in webpage format, and you can quickly edit and play around with the codes in Notepad to see what kind of different results you get. Actually, even to this day, I still use a Notepad program instead of one of those fancy page-creator programs. I like keepin' it DIY, Old School, baby!

Some of the things the book covers:
- how to use different fonts
- how to put in images
- how to make an image map (so when you click on different parts of the image, you're sent to different links)
- how to create basic tables
- how to create numbered and bulleted lists
- how to make frames

Even though the book won't teach you some of the fancier stuff you see on webpages, like how to use non-bordered tables for layout design, or how to make text change when you roll your mouse cursor over it, it will teach you how to be able to learn those things. Since the book taught me how to view the source code of webpages and how to understand code in the first place, whenever I went to someone's website and saw something cool I liked, I just viewed their source code to see how they were able to do those things. This is all perfectly fine; just DON'T STEAL SOMEONE ELSE'S LAYOUT. Not cool, people. Just see how others do things, and use those techniques to make something of your own design.

Once you learn the basics of HTML, it's easy to pick up that fancy stuff. There's plenty of tutorial sites on the web and thick HTML reference books at the library that'll give you the codes for that. And this book definitely gives you the foundation for learning those things.

This is the first HTML book I bought and it's become my favorite. Not only did I learn how to build a webpage from scratch, I continue to learn new tricks from it every time I dip inside. This is great if you want to learn how to code your pages and not rely on templates. There's also a quick and handy color code guide in the back.

Before I bought this one, I had two pendaflex folders full of cheat sheets on syntax, tricks, etc. that I would paw through when I was trying to get a certain result. Now I'm down to this book and about 20 individual sheets of paper. I think that's evidence that the book is a nice job. Only complaint is that it should have more specifics on META tags. When setting up an automatic link (HTTP-EQUIV) to a new page from an old one the other day, I had to go back to my old "cheat sheets" as the book wasn't QUITE adquate in this area. But still highly recommended -- the color chart in the front is worth the price by itself.

This was the best $15.00 (marked down to $11.00 -- you save $3.99!) I ever spent. This book breaks down HTML in logical, no-nonsense fashion. I was able to go from never writing anything to working full-time as a web page designer in about a year (thanks in part to using Photoshop, as well). Re-invent yourself, while there's still time!

I had new a little html before I got this book but after I got this book my web pages went from looking like something a high school freshman could do after a weekend to something that looks fairly professional I really enjoyed this book and will be getting java for dummies also if it half as good as this one

I am using the book in conjunction with an online course...the book has really helped give me some background into HTML and web design/development. I have found it very useful and think this will be a great reference in the future.

This book is great for beginners and as a quick reference for those tags you just cant remember. It has a very handy reference section in the back, and the book itself it very well organized, as is the back. It covers everything up to style sheets, and I think there is a MORE HTML 4.0 for Dummies Quick Reference which I also plan to get. This book is good overall, but it does not have all of the HTML tag attributes, which I have had to find online. Good book overall!