Customer Reviews

HTML: Complete Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (Shelly Cashman)

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1 star:		(8)

 

 

This book has many links to some very good html sites. It also has six interresting programs, but they all have so many mistakes, some tags don't work on any of the major browsers, that you wonder if you should really trust this book, well I did not trust it, after a while I bought a book by Elizabeth Castro, HTML four(4) for the world wide web, it's a diammond in the rough, this is the one and only book on html that a student should buy. I am a student at Orange Coast College, California. Attn: Teachers and students do not buy this book until it has been totally revised.

I don't know what all of the fuss is about. This book is written in plain english with pictures to illustrate. I understood everything in this book perfectly. There are no mistakes in this book:everything works as its supposed to. I'm not certain what problems others are having. The only thing I can think of is that links and pictures are providing complications. The book assumes you have knowledge of the way folders work on a computer. So if it says enter sanddunes.jpg as an image or image link, you're supposed to have the common sense to know that on your computer its saved under a completely different set of folders. On your computer it might be saved under C:/documentsandsettings/.../.../sanddunes.jpg; you have to enter the entire address on the notepad to make it work. This is the only problem I can conceive others are having because the book is easy to follow, extremely efficient, and above all, accurate. If you are fluent in english you should be able to understand this book.

This book is very poorly designed, with errors on practically every page. For a student wanting to learn the basic concepts of HTML, this is not the book to buy unless you don't mind wasting 40 dollars to learn the wrong code, or outdated tags. I am very dissappointed in Shelly Cashman and that any editor would have even bothered to print this.

This book is produced as a textbook for a course in begining HTML. It contains 6 chapters. There are errors in every chapter. Tags and attributes are listed that don't exist and some output data is incorrect for the stated input. All the chapters are supposed to have tasks with rated difficulty ings,chapter 2 & 3 are not rated. Tables are poorly designed. Attributes are listed in a table without a heading of their tag. There are plenty of things wrong with this book. It doesn't deserve any stars. It should not be used in school nor is it reccomended as a tool for self-teaching. AVOID, AVOID, AND MAKE SURE YOU AVOID this disappointing book. Instead try HTML 4.0 from Quick Starts. One author of the book is named Smith.

I'm very upset at the fact that I paid for a book to learn HTML and I find myself confused at times because of the many mistakes in this so called "educational" book. The format is fairly simple to follow if it were not infested with poor proofreading in the code. If this were one of those books where you have to analyze and figure it out on your own, then it suffices, but it's not, or at least it's not suppose to be. I would not recommend this book to anyone who really needed to learn on account of what they're trying to teach is sporadically wrong. Thanks for your time.

This book has so many errors in it, it is unbelievable and somewhat humorous. I could name a few for example, but you have a 1,000 word limit. I am in an HTML class at O.C.C. There are so many errors that the teacher is giving extra credit for people that find errors. I think there are going to be more "A"'s than ever before. I would have rated the book 0 stars, but that field is required to have something in it.

This book gives the reader a step by step tutorial on how to make an html page. Each chapter in this book shows you a new code/tags but combines the previous code/tags you learn. For example, the reader will learn how to bring in an image or multiple images in html, combine different font colors in the body and text, and use hyperlinks and more. The reader will find themselves using codes from the previous chapter everytime they start a new html page i believe this method will help the reader remember the tags better. I am not done reading this book, but everytime I read this book I am learning something new which helps me become more skilled at html.

This book is a great step by step guide for people willing to learn HTML the easy way. My personal experience that it has many colorful images that guide you through the process and show you even the steps that you might have forgot from the earlier chapters. This book is used in my college for the online HTML introductory class.

Great buy even if you want to learn the material yourself. You just need to find the chapter contents that you are going to be working with(presumably there is a disk or online download).

This is a VERY poorly done book! There are numurous mistakes, omissions, and transpositions throughout the entire book and the figures shown as examples don't follow the text, leaving you to wonder which is correct. Wait until a proofread version is done or find another book.

This book was required for an HTML class that I am attending at Orange Coast College in California. I am disappointed at the fact that it was seemingly not proof read for mistakes before publishing. I did learn alot from the book. I had never been exposed to HTML before this class, and I found this book to be a little hard to follow at times. I think that the material is there, it just needs a going through by a professional proof reader before its next release. This book is OK at half the price.