HTML Complete Course [Paperback]

Donna L. Baker (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764540920 | ISBN-13: 978-0764540929 | Publication Date: October 10, 2003

Written by a Web design expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the ins and outs of HTML, the language of the Web, while working on a single project. Fifteen sessions and nearly 100 step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through building a slick, fully functional Web site from start to finish, using HTML and JavaScript(TM). After completing the course, you'll have an impressive portfolio piece, a professional-looking Web site you can adapt to meet your needs, and a thorough understanding of HTML fundamentals. All of the files used to build the Web site conform to XHTML and CSS standards.

CD-ROM Contents
* Image viewing and editing tools PhotoPlus and Irfanview freeware versions
* WS_FTP Pro software that lets you connect to a Web server to upload, modify, and download your Web site files
* HandyTools for Web Designers power pack freeware version, including Handy File Find & Replace, Handy ImageMapper, Gif Color Mapper, ColourSpy, and Gradientex
* Images and all the files needed to complete the project

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Written by a Web design expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the ins and outs of HTML, the language of the Web, while working on a single project. Fifteen sessions and nearly 100 step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through building a slick, fully functional Web site from start to finish, using HTML and JavaScript™. After completing the course, you’ll have an impressive portfolio piece, a professional-looking Web site you can adapt to meet your needs, and a thorough understanding of HTML fundamentals. All of the files used to build the Web site conform to XHTML and CSS standards.

CD-ROM Contents

• Image viewing and editing tools PhotoPlus and Irfanview freeware versions
• WS_FTP Pro software that lets you connect to a Web server to upload, modify, and download your Web site files
• HandyTools for Web Designers power pack freeware version, including Handy File Find & Replace, Handy ImageMapper, Gif Color Mapper, ColourSpy, and Gradientex
• Images and all the files needed to complete the project

About the Author

Donna L. Baker is a veteran graphic designer, information developer, and instructor who built her first Web site in 1993. She is the author of Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 Complete Course, and writes monthly articles on Web design and graphics applications for the online magazine WindoWatch.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764540920
• ISBN-13: 978-0764540929
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,389,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Today the teacher becomes the student!, October 29, 2003

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTML Complete Course (Paperback)

You know how to tell is a book is a good learning tool? Take the book and give it to someone with little or no experience in the subject matter, have them read and try the material and exercise and see if they understand what they are doing. That's exactly what I did with this book, I had a couple of people with little web design experience try random exercises and they were able to design and comprehend the material.

I spent several hours working with the files on the cd and the labs, and when I finished I was well on the way to creating websites. The book uses Notepad as the editor and while this works very well, I used HTML Notepad as my editor and it worked as well. In future release the author may want to include that in the cd.

Everything is included from basic tags to frames and forms. You be working with Style sheets to image maps and logos and just about everything in between. This is one of the best classroom books I have ever seen or worked with and in future HTML Class I teach this is going too considered as the book of choice.

The cd included has other utilizes for web design as well as all the files need to perform the labs. If you are serious about starting a career in Web Design, than take some time to check out this book.

Overall this is simply of the best books for HTML and I highly recommend it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Am I glad I got this book!, October 16, 2003

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Joe (Paso Robles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTML Complete Course (Paperback)

I had never worked with HTML before, but wanted to put up my own Web site without buying expensive software like Dreamweaver or FrontPage. This book actually made HTML coding fun. The book and accompanying CD included everything I needed to create a professional-looking site on the cheap. Full color throughout is a nice touch too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The first computer book that made me want to write a review!, January 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: HTML Complete Course (Paperback)

As someone who writes a little HTML now and then, I've accumulated several books on HTML going back to Version 3.2.

This is the best one yet, because it takes you one step at a time through each facet of HTML, letting you understand the various tags and attributes by having you use all of them in a logical progression until you have created a complete site.

I'm using the book basically as a review, while learning to write using XHTML, using CSS to describe all the formatting--which is not the way I learned the first time.

The lessons are fun, and easy to follow. I would have given it 5 stars, if there were not a few mistakes here and there that should have been caught in the editing process.