HTML, Illustrated Complete, Second Edition (Illustrated Series) [Paperback]

Elizabeth Eisner Reding (Author), Sasha Vodnik (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0619018801 | ISBN-13: 978-0619018801 | Publication Date: January 10, 2001 | Edition: 2

Students learn how to create a Web page using HTML, format the page, add graphics to the page, and create forms with this highly visual, step-by-step introduction to HTML. Appendices are a terrific reference for locating and using HTML resources. Designed for a full-semester course on HTML.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Eisner Reding has authored many books for Course Technology. She has written on a variety of software programs, including Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Publisher, and HTML.

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 2 edition (January 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0619018801
• ISBN-13: 978-0619018801
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,766,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible. . . that's all there is to say about it!, March 18, 2002

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Kate Baynard "Cayt" (Owings Mills, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTML - Illustrated Complete (Paperback)

I was given this book in my Information Technology 3 course, in high school. At the beginning, I was happy to be learning HTML, as I'd always wanted to create my own website without the editors and such. After a few chapters of the book, however, I changed my mind. The layout is rather inappropriate. Each lesson is the same; they tell you step by step the process of making a webpage. This could be good, if they bothered to explain what they are doing. They plop down codes throughout the text, without giving you more than a sentence explaining their function and useages. In some cases, nothing at all is explained. The beginning of the book is simple but, by the time you're half finished, they've skipped the rest of the basics and moved on to DHTML. You'd think they'd teach you how to change font colors and background colors before they tell you how to do DHTML.

Overall, I despise the book. It skims the surface, leaving out very basic and important codes and such while moving too quickly on to the harder areas. There are errors and discrepencies throughout the book, which makes it even harder to understand. Nothing is explained and, when it comes to the independent study, you have no knowledge to use. They give you useless tasks, such as comparing the coding of 5 different pages in an essay and other [bad] tasks. Do not buy this book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for helping you Web pages stand out, August 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: HTML - Illustrated Complete (Paperback)

I own 10 other books on HTML, all of them are pretty informative and received 4 to 5 stars from other reads which is one of the big reasons I bought them. This book however, I came across by pure chance, and I am happy I did. I don't normally take the time to write reviews, but I felt the two reviews I read did such a misjustice to the book, I had to take the time and write this one. This book shows you how to do things I didn't even know was possible with HTML like creating 3D Animation with about ten lines of code and a image, creating tables that can be sorted in response to the user clicking on the column heading, and to many other things to name. As a matter of fact, after completing this book I don't even look at sites I was so impressed with the same, because I know I can build a better site. It is also the benchmark I use to rate abvanced HTML books.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Objectively, The worst book on HTML I have seen, November 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: HTML - Illustrated Complete (Paperback)

I had to buy this book as a text book for a subject that I have studied at the university. I have been initially impressed by the good print and colorful pages that it contains. I have seen alot of illustrations which made me feel quite confident. But unfortunately, when I took this book home, and started reading it, I found that it was full of repitition and totally irrelevant information. On each page it tells you exactly how you create a web page (it even mentiones that you must click on the File menu and then click on Open, each and every time), yet when it comes to what you bought the book for, it leaves it to your own guess to figure out how you should to do things. For example, a web page is shown, along with a code, but you find out after some confusion that the source code talks about something else, and was totally mispositioned. Another problem is that since no CD-ROM is shipped with the book, there is no way of getting the source code if you don't have an internet connection, so that you can download the code from the book's site. I think many other books will give you a much better value for your money, even if they were a little more expenssive.