HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.2 and HTML Extensions (Sourcebooks) [Paperback]

Ian S. Graham (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471175757 | ISBN-13: 978-0471175759 | Publication Date: March 10, 1997 | Edition: 3

"The most effective way to learn how to write HTML pages. . . A complete, step-by-step guide to designing, editing, and managing Web pages." —PC Magazine

"For HTML sophisticates, HTML Sourcebook will fill in gaps in your expertise and point you in new directions as you design your Internet facades." —Library Journal

Critics everywhere agree, HTML Sourcebook is the best guide to HTML for Web professionals. That's because no other book makes it so easy for you to quickly master all the commands, tools, and expert techniques you need to create cutting-edge Web page documents.

Completely revised and expanded by nearly 50 percent, this new Third Edition of the bestselling guide to HTML gives you the complete lowdown on all the changes and enhancements to the HTML, HTTP, and URL standards. It also provides in-depth coverage of primary and support technologies that directly impact on creating professional-quality Web pages. Find out everything you need to know about:

• HTML 3.2 and the new HTML stylesheet capabilities
• Proprietary and experimental extensions from Netscape and Microsoft
• HTML support for new multimedia technologies
• The latest ways to use HTML in conjunction with Java and Netscape to create the most advanced Web pages
• Designing customized CGI programs and HTML forms
• Linking JavaScript to HTML documents
• New object and applet embedding capabilities, including Java applets, ActiveX controls, and other objects.

Visit the author's Web site and get his complete listings of Web developer resources and valuable development tools, including HTML editors, servers, software packages, and more. To find out how

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Every serious Web master and Web designer should have the most current edition of the HTML Sourcebook on his or her desk. This book manages to touch on nearly every aspect of Web site design and maintenance, all in a single volume. The bulk of this book is devoted to HTML 3.2, including proprietary extensions. Each tag has a full explanation, including an example of how it is used and how it interacts with other tags. The authors make sure to point out cases where Netscape and Microsoft implementations differ, as well as cases where browsers have bugs that affect the rendering of specific tags. A fair amount of attention is given to advanced topics such as cascading style sheets, scripting, and internationalization.

Aspects of the Web that most people take for granted are covered here in great detail. There are whole chapters discussing Multipart Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). These topics may seem arcane, but knowledge of them is essential for Web masters.

The book's technical content is balanced with useful chapters covering concepts of site design and construction, graphics and images, and Web site management. If you're creating a large scale Web site, you'll find advice on planning, designing, testing, and even promoting your site. Although written clearly and concisely, the HTML Sourcebook is not really a book for beginners--there is much more information here than a person creating Web pages for fun will ever need to know.

Review

"Upon finishing the first chapter, I felt confident that I had already learned enough to prepare most of a simple Web page...This is one of the best-written technical books that I have seen in recent years, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to create a Web site."—IEEE Communications

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Product Details

• Paperback: 620 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (March 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471175757
• ISBN-13: 978-0471175759
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,065,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My career started with this book, January 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.2 and HTML Extensions (Sourcebooks) (Paperback)

When I started to learn Web programming, I was overwhelmed by the sources of HTML guide. Fortunately I found this book. Unlike some other HTML scripters, I read this book from cover to cover memorizing almost all tags/attributes as if a teacher would give me a quiz the second day. Thanks to its clear description, I could remember most I memorized. Today I'm a professional Web programmer doing mostly Perl/CGI, Javascript and Apache administration. I owe a lot to Ian Graham. I constantly recommend this book to others who wish to learn HTML.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HTML 3.2 Sourcebook, by Ian Graham, December 1, 1999

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jim m (boston, ma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.2 and HTML Extensions (Sourcebooks) (Paperback)

This is the most superb and comprehensive HTML book out there! All other books promise to teach you HTML "in 24 hours".........wrong answer! Ian Graham shows how much those "other" books leave out. I was going to spend two grand on an HTML course; instead, i bought this book for twenty bucks at a discount store. I saved a load of dough. It's an absolutely definitive volume, the true HTML bible. Graham is wonderfully, obsessively knowledgeable about HTML.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the Definitive Guide, buy this one!, August 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.2 and HTML Extensions (Sourcebooks) (Paperback)

I think the only people criticising this exhaustive reference are those who should be using Frontpage anyway. Considering its target market, it packs in a surprisingly good amount of examples and tutorial too that even an amateur can learn from. If you are serious, this kills the Definitive Guide for content and as for Stanek's Unleashed - just forget it, it's the most over-hyped volume out there! Just take notice of the professionals who read this book - all my friends who design web sites for a living use it...