The HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.0 (Sourcebooks) [Paperback]

Ian S. Graham (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471142425 | ISBN-13: 978-0471142423 | Publication Date: February 9, 1996 | Edition: 2

"This is the best of the HTML cookbooks I've seen so far." — Byte magazine

"...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

With The HTML Sourcebook, Second Edition, you'll quickly master all the commands, tools, and techniques you need to create state-of-the-art Web page documents. This extensively revised edition of the bestselling guide to online publishing using HTML now provides complete coverage of HTML 3.0, the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Standard, experimental HTML features such as Netscape and Microsoft extensions, Web document design, and more. Of course, you'll still find the clear, step-by-step guidelines, priceless pointers, and abundance of instructive examples—complete with code and screen captures—that made the first edition of this book the standard reference on HTML for the Web page developer community.

The HTML Sourcebook shows you how to:

• Use all the HTML commands—including HTML 3.0 —and the URL syntax
• Create documents that support the latest Web technologies, including Netscape frames and Java^TM applets
• Create and edit HTML documents for all WWW browsers
• Translate documents from a wide range of formats into HTML documents
• Create professional-quality hypertext documents that incorporate graphics, sound, and video effects
• Design your own customized CGI programs and HTML forms
• Access and use all the browsers, editors, translators, CGI programs, and other valuable Web tools available online

The HTML Sourcebook, Second Edition is your complete guide to creating high-quality full-featured Web documents.

Learn more about this book at the Wiley Computer Publishing Web Site http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

One of the best HTML books around, and stronger than most in coverage of CGI scripting, WWW utilities, Java applets, and converting other sorts of documents into HTML.

From Library Journal

Familiar with HTML but itching for more information? The nine chapters and four appendixes that make up this book may be for you. Readers proceed from a quick survey of HTML basics in the first chapter to a collection of six actual examples of complex sites in the last. HTML elements, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), CGI and the HTTP protocol, HTML editors, Web browsers, and HTTP servers are all treated in turn. There are abundant pointers to Internet-based resources to use in conjunction with examples and explanations. Graham maintains a simple philosophy throughout: keep your home page small, concise, and unburdened with enormous files (graphics and others). Many examples scattered in the text, such as those for bad links, are well worth review for both their intellectual and entertainment value. For HTML sophisticates, The HTML Sourcebook will fill in gaps in your expertise and point you in new directions as you design your Internet facades.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 688 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 9, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471142425
• ISBN-13: 978-0471142423
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,343,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great refrence when you can't remember something!, March 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.0 (Sourcebooks) (Paperback)

This is a good book if you already know HTML. Its kind of confusing because right in the middle of the book is a big section with all the tags and their description, but if you overlook that it is a pretty good book.

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent book, sometimes confusing., April 4, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The HTML Sourcebook (Sourcebooks) (Paperback)

Overall, this book was a straightforward decent book. Graham wrote it very well, although I was sometimes confused on the order of things, and I questioned some principles laid forth. This book would be a good book for novices, as it might not help the beginner grasp the whole HTML concept

4.0 out of 5 stars A tool I could not do without...., March 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.0 (Sourcebooks) (Paperback)

This is an invaluable tool and I my classes I use it daily for looking up syntax and finding the answer to questions. Alas, as always with print in this fast moving world, the paper edition is usually outdated by the time it even leaves the printshop!