The HTML Sourcebook (Sourcebooks) [Paperback]

Ian S. Graham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0471118494 | ISBN-13: 978-0471118497 | Edition: 1

Designed for those who want to prepare character-based hypertext and Mosaic documents for online publication. Describes the basic client/server structure of the World Wide Web and the ``cgi-bin'' interface. Contains detailed documentation of all HTML commands and a discussion of the tools needed to link graphics and other non-text items to Mosaic documents. Provides information on the various editors and filters available to compose HTML documents or to convert existing ones into HTML documents. Features tips on setting up servers and includes a long section which demonstrates well-designed Mosaic pages along with their underlying HTML structure.

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471118494
• ISBN-13: 978-0471118497
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,714,695 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!