Customer Reviews

The HTML Sourcebook (Sourcebooks)

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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.

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

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 Alas, as always with print in this fast moving world, the paper edition is usually outdated by the time it even leaves the printshop!

When I'm not sure I turn to Graham. His text can be relied on. A very good feature of his book is the way he describes most succinctly the 'Can Contain' and 'Can Be Inside' aspects of each tag. With most texts you have to really hunt for this information - if it's given at all. OK, it's not the easiest book for a beginner, who may find Lemay easier, but his text is more reliable and isn't marred by a host of typos. So if you want a reliable tome, this is a good one.

This book does not specifically talk about a particular OS. It generally talks about HTML and cgi-scripting. I read little bit of this book and I thought, man I really wasted money on this. It's very complicated for beginners, and it's also hard to read and learn from it. It's not at all a step-by-step guide, I think it's just a list of tags. VERY good if you wanna just look up what a certain tag does.

As an Internet presence creator, it is my job to make the best html pages possible. The Internet Sourcebook is my Bible.