Customer Reviews

HTML & Web Design Tips & Techniques

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Jeesh! This book ranges from your first HTML page to looking at HTTP headers within an Active SErver Page. The chapters present several hundred working Web pages.

I wish I had had this a year ago -- would have saved a lot of time and effort.

If you design Web pages -- you will benefit from this book's tips.

I found this book to be excellent. It is very rare today to find a computer science book that is thorough, logical and well organized, yet brief and to the point. This can be said for all of the chapters in this book. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about web programming.

Outstanding. If you need quick access to important web design information, I highly recommend this book. It covers the most important elements and then moves into other, high-level areas, like CSS. I really like the format, and in the short time that I have been using the book, I have found all of the information that I need. This is a good one for the reference shelf.

I must own every HTML book -- almost all of them say the same things -- (the stuff you can find online at w3c). Finally, someone is offering something new.

I like the tip format -- I don't have time to read 600 pages in a weekend. The format made using solutions I found easy.

The book does a good job with ASP and PHP ... I wished it would have presented Perl too.

The Javascript and CSS stuff is good -- the examples are actually usable in real-world web pages.

An excellent tutorial on PHP! I've been moving several ASP files to a Linux host--found PHP to offer great performance.

I really enjoy using this book. The information is organized according to my needs, and all of the information that I need is right at my finger tips. This is one that I'll keep on my desk for years to come.

The best coverage of PHP that I have found. Excellent discussion of tweaking server, appl, and session variables. Security discussion was very easy to apply.

I bought this book based on the raving reviews I read on Amazon from other users, but when I received it I found some MAJOR issues. This book is a true and utter disappointment for any intermediate or low-intermediate designer.

The Good
- This book is very comprehensive and good for TRUE BEGINNERS as it covers the basics of html, xhtml, php, javascript, and image editing.
- The only mildly useful bits for the hobbyist web designer are the PHP and Javascript chapters... but you can find the same, or better information on the basics of these two technologies posted for free on the net. You don't need to pay 40.00+ bucks for this info.

The Bad
- This book is extremely, extremely outdated. Most of the design tips date back to the time when IE 5.5 and 6 were the cutting edge, and the examples are aimed at IE and Netscape Navigator users! Hence, the tips & techniques are virtually useless now that IE 7 is standard, IE 8 on the horizon, and FFox 3 about to be released.
- This book is filled with statements such as "PNG-8 and PNG-24 formats have only recently received FULL support from the most used-browsers, Netscape Navigator 6 and Internet Explorer 5"(pg 290). THAT's how old this book's tips are.

DO Buy This Book...
- If you have NEVER built a web page before
- If you want the basics to build a personal web page, a hobby web page, a static site with less than 10 pages and no functionality other than a mailto form.
- If you don't mind building your site for primarily for IE users.
- If you don't mind your web page looking like the Geocities Sites of back in 1999.

DO NOT Buy This Book.
- If you know how to style a paragraph using CSS.
- If you have ever used an editor like Dreamweaver, or Adobe Golive, or even FrontPage.
- If you want a site with any sort of interactive functionality like wikis, blogs, discussion boards, etc.
- If you are aware that the world has moved on from Netscape Navigator 6.

In summary, I found this book to be a giant pile of rubbish. In the future, I would strongly recommend NEVER buying a Web Design book that has been published more than 1 or max 2 years before your actual date. Its 2008, DON'T buy anything written prior to 2006 in order to learn basic web design. You'll end up wasting your time, as I did.

This book is outstanding. It covers everything you need to know about web design. It was highly detailed, explaining everything you need to know. And it's well written.

Inside the chapters are small sections that they refer to as Tips, such as Explaining the Uses of a Table as a layout tool. With the tips, it makes it a lot easier to go back and look over something you forgot or don't understand.

Overall, exellent book, and I highly recommend it as a resource

The book is packed with ready to run samples. The coverage on Cascading Style Sheets, DHTML and Javascript is as good as I have found.

Very pleased!