Customer Reviews

HTML Web Publishing 6-in-1

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
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This book is a great for anyone wishing to learn HTML. It's clear and very informative. Beginner and intermediate HTML users will find it a great buy.

It's only short-coming is the absence of a list of tags and their uses. "HTML 4" by Elizabeth Castro has this, and it is very useful for a quick reference. However the Castro Text is less suited for a beginner.

The 6 in 1 guide covers HTML, CSS, and DHTML as well or better than many texts that cover only one of these subjects. The book really explains why things are done, instead of showing you how to do something but not telling you why you'd want to do it.

You'll be very happy with the book if you're just starting out.

This is a terrific book for beginners; it has clear, easy-to-understand examples and gives you info other books assume you already know; like how to actually PUBLISH your site; but it has a couple of shortcomings that prevent me from giving it five stars. First, the section on VRML is a complete waste. Secondly, the scripting sections leave a bit to be desired, but they at least give you an introduction to basic scripting and DHTML. This is a good reference book for amateur web designers and a fabulous starter course for HTML newbies; however, more advanced web developers won't benefit at all from it; and even newbies will quickly outgrow it. That's a testament to how well it conveys the information!

For the intermediate level HTML programmer, this book covers a wide variety of topics such as style sheets, dynamic HTML, scripting, table and frame design, etc. I refer to it constantly.

Todd Stauffer did a great job by expressing the basics of html in the beginning of the book. Since the book went from the eaisiest parts of html to the harder and more complex parts you did not have to read the entire book to find exactly what you were looking for. I have read several html books, including html for dummies, and I found that this was much easier to read then everything that I have read. This was simply a great html book.

Excellent reference book for the beginner in web publishing. HTML is the only way to go and this book will give you a firm understanding of "how to do it". There are a lot of books on this subject, but this is the one of choice.

I bought this book recomended by some site. I quickly found out although it does go into some detail of Netscape browser it highly discourages people to use them and goes further by asking them to skip the netscape sections. This book encourages people to support Microsoft and encourages people to use code that is not compatible with other browsers in a since.

A lot of helpfull info in it but because of its bias strategy I give it a 2. Book is somewhat old now but decided to learn the older stuff so what I learned to code would be compatible with almost any browsers. Im gonna have to say I would discourage making this book a choice for your studies.

One month ago I knew nothing of HTML and now have a fully functioning site with forms, tables, frames, graphics etc. However, this book was a fun easy read up until the scripting and Dynamic HTML sections where it seems to fall short. The examples of the style sheets, and scripting for the MOST part generated errors or didn't work (IE4, Netscape 3 and 4) if copied exactly which is frustrating and there are dozens of typos in the examples throughout the book which would not create the desired result of course. I don't know how I could read and type for 150 pages or so of, "Error in line 15....". Fortunately the nature of HTML is easy enough so that most could probably catch some obvious errors (like leaving closing tags off). Unfortunately, I'm shopping now for a good scripting book. The organization was a little questionable at times: you will create Virtual Reality before you change the background colors of your page. Overall, I recommend it as a great way to start HTML.