Customer Reviews

HTML in action

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This book was published before HTML 3.0 was in wide use whereas all good HTML books today are written specifically for version 4.0. I should have looked at the publication date and compared it to competing titles. If this were 1996, I would have given the book four stars. I'm still not sure if I liked the book being printed in 'landscape' mode -- it reminds me of second grade.

Despite using terms like "hot tips" and "advanced techniques", this book is really a good introduction to HTML in general, covering Fonts, forms, graphics, frames and CGI programs. I found that it was explaining everything very clearly, using examples and illustrations where needed. The problem of course, is that HTML 4 features are missing, which means that there are a lot of neat tricks people are doing on web sites now for which I have to buy yet another book to understand.

Being an overly critical person, I have to mention some "minor" issues like the index being brain-dead (not having "<B>" or "bold" for example) and the Author using tokens like '<' and '>' without explaining them.

Basically, this book USED TO BE good, but Morris should come out with a second edition that covers HTML 4. This book should really be pulled from circulation.

First off, I'm really rating this 4 1/2 stars (I've never rated anything 5 stars). This was the first book I bought on web design and have purchased 2 or 3 others since which were nowhere near as helpful. If you don't know anything, this is the book for you. If you know your code I'd still take a look through this one. It has some great tricks that you might not have thought of or can't quite get to work on your own. I still pull it out every now and then and I've been doing design for a living for 4 1/2 years. Bruce, keep up the great work! When's your follow up?

Just remember when you buy this book that it's from Microsoft Press, so expect it to lean towards supporting the Microsoft Internet Explorer, with plenty of plugs accordingly - so some of the techiques in this book will not work on the Netscape browser - but these are clearly marked as such, so there shouldn't be any confusion. It comes with a CD ROM which helps you see what you are reading about and comes with a version of the MSIE that you can download. Its nice and easy to read and 'EVEN I' can understand it all

This is...as others have stated... out of date, but still a good book. Those who want to know how to do html from scratch could still find useful information in here.

Good book.

Before Frontpage and before Dreamweaver I knew nothing about HTML. But I wanted to know super bad, and found this book by God graces. This book takes you step by step on how to write HTML the old school way, which can often still be the best way. Buy it, and you'll make yourself and others proud.

This book is really good. It has a lot of valuable information. The only thing about it is that it works 60% on frames and tables. If you already know a little, it's worth it, otherwise, I'd go a little more basic. It's overall really good though!