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Learn HTML 4 In a Weekend, 4th Edition (In a Weekend (Premier Press))

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Most HTML instructional books I've seen are closer to reference manuals than learning tools. If you want to learn how to build web pages from scratch using native HTML this is the book you should be looking at. Years ago I used the 1998 "Revised Edition" of this book which came with a CD to learn most of what I know about HTML. What I liked the most about it was that it separated each major study area into standalone elements. When I finished a particular tutorial session I could actually start using what I learned in real life web pages. In addition, all the coding examples presented in the book were also on the CD I got with the book. On thing I especially liked was that I found nothing strange in any of Callihan's coding examples. Unlike a lot of authors of technical books he doesn't make any assumptions about his readers' prior technical knowledge. His coding example only used HTML commands that he had already thoroughly explained in his instructional text.

The "Revised Edition" version of the book I read began with teaching you the basic HTML commands, then it moved on to the intermediate commands, then advanced commands and finally it dealt with a few of the more esoteric subjects. The book would almost certainly bore most web savvy readers; however, if you're a novice and want to learn HTML from scratch I highly recommend buying this one.

One last thing, it's just a cute title. Don't expect to be whipping out web pages after just one weekend. It will take you at least two or three. I never did get around to reading "The Frames Tutorial" section of my book and since I don't use frames I probably never will.

Learn HTML 4 In a Weekend, 4th Edition
I bought this book with all intentions of learning basic HTML. I've been using a computer for a long time, but I am not a very good techie. So, this book really promised to help me learn HTML, SIMPLY. It was not very good; it was overly complicated, when all I wanted to know how to do, was learn the language and post images and pictures whenever I posted online. However, it was way too confusing. It was way too complicated for a beginner. I did not think it was a good job for somebody who was beginning at all. Not with HTML. In fact, I was so confused, I went to the author's website, because he promised in the book that he would help people. Go to his website, e-mail him, ask for help. I did that; I never got any help. I e-mailed him several times, with specific questions, and he never answered any of my e-mails. So, if you are extremely good a good techie, and very clever, you might be able to do this. However, I do not think this is good for beginning HTML. It is very complicated, and it cannot be done in a weekend. Furthermore, the author says in the book that he promises to help you on his website, and that is not true. He ignores all e-mails for help. I suggest, get a good techie friend to help you learn HTML, or maybe a computer repair man, and get him to recommend a very simple way to learn it. Often, there are instructions online, for free, on how to learn HTML. Nobody tells you that! There's lots of instruction online, and HTML, simply, is one of them. I would do that, before I decided to buy this book. Yes, talk to a techie about HTML, ask him for some help, and also ask him what free website to go to, to help you learn HTML. I would not buy this book again. Thank you. Of course, this is just my opinion.

As a dislexic computer user I will not be able to use this publication.
I need instructions in colour and well spaced, laid out in an imaginative manor. What can I do, could I return this book as I found it impossible to understand how to begin to use it? It is not user friendly for those with this learning difficulty.