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Master VISUALLY HTML 4 and XHTML 1

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I loved this book. I already had a good general feeling for HTML, but this book really makes it easy for you to learn it. Lots of graphics, highlights, and great sectioning of this book make it a GREAT buy. When there was something I wanted to look into, it was easy to find and the section went into enough detail for me to know it without reading about the history of the funtion like some other books do.

The best thing about this book is that it's CONCISE! Most books go into unnessasary detail or drone on and on just to make the book bigger and thus try to make itself seem like a better value, but this book doesn't. It is well written and gets straight to the point! ... uh. unlike this great review! =)

You know the old saw, "never judge a book by its cover"? Not only teaches the novice the intracacies of HTML, but is also a superb reference for the accomplished coder. I call it the "Webster's Dictionary" of HTML books because the end effect(s) (think "word(s)" using the dictionary analogy) is side-by-side with the HTML code (the "definition"). I have many HTML books, but I find myself coming back to this one as my steady and reliable desk reference on HTML.

as i used this item i was amazed at the ease of use and the good pictoral examples given on each page with red lines showing where every thing is and how it works there is no better book to learn html

I would like to review this book well... I would like to say how wonderful this book is.

I can't.

This book is a perfect example of code that half the time only works well in Internet Explorer on Windows. Standards? No. JavaScript is pretty messed up too.

In short, if you use this book for reference in building your website, make sure it isn't a professional site, or you might just lose customers.

[the title is referring to when a dog dies, it may have a disease, and if you touch the dog, you may catch it. - this book is some what like that, it teaches you bad habits that may take a long time to fix.]

At the time of this writing, this book is very outdated. What does it take to update a Book like this? Not very much. Animabets.com does not exist anymore, and they constantly cite examples using this website, not to mention any software they recommend is also way outdated, and their examples don't work with any current software. But I'm not saying you couldn't learn HTML using this book. It just wastes a lot of your valuable time.