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New Perspectives on Blended HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Introductory (New Perspectives (Course Technology Paperback))

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I am a 13-year-old middle school student who is studying some basic Web technology over the summer. This is my first time to learn HTML and CSS. After reading several books on this subject, by far this is the best book for beginners. I could follow and understand it easily. I finished the book in less than a month, and all exercises worked properly as shown in the book.

Here are some of the highlights in this book:

- On each chapter, the author clearly explains the covering concepts and he repeats them throughout the book so you won't forget them in later chapters.

- Through the tutorials that go along with each chapter, the hands-on technique makes applying the concept to the real world seem easier to understand and help with remembering what you learned.

I am so happy to read this book and would definitely recommend it to all beginners who are new to HTML and CSS.

I hate how Amazon won't let you give an item zero stars.

This book was required by class, and that is the only reason I bought it. I can't say enough about how wretched this book is. If you're a beginner, this is not a book for you- go find something from the Classroom in a Book series. If you're like me and have been in web design a while and took a web design class in hopes of an easy A, you know this stuff already.

The book is laid out as a series of tutorials, which means you'll never find anything quickly. Each module has you coding HTML and CSS at the same time. Which theoretically could have worked, but they flip-flopped it so frequently that you couldn't always understand what they were trying to do exactly. I really think they should have given a good background in HTML first, then used the second half of the book to cover CSS (which I totally adore) and how it complements HTML.

What really burned me up was that the code in the book is often wrong. I cheat and use DreamWeaver when designing (and tweak the heck out of my code once it's roughed in) so I didn't really notice until my classmates (who were trying to hand code everything in Notepad) kept having validation issues despite having copied everything from the book exactly. I double checked the book against the W3C specifications and sure enough the coding in the book was wrong.

The book is a good resource for those that are looking for a step by step process on how to build a web page. The book takes you through scenarios on using different tags, modification of attributes and beautification of a web page. My recommendation would be to work through each of the scenarios to get the entire concept down though. I'm using this book as a text book for an "Intro to Web Design" class and we jump around to various sections to cover specific concepts. This book does have a good appendix at the end for quick reference.

I have just finished using this book in an online class (offered by the author). I could not disagree more with the "Don't buy this" review from July 28, 2008. I worked the tutorials and would say I have covered 80% of the examples in this book. I found 2 very minor typos. And no errors of susbstance.

This book is a tutorial, rather than a reference. It can be hard to find specific information, but that is not how the book is intended to be used. IMHO, you will have a hard time finding a better HTML tutorial than this book.

This was a really easy book to follow. It was very detailed and included screen shots for each new edit you make. The only thing that could be added is a final screen shot of how the page should look on some of the end-of-chapter material. Most of it includes final screen shots, but not all of it.)

This book is a great text book for learning how to create web sites and learn to code. It is a great resource for the beginning web site designer and a fantastic reference book. I plan on keeping on using it as I build on the basics and need a little help to perform the coding tasks that I need to.

Bought this as a textbook for an HTML class, but it could be used on it's own. Easy to follow instructions.

I have had several pretty good experiences with buying books on amazon. HOWEVER, I bought THIS book at the beginning of the summer semester. The shipping was fast but when I started doing my assignments, however, I noticed that the exercises didn't match. I tried to check the ISBN # but it had been covered up. Long story short, they had sent me the wrong book. Another mix up or delay in getting my book would've cost me more time than I had to spare since this was a summer dynamic session (online) so, the first chance I got, I went to my school's bookstore (100 miles away)and bought another one. Turns out, I had lost too much time and couldn't catch up so I had to drop the class anyway. When my schedule settled down, I was going to return the book for a refund and realized that too much time had lapsed. I tried to sell the book that they had sent me and it was so outdated that I couldn't sell it ANYWHERE -- NOT EVEN ON AMAZON! So, I sent it in, as they had sent it to me, with their sticker still covering the ISBN, with the invoice they had sent me, thinking that surely I could get back some of the money that I had lost, but guess what? They sent it back to me. There's no way to contact customer service, no way to do anything but eat the cost of the book and leave feedback. The moral of the story: if you are in a hurry for your books, as many times students are, get them somewhere else. This cost me not only the price of the book, I had to forfeit 100% of my tuition and the 3 credits, which now means I have to add a class to an already full schedule. Thanks Amazon.

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