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New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML - Comprehensive (New Perspectives (Paperback Course Technology))

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The book is terrific!!! The tutorials help me to learn the programming syntax, and users can try the case problems to apply what they learned. The case problems downloaded from the book website already contain basic code segment, so users don't have to type everything. Also, excellent references of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript at end of book. As the title implied, the book is primary for learning HTML and DHTML. Reader that would like to learn JavaScript need to get another book, also recommed Beginning JavaScript from Wrox.

This book was used at the local Community College as the text book for an HTML class. I thought the book did a great job of incorporating what the reader learns into real web pages. Other books just say to make text bold do this, to make a marquee do that, but the don't show you how to put that into practice. The reader can do the cases at the end of every chapter and get a solid understanding of how to really use what they've learned. I know it doesn't cover every tag you can use, but gives you a great understanding of the basics.

Like other reviewers, I've used this book in a community college class, and, like the others, find the book does a good job by itself! The example tutorials are easy to follow (although the examples are kind of drab!), additional reference information is included, and being in color definitely helps. I've used this book as a reference when customizing public layouts for my own use. I would say the book is more of a "valiant attempt" at Javascript, which would require a book in itself. Likewise, I was surprised at how often the CSS section didn't help me with some CSS code I was modifying. And I'll add that, of the web technologies out there, you're better off learning Javascript and PHP than DHTML. Not the best HTML book, but definitely a good one.

I used this book for an HTML class taught entirely on the Internet and got an "A"! The exercises are a bit time consuming and tedious, but well worth it for someone like me who has no programming experience. The text is straightforward using pseudo-realistic case study tutorials in a logical and sequential order. This is the comprehensive version of the New Perspectives series. There are also two other versions of this entry level text available in shorter versions.

I intended to use this book as an alternative to taking the course (this was the textbook) at the local community college. My buddy took the course, but the instructor didn't use the book for teaching cascading style sheets or JavaScript; good thing! This book is the bible for HTML 4.0; for that purpose it worked - forget it for chapters 7 onwards (Cascading style sheets and JavaScript). It seems as though the author/publisher thought that adding these chapters would give the book sales appeal - it didn't; it only made me feel very stupid. I bought WROX's Beginning JavaScript - so far it looks very promising.

I like the way Patrick Carey explains things - he makes things very easy. This isn't my favorite book of his & I think you could spend your money elsewhere to be more up-to-date.

I am a college student taking a class using this book to help in creating web pages. We have found errors in the book. In some of the review work and case probems it tells you do certain thing that the book never told you how to do it. I would do more research before I bought this book.