New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML Second Edition - Comprehensive [Paperback]

Patrick Carey (Author), Joan Carey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0619019689 | ISBN-13: 978-0619019686 | Publication Date: July 28, 2000 | Edition: 2nd

Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach for learning basic to more advanced features of Web page creation using HTML.

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About the Author

Patrick Carey received his M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Wisconsin, where he worked as a researcher designing and analyzing clinical studies. He co-authored his first textbook on using Excel as a statistical tool. Patrick has authored or co-authored over 20 academic and trade texts for the software industry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 632 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 2nd edition (July 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0619019689
• ISBN-13: 978-0619019686
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,031,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Patrick Carey received his M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Wisconsin, where he worked as a researcher designing and analyzing clinical studies. He co-authored his first textbook on using Excel as a statistical tool. Patrick has authored or co-authored over 20 academic and trade texts for the software industry.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tutorial text, June 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages With Html: Comprehensive (Updated) (Paperback)

I have used this text for a university self-study course. The students have found it very useful. Because so many graphics are made available from the publisher's web site, very impressive web pages can be created from the beginning.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent classroom resource, December 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Creating Web Pages with HTML, Comprehensive (Paperback)

I had the pleasure of using this book in a upper-level web page design class. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. The following are a few comments on the glitch side of things:
1) On 2.24 there is a serious error. I think the authors switched "rock" and "links".
2) RGB triplets in decimal were introduced without sufficient background on p. 3.49.
3) Case 3 in Tutorial 4 was more of a chore than I think was useful. More on this later.
4) I'm left unclear about how the underlining occurs bottom p. 6.48-top p. 6.49. Presumably this has to be done by the HTML coder.
5) The expression "background-image:repeat-x" is wrong.
6) I think it might have been better to have initialized XDay's day and month the same way that its year was initialized, i.e., using "setDate()" and "setMonth()". Or the student could be encouraged to find an alternative to what was proposed in the text.
7) The dense array technique for population an array seems easier to grasp than the one offered on p. 8.36, although I am not objecting to the authors' way of populating that array. Again, the existence of alternatives could be underlined.
8) I didn't see any use made of the javascript roll-over, which seems a pity.

General observations:
1) The authors should have been more generous with their bibliographical material. There are some wonderful online tutorials which could have enriched the textbook.
There are also some wonderful historical materials about the internet to which students could have been refered.
2) The problems were imaginative, but too spoon-fed. I guess it's really up to the instructor to ask the students to put in their own text, etc. For the instructor, this makes checking to what extent a student did his own work well-nigh impossible.

I plan to use this book next time I teach this class, but will have learned how to work around some of its weaknesses. It is, however, far and away the best book I have seen for a classroom situation. Patrick Carey et al. are to be congratulated.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical-Excellent for Self Study, December 20, 2002

By 

Walid Abdi (Riverside, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML Second Edition - Comprehensive (Paperback)

This is a practical self study book. The author" Patrick Carey"
takes you step by step to learn the proper HTML syntax. Each chapter is full of hands on examples. The first 6 chapters are
designated to HTML, and 1 chapter about Cascade style sheet, which covers almost all CSS1 and CSS2. The author teaches you the basics, and then moves you to more advance topics. There are also 2 chapters geared to Java script. The book is an excellent book, I recommend it to any one that has no knowledge of HTML and wants to learn it 1 step at a time, you'll also learn CSS(cascade style sheet) which will take your web site into a higher stage. In addition, the book includes lessons on Javascript in order to make your web site Dynamic. The book gets 5 stars.