Customer Reviews

New Perspectives on HTML, XHTML, and Dynamic HTML, Comprehensive, Third Edition

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When I through the first few chapters, I liked the book already. First it emphasize that the book only covers coding on Notepad or other text editors. I think that is the best way to learn the language. It doesn't need any HTML editors to do the job. It describes the history of internet and its technologies in some of the chapters. It covers the javascript concepts clearly and shows how things are done, step by step. At the end of each chapter, there are some assignments to enhance understanding. There are hints on how these assignments should be done, step by step also. Sometimes even with the hints, they are not easy to perform, especially for DHTML/Javascript, in many cases, I have to go back to the chapter and re-examine the reasons for writing certain functions, when to call the functions and so forth. This book is suitable for beginners with no HTML knowledge and don't want to code with HTML editors. Thankfully, there are some appendices to the tags used for XHTML, and examined the browser compatibilities also. I print out these appendices to allow me to summarise the book and to carry along. As with most books, this book also contain some errors especially with the answers provided, but it is of little problem if you went through the book thoroughly, you can spot them quite easily. There is another book, "New perspectives on Javascript" by the same author which covers mostly Javascript is not so good value, as a lot of Javascript stuff in that book is already covered here. For more seasoned HTML coders, this book is not so suitable, but if you want to learn new ways of coding to comply with new XHTML standards, you should give this book a look.

I needed this book for a class, otherwise I wouldn't even have touched a web design book. (You could learn more from Google, for free.)

However, I did like the level of depth this book went into. It goes beyond the call of duty by even going through javascript- great touch!

The only thing I can brag about is that this book is popular- so the examples and case problems are all online. This makes it easy to get "help" if you didn't have time to do your work.

Without the class, I would still never buy this book. It's too wordy at times, and beats you over the head with what you already know.

I'd say buy it if you need it for a class, otherwise you can skip it.

I bought this as the required text for a college class. It is a tutorial supported with online material. Expensive but thorough. Not indexed well enough to be a reference but an effective teaching text if you start at the beginning and invest the hours to get to the end.

This book is the textbook for an online web design class I'm taking, and I hate it with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.

It started out as an adequate book, explaining the history of the web and of the languages and programs used to produce online content. But I think part of why I understood the first half was that I already had an understanding of basic HTML. Once it moved into unfamiliar territory I found it more and more difficult to understand.

Maybe it's just me, but I can't make sense of half of what they're covering in the DHTML section. All it accomplishes is making me feel mind-numbingly stupid.

I've found online JavaScript tutorials that make sense to me and that I'm able to use, so it's not impossible to present the material in a clear way.

I follow the instructions carefully, check and re-check my work, and still can't get the exercises to function the way they're supposed to. And once the book gets into JavaScript, I can't make heads or tails out of 90% of it. The book might as well be written in French for as much as I can understand of it.

I pray that I'll be able to find online tutorials that can teach me what I need to learn, because I'm never going to learn it from this book.

HTML, XHTML, and Dynamic HTML is a great book for the beginning web developer, the appendices I found especially helpful as they list all HTML/XHTML tags as well as all of the character codes, and more. I would recommend this book.

I was very pleased with this book. I needed it for school and it did what it was suppose to do.

If you are taking a Web Design class this is an excellent book. The tutorials are excellent, and will help you gain basic knowledge of HTML, XHTML programming. Most of the tutorials have you create something you can very easily use on your own.
The problem with this book is the case problems. There is very little support for answers or "help" for the tutorials after tutorial 9. That is why this is not the best book for online, or distance learning, if your using this book in a "second level" class - be prepared to get help.
The Index needs work as well, it's a bit too consolidated. The online companion site is good for data downloads and quick powerpoint presentations of info in the book.

Decent information, a little dates but not too bad. Has some recommendations in the book that aren't really used in practice. All in all its your typical 4000th edition book so that schools can request you to buy the latest edition. 5 stars, because it did its job. if i could give it a 4 1/2 i would just for some little minor gripes about content.

If you have to buy this book for a class, then buy it. If not, stick with Google. I found more useful and relevant information by using Google and looking through the search results than this book provided.

This book is confusing and the explanations just go on and on. You can follow this book for pages and not be sure how you ended up with what you did. There are other, easier to read books on XHTML and HTML avaialable.