How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML (Paperback)

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Product Description

Get straight to the essentials of Web site development with of this step-by-step goldmine. Learn to build your Web site using HTML and XHTML basics. Then, this easy-to-follow guide takes you through adding images, using tables for data and layout, creating framesets, enhancing visuals with style sheets, embedding objects, and even adding interactivity with forms.

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This step-by-step resource takes the fear and mystery out of using markup languages HTML and XHTML to build Web sites--it will help you through the process with friendly and familiar terms and techniques. You'll cover all the basics, learn to add links, images, and data, and move on to advanced techniques such as animation, image maps, and interactivity. Discover the XHTML 1.0 recommendations and the direction in which Web design is headed with XHMTL 1.1 (XHTML Modularization) and the XHTML 2.0 working draft. Whatever your goals are, you'll find what you need to accomplish them in How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML.

• Understand basic HTML syntax
• Control font size and type
• Keep your site up to date with ease
• Use frames to display multiple pages
• Polish the appearance of elements with Cascading Style Sheets
• Incorporate audio and video files
• Mix your own colors and be sure you're using browser-safe colors
• Add interactive features with JavaScript
• Learn to work with GIF and JPEG graphic files

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (November 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072231297
• ISBN-13: 978-0072231298
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #764,030 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars for beginners?, October 10, 2004

By	diode "don" (louisiana) - See all my reviews

i think this book is not detailed enough, as compared with its titile"how to do everything with html&xhtml".After i finished reading this book, i started to build my web site. But, the problem is i don't know what attributes and values i can use within style sheets. and the effort to understand all that stuff is really frustrating.And i am confused about whether the attribute is from html or xhtml, can i use them? the book don't provide a list of all the stuff with its usage and possible values, attributes as a reference, and the pdf file i downloaded from the author's web site is useless because most of them is listed in the book and they are just not detailed enough, it is just a book for beginners and it should be marked as level 1.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!!!, January 8, 2005

By	Robert Keller - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For a first book on this topic I found the depth of coverage and pace to be perfect. Very easy painless coverage of topic.
Not too slow, and not too fast where you feel like you're lost.
Nothing is taken for granted(Author assumes you know nothing), yet you are not treated like a "dummy" or "complete idiot".

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is how to begin!, May 9, 2004

By	Dillon Burroughs (Sherman, TX USA) - See all my reviews

"How to Do Everything in HTML" does exactly what it says. It simply takes a beginner (like me) and shows how to use basic programming to do what you want rather than what you can figure out.

This is THE book I would recommend to someone who wants to know what HTML is and does but lacks prior computer programming experience. Even those familiar with other computer languages such as C++ or java will find the user-friendly approach by Pence a joy over most technical books.

If a beginner's book is what you want, here it is!