Sam's Teach Yourself Web Publishing With Html 4 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself Series) (Hardcover)

by Laura Lemay (Author), Denise Tyler (Author)

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Part of the Teach Yourself series, this book puts all of the foundational knowledge you need to build Web sites into one large volume, along with a solid explanation of the code and design principles involved. Experienced author Laura Lemay packs a tremendous amount of instruction into this massive title.

The first week of instruction covers the basics of the Web; introduces HTML; and presents simple text formatting, links, and image display. Since this book focuses on product-independent HTML 4 coding rather than instruction on a particular Web-design application, the skills you acquire will be applicable in any tool. In the next seven days of instruction, the author teaches you about style sheets, frames, tables, and the use of multimedia elements. Throughout these discussions, she presents each topic in the context of real-world application and page design.

In the final week, Lemay takes you beyond the basics and into the world of Java, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting, and dynamic HTML (DHTML), including discussions of the differences between Netscape and Microsoft implementations. She finishes the book off with several chapters on effective design, site publishing and promotion, and server administration. A companion CD-ROM includes demo and trial versions of tons of authoring tools and clip media. --Stephen W. Plain

Product Description
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 14 Days, Second Edition is a completely revised version of the expanded, hardcover edition of the industry's best-selling HTML/Web publishing book.

-Thoroughly revised and updated professional hardcover edition of the leading Web publishing title.

-Best-selling author Denise Tyler will completely overhaul the entire book, while retaining the classic Laura Lemay style.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1231 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672314088
• ISBN-13: 978-0672314087
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,828,247 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal for beginners., April 6, 2000

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition, Second Edition (Teach Yourself -- Days) (Hardcover)

You may be an HTML beginner when you pick up Laura Lemay's best-selling book, but at the end of the 21 days you won't be a beginner anymore. This second edition is a major upgrade, 400 pages larger than its predecessor, and updated to cover the latest and greatest in W3C specifications including Cascading Style Sheets and the red-hot dialect called XHTML. Veteran users will welcome the fact that this new release contains more topics: about deprecated tags, working with sound and video files, using Java, and introductions to writing JavaScript scripts and CGI scripting. New users will appreciate the easy-to-follow format and the teaching strategy known as 'micro-uniting'. You'll learn everything in bite-sized chunks, not to much to choke you into unconsciousness, but just the right amount to satisfy your curiosity and appetite. In a mere 21 days -- about the time it takes me to begin my preliminary procrastination -- you'll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking web site. This book is an entire reference library in one volume: everything you need is here. Each "day" of the 21 days contains three chapters. Each chapter covers a specific theme -- such as creating links, animated graphics, tables, frames, multimedia, and so much more. You'll also learn how to spice up your pages with Dynamic HTML; how to put your site online; and how to promote and maintain your site. When I looked at the CD that accompanies the book, I rubbed my eyes to see if it were true. You get a library of photographic images that you can use for free; and trial versions of the biggest names in web-related software. There's not enough space to name everything here, but just to whet your appetite, how about Dreamweaver, GoLive, Homesite, BBEdit Lite, HotDog, Photoshop 5.5, Fireworks, PaintShop Pro -- and the list goes on. XHTML is hotter than Pokemon, and all the latest information about XHTML is carefully explained. The book answered all my questions about this child of HTML and XML: it clearly described how to transform my HTML documents into XHTML. For anyone interested in publishing ebooks, this is essential knowledge, since XHTML has been chosen as the standardizing format for this brave new publishing world. Web site making these days is much more complex than it was when all you had to know were a few dozen tags of HTML 2.0. Lemay's book, with it's relaxed conversational style, is the perfect tutor for every beginning-level to intermediate-level user. If you like to understand the things you read, then -- like me -- you will thoroughly enjoy working with this book.

Michael Pastore, Editor

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic for the beginner and beyond!, December 16, 1999

By	T. wildego "turtle" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was one of my first HTML 4 books and it more than helped get me started on my way to making my first web page. The text is well written and easy to understand with plenty of examples and exercises to get you writing HTML right away. If you want a good reference book and a paced self learning course then this book is a good choice.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, April 5, 2000

By	Walt Dittrich Jr. "Walt D in LV" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition, Second Edition (Teach Yourself -- Days) (Hardcover)

This book was recommended by a close friend who wanted me to learn HTML so I could do some work for his Web Publishing company. Well, I went through it in less than two weeks and was ready to go to work!

The book is written simple-to-understand, but gives enough technical information to keep you interested long after you've learned HTML.

As far as reference goes, you can't get much more complete. I keep this book close at hand to look up the various HTML commands and how to use them.

The book teaches cascading style sheets, tables, forms, javascript, and the new version even includes coverage on XHTML!

The main author, Laura Lemay, writes in a style that is not condescending, and her humor is not forced. It's almost as if your friend were teaching you this stuff.

I would definitely recommend this book, and once you learn HTML, pick up HTML Goodies next.