Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference (Paperback)

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This is a great refresher book for the user who needs to work on Web pages occasionally--but it's also far more than a cheat sheet. Lowe assumes that you already know the basic mechanics of Web-site creation and covers all the bases in abbreviated form, from planning out a site to publicizing it. He offers good advice, helpful tips, and technical details in a form well suited to browsing and quick reference. In addition to offering highlights on actual site building, Lowe also helps you select software for your development tool kit, work with push technology, and get your page onto the Web.

The site-creation methods discussed include working with raw HTML as well as using software such as Microsoft FrontPage 98, Netscape Composer, and Microsoft Office. The book design allows for easy reference, as it is compact, takes up little desk space, and, with its comb-bound spine, opens flat to whatever page you select. --Elizabeth Lewis

Product Description

What's the shortest distance between two points? A copy of one of our popular, no-frills Quick Reference guides, of course! Here's everything you need to know to create your own Web pages from scratch. Creating Web Pages For Dummies Quick Reference gives you fast, friendly, and easy-to-understand information on the following topics: Discovering the basics of page design Working with graphics, sound, and video Scripting (from basic to advanced) with JavaScript and VBScript Using push technology for channel broadcasting Creating Web pages with Microsoft FrontPage 98, Netscape Composer, or Microsoft Office 97 Publishing your Web sites to the server of your own choice Creating Web Pages For Dummies Quick Reference delivers the goods on Web publishing in short, sweet, and straight-to-the-point steps. Designed with real-world usage in mind, this slender one-volume reference guide is designed to lay flat on your desk or workspace for quick reference, just like it's user-friendly title says!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764503634
• ISBN-13: 978-0764503634
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,430,021 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful if you have some hands-on experience, November 3, 1999

By	Geoffrey Brown (Taconic, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference: A Quick Reference for the Rest of Us! (Spiral-bound)

This book is worth a lot more than its cover price. I need to be able to get up the curve VERY quickly about a lot of different software products. The book is valuable if for no other reason than it covers so many, albeit briefly: graphics programs, HTML editors, Java stuff, various office suites, browsers, etc. It won't tell you everything you need to know about MS FrontPage 2000, for example, but it will tell you enough to keep you out of serious trouble until you can learn the rest. It gave me enough information about FrontPage 2000 to get a 10 page site in FP2000 up and on the internet in less than 2 1/2 hours -- although I had previously build sites from scratch. The glossary was also good (the words don't change, but the meanings do). And it gave me a few good things to bicker about with my current ISP and in trying to find suitable ISPs for clients. It's a good and useful book. It doesn't get particularly technical, but there are other books to do that with when you find that you need to. On the other hand I can see that if you were really a newbie about the internet or building web sites when you pick it up, you might be a little bit disappointed.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to scratch, October 16, 1999

By	Ruairi Dunne ([e-mail]) (Fife Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Web Pages for Dummies Quick Reference: A Quick Reference for the Rest of Us! (Spiral-bound)

I think that this book is not all its cracked up to be. All it tells you is about front page Express, 98. In front page it gives you all the intructions you need so why go buy a book that I persumed would give me information on HTML progaramming . Do not buy this book if you have any sense.