DDC Learning HTML 4.0 (Paperback)

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Product Description

For courses in HTML and Web Design. Designed for students at a variety of skill levels, Learning HTML 4.0 provides students with a total-immersion, hands-on tutorial that walks them step by step, mouse-click by mouse-click, keystroke by keystroke through basic to advanced features of HTML 4.0. The well-illustrated, spiral-bound manual contains easy-to-read, appealingly formatted procedural explanations and step-by-step exercises in a notes/exercises format.

From the Back Cover

Learn by Doing—Not Reading

• Each lesson contains many hands-on exercises designed to teach HTML concepts.
• The book provides definitions, examples, tips, and practice exercises in clear, comprehensible language.
• The author uses simple steps to lead you through the creating of your own Web site.

Introduce Basic HTML Concepts—and Ramp Up Fast to Advanced Techniques

• Students learn the basics of HTML quickly. The bulleted list format, analogies, and illustrations make the technical subject matter easier to understand and retain.
• Perfect for programmers who want to become Web masters.

We'll Teach You

• Basic Concepts & Definitions
• Tag Syntax
• Tag Attributes
• Inline Images & Colors
• Hyperlinks
• HTML Tips & Tricks
• Basic & Advanced Frame Layout
• Tables & Table Formatting
• HTML Forms & Advanced Form Functions
• Image Maps
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Color & Background Properties
• and more

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Product Details

• Paperback: 489 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (January 11, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562439618
• ISBN-13: 978-1562439613
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,151,077 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Make sense of HTML, July 11, 2004

By	Mike Dunn (Winton, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Are you new to Web page design? Do you wonder if you could make your own Web site? If so, this is the book for you. Of course you could just grab an HTML editor and drag and drop objects into an HTML page but without understanding what is going on behind the scenes, what do you do if you have a problem. You can stare at the HTML code but it may as well be Greek!

Learning HTML 4.0 is a compilation of the previous Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced HTML books from the same publisher. It walks you through writing HTML code with a text editor such as Wordpad and viewing the results with a browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape. Learning HTML 4.0 takes you from "What is HTML?" to basic HTML concepts such as document structure and simple HTML tags. It goes on to intermediate elements such as tables and frames and concludes with advanced topics including forms and cascading style sheets.

Included with the book is a companion CD with lesson files and examples of HTML to help you understand what the book is teaching. This is a wonderful book for the individual who wants to learn HTML without going to school. You can work at your own pace and proceed through the lessons as quickly as you want. Once you are done with the lessons, you will have a working knowledge of HTML but you will keep this book within reach and use it often as a reference book.

An interesting sidebar to this is that you will likely have your own Web site up and running long before you finish this book. A lot of the advanced techniques are not needed to publish a nice Web site. Why not use that free space your Internet Service Provider offers for your own Web site? Order this book and you will be online with your own Web site soon!

4.0 out of 5 stars Better but NOT the best!, March 31, 2009

By	Rick "Fourstrings" Lauzon "Rit" (Lehigh Acres,FL.) - See all my reviews

HTML?? Hypertext Markup 4th version.
I will say I have been teaching myself this image, and text processing program for quite a few years as I like to improve on anything that I am involved with, and seeing that HTML is used to get the better sides out of a WEBPAGE or site, then when I make mine soon, I'm pretty fairly advanced at this point, as I have looked through "Dummies for HTML 4.0" and it malingered, and the thoughts were NOT put together as one would like to see : in a progressive style, such as this book from DDC...I am finally getting progression from just reading what I had to watch "susanne" the Teacher's Pet" in the CD series from Mr.Profession...it stank, and still does...It is fully incomplete, and doesn't really explain what you want to happen next, then next, then next!
DDC did this and they spread things out quite a bit, and made the progressed "attributes" bold so you could see what would happen as you followed the instructions...It was very good...better than the W3C Site!
I have learned most computer workings all by myself, with a quick-user booklet, and understood most except MS books..they are the worst.
I am already passed through framing and how to get them up on the screen in color, sized, how to get texting into a site with texting.
I am way ahead of all of the others and two or three more that I picked up in garage sales, ...
I have others, but this teaches very well, and you can go through w.o. having to go back and say:"What was that".. it is easy to follow, so I'll stay with it and I am very happy with my purchase.
Thanks a lot................fourstrings-Rick