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Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!
- Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #834 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-26
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 456 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com :
It's important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbing it "XHTML 1.0") and the allowable code will eventually be stricter. Tags that are being phased out are labeled "deprecated"--current browsers can still handle them, but if you want your site to keep up with future browsers, not to mention conform to accessibility requirements, you will want to get on top of XHTML.
Of course, Elizabeth Castro manages to write books that not only speak to those who are already fluent in HTML, but are good for newbies too. She makes it a breeze to create sites that are visually stylish and technically sophisticated without the expense of buying an editor.
Among the topics covered in her new book, HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: using the (relatively newer) structural tags (like doctype and div); correctly using older tags (like p and img) that have been modified in XHTML; writing XHTML so that formatting is done by the style sheets; writing those style sheets (cascading style sheets, a.k.a. "CSS"); creating a variety of layouts; and dealing with tables, frames, forms, multimedia, a bit of JavaScript (including mouseovers), WML (for mobile device displays), debugging, publishing, and publicizing your site.
As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, this one features clear and concise instructions side by side with well-captioned illustrations and screen shots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a great reference.
Also great for reference are the outstanding appendices. The first is an extensive list of tags and attributes, indicating which are deprecated and/or proprietary and on which page they are discussed. A similar appendix shows CSS properties and values; given the future of Web coding, this chart alone is worth the price of the book. Other handy charts cover intrinsic events, symbols and character Unicodes, and an expanded color chart that goes way beyond the virtually archaic Web-safe palette. All of which makes this a definite must-have for every Web designer's bookshelf. --Angelynn Grant
From Library Journal Peachpit's "Visual Quickstart" guides are real meat-and-potatoes works for beginners. Nothing fancy to be found here, just one annotated screen shot after another. An advanced user will finish one of these books during a two-hour airplane ride; beginners will need a day. But everyone will welcome the purely practical approach.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Card catalog description "Takes an easy, visual approach to teaching HTML, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do; works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work; no long-winded passages - concise, straightforward commentary explains what you need to know; and companion Web site gives you all the book's example files, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more."--BOOK JACKET.
Customer Reviews
Good guide with lots of color photo examples
I'm just starting to learn HTML and find this book to be helpful. This book was recommended by my professor as well.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS Guide
This book arrived quick and in new condition. It has been a real help for my class at school this semester (and WAY less expensive than if I had bought it at the school bookstore)...Thanks!
HTML Review
Very good book. Offers very detailed examples which you can write and will work as described. Its divided in sections so you know what to look for. Very great examples which is good for beginners which I am and it seems relatively easy. Would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learnign HTML, XHTML and CSS.
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