Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.74 EAN: 9780470238479 ISBN: 047023847X Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: May 27, 2008 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 82657 Studio: For Dummies
Now featuring more than 250 color illustrations throughout, this perennially popular guide is a must for novices who want to work with HTML or XHTML, which continue to be the foundation for any Web site
The new edition features nearly 50 percent new and updated content, including expanded coverage of CSS and scripting, new coverage of syndication and podcasting, and new sample HTML projects, including a personal Web page, an eBay auction page, a company Web site, and an online product catalog
The companion Web site features an eight-page expanded Cheat Sheet with ready-reference information on commands, syntax, colors, CSS elements, and more
Covers planning a Web site, formatting Web pages, using CSS, getting creative with colors and fonts, managing layouts, and integrating scripts
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - All that you need to create webpages!
Great book to create webpages with. It has all that you need and is easy to follow!
Rating: - It could be worse.
This book is so poorly written and poorly arranged that to understand it at all would require mastery of HTML, XHTML, & CSS - of which if you had mastery of, you would not need this book. It lays out the information in trailing, excessively long spans of type that do not so much as address what you have to do as what you could do with it, then introduces multiple colors of text to make you think it is something important, but then it just turns out the author must have a rainbow text fixation. ... Read More
Rating: - Good for those wanting to start and maintain their own website
My wife and I thought the book did a good job teaching and reviewing webpage basics. We have already used what we learned on our family website and would recommend this book to others.
Rating: - The Perfect Book at the Perfect Time
Finally a book that could help me! This was the perfect book at the perfect time.
Now I may or may not be an actual 'dummy', but I can say that this was the first book I've read that really helped me. I searched the book stores (sorry Amazon) looking for a book that could help me re-start a website, and all I could find was a bunch of over technical and complicated volumes that were hard for me to understand. This book was a good introduction book that I found very easy to read without ... Read More
Rating: - HTML, XHTML, & CSS by the Long-winded
I have to write a review since the only other review is written by a friend of the author's (very inappropriate by the way). So, without any further ado...
This book sucks. Yes there is information in it if you can wade through the endless, repetitive, warm and fuzzy prose. These guys bury what you need and want to know in so much talking that you forget why you were reading in the first place. I know nothing about web design but I can't take this book anymore. I have a constant sense ... Read More
- All that you need to create webpages!
- It could be worse.
- Good for those wanting to start and maintain their own website
- HTML, XHTML, & CSS by the Long-winded
