Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0321430840 Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: August 26, 2006 Number Of Pages: 456 Editorial Review:
Product Description: 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.
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
Customer Reviews
Rating: - Great Book-Easy to Follow
Elizabeth Castro has written yet another good book. This book is easy to follow,clear and is printed in full colour, something you don't often come across in other books. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the ins and outs of css and xhtml.This is a Great book.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
Rating: - Disappointing :-(
The approach of this book is disappointing. It begins with mostly HTML. While this is useful to a point, it seems kind of a waste of time -- since most people's primary goal is to learn XHTML. There was also too much emphasis on discussing deprecated tags. The focus on coding disappointed and disengaged me as a reader. I would prefer more focus on design. I do not recomend this book.
Rating: - Helpful and Easy to follow
This book was easy to follow for a beginner and gave me a good basis to start writing code. It's also a great go-to guide for when I have questions on a specific topic.
Rating: - didn't like the book
I had to buy this book for a class, so had no choice. I do not like the way this book presents information, it is too difficult to find the bits of information you need to code and style html. I have also found contradictions in information presented in this book and the correct coding needed to pass xhtml strict. This book presents information that is poorly organized, and the author is too chatty about his own opinions and thinking in a way that has nothing to do with learning html.
Rating: - html,xhtml & css book
I find the book very interesting and will come in handy when I start to build my web site. I feel the book is very useful and easy to read. Thank you for selling such a book. Thank you.
- Great Book-Easy to Follow
- Disappointing :-(