Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0764589172 Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: May 27, 2005 Number Of Pages: 432 Editorial Review:
Product Description: Are you fascinated by the look and design of Web pages? Do you wish that you had the knowledge and skills to create a great looking Web site? Whether you’re an up-and-coming Web designer or just an enthusiastic hobbyist, you are probably using HTML, the standard authoring language for the Internet. HTML 4 For Dummies, now in its 5th edition, will show you the basics of working with this language as well as advanced skills for all-around knowledge.
HTML is used to create Web documents. As a standard issued by the World Wide Web Consortium, it is used by almost everyone to create and edit Web pages. HTML is capable of:
Creating a Web site
Inserting designs to a Web page
Running on both PCs and Macs
The new edition of HTML 4 For Dummies contains nearly 50% more content than its previous editions, and covers a wide range of material, including: Planning a Web site to avoid underperformance
Creating and viewing a Web page
Working with text, tables, lists, and links
Adding style to your page with images, colors, and fonts
Managing layout
Controlling positioning and appearance using CSS
Integrating scripts with HTML
Designing an eBay auction page
Helpful advices and tips, as well as warnings about pitfalls
Complete with a 6-page tear-out colored reference sheet, HTML 4 For Dummies is the most comprehensive HTML guide yet. Written by a computer expert and author of over 120 books, including the previous editions of the bestselling HTML 4 For Dummies, this straightforward, fun guide will aid you through making and editing beautiful Web pages.
Amazon.com: Hard core programmers would say that HTML is for dummies. Even so, for those of us who want to build and maintain our own Web sites, but cringe at the sight of anything resembling a programming language, HTML 4 for Dummies is the hand-holding guide to help us through those processes.
Because many HTML editors do all the site-building work for you, it's strange the authors chose to wait until appendix C in the back of the book to explain why you must know HTML. Still, their reasons for learning HTML are sound, and the advice they dispense is solid.
Beyond going through the ins and outs of HTML tags, the book does a fine job of explaining what design elements work and how to avoid common mistakes. The section on XHTML ensures that budding site builders have all the latest tools at their disposal.
Whether your goal is to build a simple, text-oriented Web site or one loaded with frames, graphics, and animation, HTML 4 for Dummies will put you on the right track. --John Frederick Moore
Customer Reviews
Rating: - Great Book
I'm never disappointed with Dummies books and this one is no exception. Great read, easy to learn.
Rating: - A baby steps book
This is not a book for jumping into WEB development. It claims to be but it really is not.
It's a good intro book for HTML for the absolute beginner. But, I must mention you have to be a reader versus an examples person. There is a great deal of discussion and only so much code examples. However, it did answer a couple questions.
I found this book good for getting to know what is out there. The book offers useful links to sites for getting more information. This ... Read More
Rating: - Just another Dummy!
As a novice or someone thinking about working with HTML, I think this book was over my head. If one had some background in HTML they could probably make full/better use of its content. Pork Chops and Applesauce: A Collection of Recipes and Reflections
Rating: - and I always thought dummies books were for complete beginners...
Caveat emptor to the absolute beginner. This book is not written for the beginning web page creator. It is not written in a tutorial style. It is good as a reference source as you study a true tutorial type book. It discusses tags and their attributes one at a time without showing you how they fit into your web page code. The beginning chapters throw lots of advanced features at you and tell you they will be discussed in chapter 19 etc.
I was completely overwhelmed after 20 min of reading. So what's ... Read More
Rating: - HTML 4 for Dummies
I found this item to be informative, easy to follow and well worth the price that I paid for it. The book arrived when I expected it.
I would recommend this book, as a starting point, to anyone who is interested in learning HTML.
- Great Book
- and I always thought dummies books were for complete beginners...
- HTML 4 for Dummies