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Summary: An excellent teaching tool
Review: An excellent resource for teaching raw code to high school students. I recommend this book in my basic web programming classes. Easy to navigate, and emminently readable explanations-- great with concept as well as code, and written with style...
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Summary: Best Entry Level Book I've Seen, But...
Review: By no means, is it just for beginners. I use it as a reference every day, and I don't let it out of my site! With style & humor, Dick educates the reader with examples and exercises that are meaningful & applicapable to real-world environments. The steps he take the reader though, each chapter building on the previous chapter, together with the companion web-site examples, helped me overcome the frustrations I was experiencing with the lack of control and limits of FrontPage. I was astonished to find that coding pages by hand was easier, more controllable, and more rewarding than using an HTML generator. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn HTML, or just needing a great reference manual. Thanks, Dick!
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Summary: Best Entry Level Book I've Seen, But...
Review: By no means, is it just for beginners. I use it as a reference every day, and I don't let it out of my site! With style & humor, Dick educates the reader with examples and exercises that are meaningful & applicapable to real-world environments. The steps he take the reader though, each chapter building on the previous chapter, together with the companion web-site examples, helped me overcome the frustrations I was experiencing with the lack of control and limits of FrontPage. I was astonished to find that coding pages by hand was easier, more controllable, and more rewarding than using an HTML generator. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn HTML, or just needing a great reference manual. Thanks, Dick!
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Summary: This book is all a beginner needs!
Review: Easy to read content, very well laid out, simple explanations. This book is exactly what I was looking for. The ideal guide for HTML beginners!
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I have used this book in my class room (beginning HTML) for
a couple years now. People consistently say they
find the book readable and easy to understand. Excellent job,
example are simple and fun.
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Summary: 24 Hours is more like 24 Days but that's still good!
Review: I needed to learn the latest standard of HTML 4 and this book's title caught my eye. I like the format of the Sams 24 lessons each taking an hour. But it takes more than an hour to do each lesson if you input the examples yourself and have to debug your syntax errors. The only problem I had was with the XML example that did not work and did not work on the author's website either. I would get a "process could not start" error and I'm using the Microsoft browser IE 6, so it shouldn't be a browser problem. Anyway, I recommend this book for active professionals that want a "working" textbook they can use to have your website up and running in about 6 hours from "scratch" provided you have space reserved on the internet to create a website.
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Summary: Good *BASIC* XHTML book
Review: If you want to learn the basics, this book is a good one. Besides, what do you expect to learn in 24 hours. If you want to do this for a living, I'm not sure this book is for you. If you are new to programming or a total novice to XHTML, the authors keep it simple, humorous and move along at a good pace. If your not sure how much you want to know.. hey, it's [inexpensive] and relatively painless to read. If you have programming experience I'd look for something a little more meaty like "Using XHTML, XML and Java 2", which ties it all together well and is more challenging. But hey, its apples and oranges.
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Summary: Good *BASIC* XHTML book
Review: If you want to learn the basics, this book is a good one. Besides, what do you expect to learn in 24 hours. If you want to do this for a living, I'm not sure this book is for you. If you are new to programming or a total novice to XHTML, the authors keep it simple, humorous and move along at a good pace. If your not sure how much you want to know.. hey, it's [inexpensive] and relatively painless to read. If you have programming experience I'd look for something a little more meaty like "Using XHTML, XML and Java 2", which ties it all together well and is more challenging. But hey, its apples and oranges.
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book was easy to follow and explained things very well. I felt as if I could give it to my 10 year-old and he would be able to follow it (haven't tried this yet thought!)
It took me a lot longer than 24 hours to get through the book - I worked on an outline of my web site as I was going through it.
It also gave a great preview of Javascript and XML.
My only complaint is with the reference at the end which could have been laid out a little better.
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Summary: The best beginning HTML book on the market
Review: This is the best introductory book on HTML and XHTML that is on the market today. Oliver and Morrison cover all the basics in a way that is accessible to all who have a strong desire to learn. In addition to the basics of HTML, there is some coverage of cascading style sheets(CSS), Javascript, dynamic HTML(DHTML), and extensible markup language(XML). This coverage is of course necessarily limited, although it is enough to show you what they all can do.
If you are an HTML beginner, then this is the book you should investigate first.
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