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Summary: Very informative HTML, Website creation book
Review: After deciding to create a Web site, I went down to my local bookstore and purchased this little gem of a book. The thing is so damn easy to use and read that I read the whole book in two days. It is so informative that I knew how to create a site in a day. It gives you in-depth info on fonts, how to import images, colors etc. It also tells you about various HTML editors and how they are used. The only bit that I found disappointing was that it had no section on how to put sounds on your web page. Overall, an excellent boo
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Summary: did you note the publishing date??
Review: Answer: 2002. That should be a "caution" for buying this book.
Outdated tech. references: no mention of Trelix nor even Windows XP. A mention of Windows 2000 if that means allot to you.
Trelix (a free service/perk of most ADSL ISPs or web hosting services) makes web design easy with no need for this book nor HTML knowledge. I bought it as Trelix did not answer a few minor questions & I thought I was an "Idiot" & needed some "hand-holding" by this Author. I'll give this book away to someone who actually wants to learn HTML. I was able to finally add a "counter" to my Verizon hosted site as this book did give me enough to appreciate the nuances of the free counter site upload advice. Another: "dust collector book on the self".
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Summary: Think twice before buying.
Review: As a total HTML illiterate, I bought myself this book. I found the first five chapters of Part 1 rather easy to read and understandable. I could easily grasp the few basics of font, color, and background color. But after chapter 5, Paul lost me. I counldn't get what he was trying to say after that. I learnt graphics, links and tables all through other people. It's not that what he writes is wrong, it's just rather badly worded. I probably read his chapter on frames like a million times and finally got the hang of it after visiting a self help HTML site. And forget about margins. I bought this book like two year before and only recently I grasp the concept of margins, and heck it's not through this book. So unless you're one of those types who has the patience or can understand badly worded explainations, I wouldn't recommend you buy this book or at least be armed with other self help HTML books to cross reference cause you won't get what he's saying in the first reading. In short, his examples are plenty but his explainations are vague and unclear. Not completely helpful to the completely HTML illiterate.
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Summary: Essential
Review: Before you turn away from a title that says "Complete Idiot's Guide"...don't feel embaressed! I willfully purchased this book because I wanted to make my own web page. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page" is the perfect and essential companion for beginners. You have to know basic information on the internet and computers but besides that it's a great resource. The book is very thorough and covers every aspect of advanced HTML (Forms, Frames, Image Maps) to beginner (Links, Paragraph Tags, Basic Documents). Not only does it have HTML lessons but it also gives notes on how to organize your site to make it look good for its audience. I found this book very laid-back and sincere. It's devided into several chapters and also includes humerous comics below each chapter title. So If you're a beginner HTML/web-page Enthusiast, know a little already about how Windows and the Internet works then I would definatly reccomend "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML webpage." My overral grade for this book is an A+
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Summary: good starter...
Review: easy to read and provides a good start creating a web page.
i use only Windows Notepad to write my HTML.you'll come across a few quirks that aren't fully described in the book. overall, it's a good book to use in conjunction with a class -- or if somebody can assist you in person.
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Summary: If You Can Only Buy One, This is THE one to Buy.
Review: Fantasticly useable guide to HTML in all its glory. I used the easy to follow steps and created my company's web site; without resorting to any of the Web Creation software programs (except for the CGI scripting). My collegues marvel that I created the whole site by writing the code, but the author makes it easy to do.
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Summary: The home page of CIG to Creating an HTML Web Page
Review: For more information on this book, and for a few extra tutorials and lessons, visit the home page of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page" at http://www.mcfedries.com/books/cightml
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Summary: Learning HTML 4? This is a MUST BUY!
Review: Have you decided that you want to learn HTML and didn't know where to start? "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML 4 Web Page" by Paul McFedries is the answer! The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 is Creating Your First HTML page and covers chapters 1 through 7. It starts out first explaining what HTML is. In the second chapter, which is titled Laying the Foundation: The Basic Structure of a Web Page, you begin coding. Paul explains all the HTML tags and has plenty of examples. Chapter 3 covers formatting and how to insert special characters into your web page. The book does not include all the special characters. It is 11 pages. The TM mark is one of the characters not included and is why I searched for it when Imation was going to be presenting to us. Chapter 4 gets into creating numbered list, bulleted list, and definition list. Adding links is covered in chapter 5. It covers local links, e-mail links, and links to other net resources including FTP, Gopher, Usenet, and Telnet. Nobody likes plain web pages, so in chapter 6, Paul shows you how to add images to your web page. He also covers the copyright issues. Of course no one can view your HTML creation until it is on a web server, so in chapter 7 Paul covers FTPing your creation to your ISP. Part two is titled A Grab Bag of Web Wonders and includes chapters 8 through 19. Using images for links and creating imagemaps is covered in chapter 8. Chapter 18 list some resources for finding images on the net.The book also covers tables, multimedia, feedback forms, style sheets, and redirecting browsers with client pull. Two additional chapters worth mentioning are Chapter 19 which is about the Personal Web Server and chapter 22, which is about Front Page Express. A geek speak dictionary is included in Appendix A. The book includes a CD Rom , which includes CoolEdit, CuteFTP, Live Image, and Map Edit. There are also programs for your friends that use Macs. It also includes over 500 professional web graphics. The book is now in it's third edition. END
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Summary: A great guide to HTML
Review: I actually have the 4.0 edition of this one, and it covers a ton of HTML codes, applets, tables, frames, surveys, etc! Other pluses of this book include the fact that it is presented in a relaxed manner to get you up to speed. The book also includes a CD-ROM, containing dozens of useful graphics, programs, tools and so much more. I actually downloaded the entire disk to my hard-drive so I would have it when I needed it! I had been playing with my own web-site on and off for years now and I got fed up with having a boring site, so I picked up this book. I was not disappointed! I have learned how to wean myself off of an easy web-editor, to pure HTML. I've also learned how to make an image as a link, how to META tag and a whole bunch of other cool stuff I've been wanting to know how to do. The only real complaint I have is that he tells you how to get a radio-button survey on your page, and then you have to link it to his site to get the results. I would have thought it cool if he had included the section on how to do it all yourself (although he mentioned the fact it would have made the book a bit thicker). If your looking for the basics and maybe a little more, this will get you started! Now all they need is a C.I.G to Java!
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Summary: A beginners evaluation.
Review: I am a retired software engineer (DOS only) and decided to examine Web Page Building as a new career for my old age. This is the second book I bought and it really did the trick. Based on what I learned from McFedries I put a memorial page for my late mother (who was a well known painter) on the net in a very short time. The only criticism I have is that the jokes contain too many American colloquial phrases which I dont understand.
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