The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an Html 4 Web Page (3rd ed.Book and Cdrom)(Complete Idiot's Guide to...)

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Summary: Well-written, but out-of-date
Review: This book is very well-organized. The instructions and tips concerning HTML coding are written in simple language and are very easy to follow. Unfortunately, many of the tags which McFedries uses in his examples are deprecated. Some browsers compensate for poor, out-of-date coding but others don't. If you use this book as your reference source for HTML coding while designing a complex website, you may end up with a website that looks beautiful when viewed in Netscape (which compensates for some coding errors) but which is unreadable when viewed in MSIE. If this book weren't so out of date, I would have rated it a 4. There's no question that McFedries knows how to teach coding and knows how to write well. I only hope that he writes an updated version.

Rating:
Summary: Well-written, but out-of-date
Review: This book is very well-organized. The instructions and tips concerning HTML coding are written in simple language and are very easy to follow. Unfortunately, many of the tags which McFedries uses in his examples are deprecated. Some browsers compensate for poor, out-of-date coding but others don't. If you use this book as your reference source for HTML coding while designing a complex website, you may end up with a website that looks beautiful when viewed in Netscape (which compensates for some coding errors) but which is unreadable when viewed in MSIE. If this book weren't so out of date, I would have rated it a 4. There's no question that McFedries knows how to teach coding and knows how to write well. I only hope that he writes an updated version.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book requires absolutely no "computer education" to understand. Paul McFeries has done a thourough and complete job of making this book completely comprehensible. It includes references to McFedries's website with color charts, java scripts, and more! Plus a bonus disc full of software, examples, and all sorts of stuff that he talks about in the book. You cannot go wrong with THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO CREATING A WEBPAGE.