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Summary: This is the best HTLM Book! **************
Review: Forget about all the other books teaching html 4.0, This is the only book you will need on html. I own many books on html and I'd trade them all for this book. I'd not take $5000.00 for my copy unless I could replace it. I made the mistake of buying teach yourself Visual Basic in 21 days and it is the worst book on Visual Basic. Just because this book on html is so good, don't buy other sams teach yourself in 21 day books. They are not all good books. But this teach yourself html 4.0 in 21 days should have ten thousand stars.Elijah Gwinn, Webmaster: www.angel7.org
Olympia, Wa.
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Summary: Great book for beginners
Review: Laura Lemay has become one of the premier writers of web development texts, and this book is a good example. Many entry level texts get you started using code that has been depricated by the W3C, knowing full well that future browsers may not support the coding methods they are teaching. Laura does an excellent job of introducing newcomers to the "art" of web development while at the same time, prepares them for impending changes in the coding standards. The basics are well covered with easy to understand examples. Advanced techniques are introduced in such a way as not to confuse the novice. While the book does not come with a CD rom with sample code, most books this size are considerably more expensive. In my opinion, the trade off was well worth it. This book is an absolute must have for the novice who is serious about learning HTML.
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Summary: First rate entry level HTML primer
Review: Laura Lemay has become one of the premier writers of web development texts, and this book is a good example. Many entry level texts get you started using code that has been depricated by the W3C, knowing full well that future browsers may not support the coding methods they are teaching. Laura does an excellent job of introducing newcomers to the "art" of web development while at the same time, prepares them for impending changes in the coding standards. The basics are well covered with easy to understand examples. Advanced techniques are introduced in such a way as not to confuse the novice. While the book does not come with a CD rom with sample code, most books this size are considerably more expensive. In my opinion, the trade off was well worth it. This book is an absolute must have for the novice who is serious about learning HTML.
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Summary: Covers too much with too little detail!
Review: Overall I would not recommend this book. The main reason is that it attempts to cover everything and instead gives a once over lightly treatment of very complex topics like java, CGI and JavaScript. Even the treatment of simpler topics like style sheets and forms is inadequate. I would highly recommend to beginners that they purchase separate books (starting with HTML) that cover these topics in detail and can act as references. This book is not a good reference in that it just scratches the surface. I'm sure this whole "21 day" thing helps sell books but is unrealistic. You probably could teach yourself Web publishing in 21 days but you would have to shell out a lot more money for books!
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Summary: This book saved me.............
Review: Studying graphic design, I thought that a job designing web pages was going to be easy. So I took a job doing just that. However, I had no clue what I was doing. I freaked out, and picked this book up immediatly. In just a few short days all my questions were answered. Now, thanks to this book, I am pursuing more aspects of web design. I highly recommend this book for anyone, to use as a reference, or to get you started (its perfect for the beginner, I was a prime example). Good luck, and have fun..........
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Summary: Great for learning, great for reference!
Review: This book was recommended by a close friend who wanted me to learn HTML so I could do some work for his Web Publishing company. Well, I went through it in less than two weeks and was ready to go to work! The book is written simple-to-understand, but gives enough technical information to keep you interested long after you've learned HTML. As far as reference goes, you can't get much more complete. I keep this book close at hand to look up the various HTML commands and how to use them. The book teaches cascading style sheets, tables, forms, basic javascript, and the new version even includes coverage on XHTML! The main author, Laura Lemay, writes in a style that is not condescending, and her humor is not forced. It's almost as if your friend were teaching you this stuff. I would definitely recommend this book, especially the new 3rd edition! P.S. If this book seems to advanced, I would also recommend HTML Goodies (just see the website as an example)...
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Summary: I was impressed..
Review: This book wins kudos for honesty of title: I really believe you could work through it at a chapter a day, and teach yourself pretty much everything you needed to know about HTML and web site design. I started with some programming background, but absolutely no HTML, and using this book was able to design and implement two different web sites, granted both fairly simple, but not trivial, either, and entirely hand-coded. The book covers the basics of just about every aspect of web design, with pointers to how to obtain more in-depth information on advanced topics (graphics, scripting...), if you need it. Probably most people will skip some chapters (I skipped Java and Java Script, for example), but they're there to go back to, if you need them later. Best of all, the book is well written. The presentation is well organized, and the writing is clear and direct.
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Summary: Their website does not match their book...
Review: This was a good learning tool, however, the website did not match the book...in fact samples for some chapters were completly missing. Then on top of that, when I tried to send them a message about the problem I got a 'front-page' error.
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Summary: Ideal for beginners.
Review: You may be an HTML beginner when you pick up Laura Lemay's best-selling book, but at the end of the 21 days you won't be a beginner anymore. This second edition is a major upgrade, 400 pages larger than its predecessor, and updated to cover the latest and greatest in W3C specifications including Cascading Style Sheets and the red-hot dialect called XHTML. Veteran users will welcome the fact that this new release contains more topics: about deprecated tags, working with sound and video files, using Java, and introductions to writing JavaScript scripts and CGI scripting. New users will appreciate the easy-to-follow format and the teaching strategy known as 'micro-uniting'. You'll learn everything in bite-sized chunks, not to much to choke you into unconsciousness, but just the right amount to satisfy your curiosity and appetite. In a mere 21 days -- about the time it takes me to begin my preliminary procrastination -- you'll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking web site. This book is an entire reference library in one volume: everything you need is here. Each "day" of the 21 days contains three chapters. Each chapter covers a specific theme -- such as creating links, animated graphics, tables, frames, multimedia, and so much more. You'll also learn how to spice up your pages with Dynamic HTML; how to put your site online; and how to promote and maintain your site. When I looked at the CD that accompanies the book, I rubbed my eyes to see if it were true. You get a library of photographic images that you can use for free; and trial versions of the biggest names in web-related software. There's not enough space to name everything here, but just to whet your appetite, how about Dreamweaver, GoLive, Homesite, BBEdit Lite, HotDog, Photoshop 5.5, Fireworks, PaintShop Pro -- and the list goes on. XHTML is hotter than Pokemon, and all the latest information about XHTML is carefully explained. The book answered all my questions about this child of HTML and XML: it clearly described how to transform my HTML documents into XHTML. For anyone interested in publishing ebooks, this is essential knowledge, since XHTML has been chosen as the standardizing format for this brave new publishing world. Web site making these days is much more complex than it was when all you had to know were a few dozen tags of HTML 2.0. Lemay's book, with it's relaxed conversational style, is the perfect tutor for every beginning-level to intermediate-level user. If you like to understand the things you read, then -- like me -- you will thoroughly enjoy working with this book. Michael Pastore, Editor
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