Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 427 pages
- Published by: Apress June 25, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1590597478
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590597477
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.9 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML—the language that the majority of web site content is written in.
Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Youll also learn how to add dynamic behavior to your data using the JavaScript™ language.
This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards compliant and demonstrate best practices—so you will not waste time on outdated, terrible techniques. Your web pages will work properly in most web browsers and be accessible to web users with disabilities, easily locatable with popular search engines, and compact in file size.
Even if you already know HTML and CSS basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables at the back, so you can look up all of the troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily.
Pick up a copy of this book because it:
- Teaches standards-compliant HTMLnot outdated techniques
- Includes reference sections for you to easily look up syntax
- Doesnt require previous programming experience for comprehension
Bruce Lawson and Gez Lemon acted as technical reviewers of
Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML. Bruce and Gez are active members of the Web Standards Project's Accessibility Task Force, and have helped ensure that the book follows current guidelines and best practice.
About The Author
David Schultz is an IT professional with more than 14 years of successful experience implementing systems, including web-based applications. He has an in-depth knowledge and experience with online web-based decision support systems and desktop applications. He's previously authored several books and articles, and has tech reviewed dozens of books.
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Reader ReviewsDespite the "Beginning HTML" in the title, this small horror is a densely packed text of incomprehensible jargon. This book is only useful for balancing wobbly table legs and for teaching writers how NOT to write a reference work / tutorial. I bought it based on the title, not the contents. (It was shrink-wrapped at a brick-and-mortar bookstore) Had I seen a sample of the text, I would have reshelved it hurriedly or offered a dime to buy it for firewood. As a reference work for web designers, or a tutorial for beginners, it ranks below any other book I've seen on the subject. APPENDICES: 1) The promised CSS is scattered throughout the book, with no CSS reference guide in the appendices. 2) The appendices for HTML and XHTML describe each tag's parameters in such a way as to leave one wondering how to use them, and what each tag and parameter does. EXAMPLES: The authors clearly did not proofread the version that reached the printers, or the editors made unexpected, inexcusable last-minute cutbacks. This is most obvious in photo captions that ask us (unbelievably) to find the differently colored text in identical B&W screenshots (p. 143), and in examples of JPEG artifacts/compression (p. 108) and pixelating (p. 106) that are unnoticeable because the example photographs have been shrunken far too much or carelessly created. INDEX: Carelessly assembled, neglecting common terms like "mouseover". LANGUAGE: Professorial pointification and obfuscation rather than real advice to beginners or helpful reference for experts. Reads like a fillibuster performed by a student defending his masters' dissertation. For example, what beginner could make use of this entry in the appendices? (p. 353) "The param element allows you to set run-time values for objects that have been inserted into a document. Required attributes: type: specifies the MIME type of the resource specified in the value attribute when the valuetype attribute is set to ref; value: specifies the actual value associated with the parameter" ...and so on. Sentences are needlessly wordy, overly technical, and filled with passive verbs. In short, the writing bores and frustrates more than an afternoon spent with an enthusiastic life insurance salesman. For example, from page 352: <option
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