Creating Web Sites Bible (Bible (Wiley))

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 888 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 3rd Edition June 30, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470223634
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470223635
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Weighs: 2.9 pounds

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Creating Web Sites Bible, Second Edition (Paperback) (...) The 1st edition apparently had some significant issues based on reviews at Amazon, the 2nd edition seems to be much improved. Chapter list: Planning Your Web Pages; Promoting Your Site; Basic HTML Building Blocks; Organizing Your Site; Putting It on the Web; Getting Fancy with Text; Finding Images; Blending Images into Your Pages; Creating and Enhancing Images; Adding Color Throughout Your Site; Harnessing the Power of Tables; Organizing Your Site with Frames; Styling Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets; Positioning Elements with DIVs; Getting Input with Forms; Making Dynamic Pages with JavaScript; Navigating Your Web Site; Adding Dynamic Page Elements with DHTML; Animating with Macromedia Flash; Adding Multimedia and Other Objects; Blogging; Setting Up Your Store; Selling on eBay; Getting Paid; Using Advertising; Covering All the Bases; Maintaining Your Site; Designing with XML; Making Your Site Mobile with WAP/WML; HTML 4.01 Specs; XHTML 1.0, Second Edition specs; XML 1.0, Third Edition Specs; WML 2.0 Specs; JavaScript Reference; Glossary; Index This is one of those books that I personally like, but I don't know if it's right for what I think is the intended audience. I've been doing application development for a long time, and some of that time has been spent doing web development. While I wouldn't grab this book to find an answer to an HTML or JavaScript question, I would use it to understand graphical composition, navigation, and more of the site structure thoughts. There's always new stuff to learn, and it helps to get new ideas from others in that area. And if you've seen my (lack of) graphical ability, you'd understand. Die-hard web designers will also squawk about the reliance on tables and frames for design. I'd tend to agree with them, but I'm also not as dogmatic about the whole issue. If you're a casual computer use who thinks they have a great idea for a web site, and if you think you could build that site on your own, you'd probably gravitate to a book like this. To be sure, everything you absolutely need to know is in here. But I think you could quickly find yourself overwhelmed with everything you need to learn to set the site up. And when you start talking about setting up an online store and shopping carts, you could end up making mistakes that could cost you dearly in security and fraud. So is it a good book? In my opinion, yes. It's well-written and there is a lot of valuable information in it. I just tend to think it serves developers with some prior background knowledge better than it would serve a complete newbie. Comment | | (Report this)