HTML 4 For Dummies, 5th Edition

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
• Published by: For Dummies
• Edition: 5th Edition May 27, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764589172
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764589171
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Review
Hard core programmers would say that HTML is for dummies. Even so, for those of us who want to build and maintain our own Web sites, but cringe at the sight of anything resembling a programming language, HTML 4 for Dummies is the hand-holding guide to help us through those processes.

Because many HTML editors do all the site-building work for you, it's strange the authors picked to wait until appendix C in the back of the book to explain why you must know HTML. Still, their reasons for learning HTML are sound, and the advice they dispense is solid.

Beyond going through the ins and outs of HTML tags, the book does a fine job of explaining what design elements work and how to avoid common mistakes. The section on XHTML ensures that budding site builders have all the latest tools at their disposal.

Whether your goal is to build a simple, text-oriented Web site or one loaded with frames, graphics, and animation, HTML 4 for Dummies will put you on the right track. --John Frederick Moore --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Review
"read the easy to use starter guide HTML 4 For Dummies, published by John Wiley & Sons." (Smallbusiness.co.uk)

Reader Reviews
This review is from: HTML 4 for Dummies (with CD-ROM) (Paperback) This book could have been about 200 pages shorter if they left out the redundant info on content and style of content. I would call this book "Keep it simple silly" as they must mention the KISS theory about 400 times. While I did get a better understanding of HTML after reading it. I was surely not prepared to make much of a web page when I was done digesting these 400 pages. I suggest picking it up at the library as I did and then getting a HTML reference book. Heck you can just go to WebMonkey or some other tutorial web site and learn just as much but quicker. It served it's usefullness but I would never buy it or reference back to it after reading it.