JavaScript Bible, Fifth Edition

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

Html 4

HTML 4 Bible (with CD-ROM)

Format: Paperback
Author: Bryan Pfaffenberger
ReleaseDate: 15 January, 2000
Publisher: Wiley
Rating:

Good Reference
It's been very helpful as a reference. I bought this book a while ago, I think sometime in 2000. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone with no knowledge of HTML. It doesn't teach you HTML so much as it reiterates things the author assumes you already know. It's nice to have if you know HTML and CSS and need to brush up. I find myself pulling it out pretty frequently when I'm building a page and my brain farts out and I need to jog my memory. But for a beginner, this book will likely cause frustration.

I Keep Grabbing This One Off the Shelf
I've been doing HTML constantly for the past four years and have used a lot of resources, both printed and on the web, and when I got this book I didn't need to use any other resources because this book always had the answers to my multitude of questions. This book truly is my HTML bible. I admit that this book would be a little hard to follow if you're completely new to HTML but if you're familiar with HTML and are hungry to become very good at it this book will satisfy you. If you're totally new to HTML I reccomend the book on HTML published by Visual (it's white with a blueprint of a bridge on the cover). It was my first HTML book and it served me well until I learned everything in it and wanted a book that would teach me more. That's why I got this HTML bible.

I have to say I disagree with an earlier review. This bible book explains syntax very very well and gave me a great understanding of it. It would actually break it down and tell you what was what in syntax. No other HTML book I've read did that. I also found that, unlike some other bible books, it was written in language that was easy to understand and follow.

The appendexs in this book are utterly devine. I use them ALL THE TIME. You can look up any tag in html, any attribute for CSS, how to make special characters, and even more, and get information on how to write them, how to use them, what they effect, and what attributes go with them. I think this is just so awesome.

Now, no book is perfect, but this one comes very close :).

Not So Good
It's short of enough figures that can give readers a vivid description of what these codes can make. Comparing to other books of the Bible family, this book is not satisfactory. And the real-world codes are also insufficient. The book is divided into too many chapters, which makes the whole book disordered. The 150-page Appendix is the only highlight of the book. Readers can easily query the usage of keywords. For sure, the book is not suitable to a beginner.