HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

HTML for Dummies

Html 4

HTML 4 for Dummies Quick Reference

Format: Plastic Comb
Author: Deborah S. Ray
ReleaseDate: 01 August, 2000
Publisher: For Dummies
Rating:

Great for beginners!
And it really helped me learn fast!

Each of the book's lessons is hands-on, which makes it so much easier to pick up. I love this book! 7 years ago, when I was in high school, I knew nothing about HTML, so I picked up this book. It teaches you HTML by having you type the codes into the Notepad program, and saving the file as an . html instead of a . txt file. Then, when you open it up, it appears in webpage format, and you can quickly edit and play around with the codes in Notepad to see what kind of different results you get. Actually, even to this day, I still use a Notepad program instead of one of those fancy page-creator programs. I like keepin' it DIY, Old School, baby!

Some of the things the book covers:
- how to use different fonts
- how to put in images
- how to make an image map (so when you click on different parts of the image, you're sent to different links)
- how to create basic tables
- how to create numbered and bulleted lists
- how to make frames

Even though the book won't teach you some of the fancier stuff you see on webpages, like how to use non-bordered tables for layout design, or how to make text change when you roll your mouse cursor over it, it will teach you how to be able to learn those things. Since the book taught me how to view the source code of webpages and how to understand code in the first place, whenever I went to someone's website and saw something cool I liked, I just viewed their source code to see how they were able to do those things. This is all perfectly fine; just DON'T STEAL SOMEONE ELSE'S LAYOUT. Not cool, people. Just see how others do things, and use those techniques to make something of your own design.

Once you learn the basics of HTML, it's easy to pick up that fancy stuff. There's plenty of tutorial sites on the web and thick HTML reference books at the library that'll give you the codes for that. And this book definitely gives you the foundation for learning those things. .

This a very good begging to learn HTML
. I had new a little html before I got this book but after I got this book my web pages went from looking like something a high school freshman could do after a weekend to something that looks fairly professional I really enjoyed this book and will be getting java for dummies also if it half as good as this one.

Great Little Friend!
Not only did I learn how to build a webpage from scratch, I continue to learn new tricks from it every time I dip inside. This is the first HTML book I bought and it's become my favorite. This is great if you want to learn how to code your pages and not rely on templates. There's also a quick and handy color code guide in the back.