Html 4

Mastering HTML 4

Format: Mass Market Paperback
Author: Deborah S. Ray
ReleaseDate: 05 April, 1999
Publisher: Sybex
Rating:

Well-Used Book For This Professional Web Designer


While the first half of the book teaches you all about proper HTML authoring, the back half of the book is a giant, yet easy to read reference of nearly all HTML tags, most of CSS2 style elements, and the most commonly used Javascript. This book is fiercely awesome.

As a professional webmaster, most HTML books I've read have no re-readability value; you read them once and then they collect dust. This book, however, is a very different animal with it's excellent and extensive reference manual in the back. I've owned this book for almost 5 years, and all the pages are falling out of it and the edges of the pages are well-worn and dirty from the extensive usage of thumbing through pages and from using it as a makeshift pillow during those long nights at the office.

The rumors are true.

One drawback is that this book is swinging towards way past out-of-date -- I would strongly reccommend "Mastering HTML and XHTML" here on Amazon. com as that book is 3 years more up to date and written by the same authors.

excellent reference book for web designers
I liked it so much I decided to buy it. I found this book on the New Horizons Computer Learning Center website. Why? Because it offered more than just HTML. Not only did it provide all the information one needs to write a webpage, but also Cascading Style Sheets and Javascript. As more and more basic code becomes deprecated CSS is becoming the favored mode for writing HTML. Finding A comprehensive list of special codes also sold me on getting this guide.

average book for beginners
It had some tutorials but not enough examples. I bought this book in a hope that it will be similar to the Mastering java script book full of Javascript examples and code and tutorial. The book is basically in 4 sections 1: html tutorial, 2: CSS, 3: Javascript and 4: Html tags. the author quickly lost focus from HTML to CSS and Javascript. I would like the book but if I was a complete beginner, but it was not Mastering HTML. I hope it had more examples. A better book would be HTML source code or cook book I don't remember. This book went back to the book shelf very quickly.