Html Dynamic

Dynamic HTML for Dummies

Format: Paperback
Author: Michael I. Hyman
ReleaseDate: 10 December, 1997
Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc
Rating:

Too much humor and too little substance....
) And one aspect I've always liked about these books is the humor the author's use in the material to make them more entertaining. I normally look to the For Dummies books as intro's to a subject (book you can read to get the basics of a new topic, and then move on to a more serious book if you need to.

However, this author uses way too much humor or effort trying to be "cute". Even the Chapter titles are attempts to be humorous and or witty. To the point you can't look anything up in the table of contents because the titles don't tell you what's in the chapters!!!

And although "For Dummies" books are usually not great reference books, at least they have most of the basics and could be used as a light reference. This book is totally worthless as a reference.

Other than as an example of what the author thinks are "cool" effects, it was a huge disappointment for me.

The fun and easy way to start
However if you do not have a basic idea of how Dynamic HTML works you will not be able to answer the questions on what to do. And now you may think that programs that do it all for you would be easier to start with. This book goes from the fundamentals to building a practical website. Unfortunately it does not show how to mail "form" information back to you from the website. There are a lot of practical examples but this book is somewhat dated. The book is also geared to Apache server and UNIX concepts therefore it should work on 90 percent of the web sites that you encounter. The code is also more transportable because of this.

You need to check with your potential I. S. P. to see if they're using Internet information services (ISS) if so this book may be of little use because it is proprietary and uses a weird syntax.

Not Bad.
It also doesn't teach you, it shows you cool effect you can do. It's a good book, but you have to know a little about HTML to start with. If you want to learn HTML, then you should get HTML for Dummies, then read this. I have to tell you the software wasn't half bad.