Html Dynamic

Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals

Format: Paperback
Author: Dan Livingston
ReleaseDate: 24 June, 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Rating:

good lord
this is a retail $30 book and i saw it on half for $. no wonder from all these hilarious reviews that it's being sold for pennies.99. so i came here looking for a review and no wonder at the price. that sucks for the author(s). they should pull a recall.

Probably get more from a Dummies book
Found out I was missing some of the graphics referred to in the book and had to either create or modify existing graphics to make the page come out right(this in just the first two chapters). I have tried to get through this book a couple of times, even tried to follow the code samples and make a sample web page with the graphics loaded from the web site and manually typing in the rest. I am relatively new to HTML and luckily a quick study otherwise I doubt I would have made it through chapter one. I can understand not covering all of the html in the book, but it would have been nice if the download had at least a working example based off of the book. I only have access to IE presently and I had to delve into chapter three to make the some of the items in chapter two work and then I couldn't get the last section of chapter two to work anyway. I have several of the O'Reilly books and I think I will stick with that publisher over Prentice Hall if the rest of the Essential books are are bad as this one.

At least the cover is cool ...
Read the table of contents - looks good. Read the back of the book - looks good. Read the book . . . you'll want your money back. This was the single most poorly put together technical book I have ever read - and I have read a lot of them. The only reason I can say I learned anything from this book is because I worked so hard to make the inoperable examples actually function. Prentice Hall, how about returning me my ($)?.