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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (Head First)

Format: Paperback
Author: Elisabeth Freeman
ReleaseDate: 01 December, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Head First HTML rocks!
I had such an excellent experience with the Head First Java, I decicided to buy the HTML book to brush up on my knowledge of HTML. I absolutely love the teaching style of O'Reilly's Head First Series.
I thought I was relatively competent in my knowledge of HTML, but once you read this book you suddenly realise there are much easier and elegant solutions to designing pages for the web.

This book takes standards seriously, and teaches you to build highly accessible and robust pages in a VERY easy to learn manor. The book is fun to read, and it makes the process active by making you think around problems, puzzles and activities.
They have also done extremely well in anticipating what I may be thinking at a particular point in the text with the "There are No Dumb Questions. . " sections. They seemed to answer all my queries and pointed me in the right direction at the right time.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to dabble in web page design at some point in time (and who doesn't?).

Head First HTML
In very clear, easy to understand English it spells out the concepts and the lessons really sink in by performing the practices. This book is great. The exercises also help the solidify lessons learned. If you have no experience or very limited experience with HTML and CSS this is a great, fun book with which to gain a nice foundation on which to build more sophisticated knowledge.

Really getting started with web design

It's for people who are new to web design even if they know a little HTML. This is one of those rare books whose author(s) really WANT you to learn and understand a subject and be able to apply it and have no other motive for writing the book other than that, AND take every possible precaution to make sure you really get it. It gets you from floundering beginner up to someone who is well grounded in all the basics of web design, can put together web pages and websites using XHTML and CSS, really knowing what you're doing up to intermediate level. You need this book BEFORE you try to understand and use Dreamweaver of GoLive or whatever and BEFORE you read books on designing websites. In fact, this is the first book you should buy if you want to have anything to do with web design.
I can't recommend this book strongly enough. It is by far the best I have found for getting started in web design and construction. It IS where you start to learn this subject. Thank goodness this book was written and thank goodness I found it. .