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HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)

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Product Description
Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
Page for page, the best content and value around.
Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

It's important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbing it "XHTML 1.0") and the allowable code will eventually be stricter. Tags that are being phased out are labeled "deprecated"--current browsers can still handle them, but if you want your site to keep up with future browsers, not to mention conform to accessibility requirements, you will want to get on top of XHTML.

Of course, Elizabeth Castro manages to write books that not only speak to those who are already fluent in HTML, but are good for newbies too. She makes it a breeze to create sites that are visually stylish and technically sophisticated without the expense of buying an editor.

Among the topics covered in her new book, HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: using the (relatively newer) structural tags (like doctype and div); correctly using older tags (like p and img) that have been modified in XHTML; writing XHTML so that formatting is done by the style sheets; writing those style sheets (cascading style sheets, a.k.a. "CSS"); creating a variety of layouts; and dealing with tables, frames, forms, multimedia, a bit of JavaScript (including mouseovers), WML (for mobile device displays), debugging, publishing, and publicizing your site.

As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, this one features clear and concise instructions side by side with well-captioned illustrations and screen shots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a great reference.

Also great for reference are the outstanding appendices. The first is an extensive list of tags and attributes, indicating which are deprecated and/or proprietary and on which page they are discussed. A similar appendix shows CSS properties and values; given the future of Web coding, this chart alone is worth the price of the book. Other handy charts cover intrinsic events, symbols and character Unicodes, and an expanded color chart that goes way beyond the virtually archaic Web-safe palette. All of which makes this a definite must-have for every Web designer's bookshelf. --Angelynn Grant

Customer Reviews:
Highly Recommended

Overall, this book was a very valuable resource. Let me temper this by saying that I am an advanced computer user, with experience programming in many languages. That said, this book was a great refresher for me, that even taught me some things. I would definitely recomend this book to a novice user.

This book is an extremly useful guide to XHTML (or HTML) and CSS. It especially promotes the merits of CSS (cascading style sheets) in web developement, and the ease they provide in facilitating consistent design throughout a website. For an advanced programmer familiar with web developement, it may seem trivial at first, but it is a worthwhile read. For newbies, it will be an invaluable resource.

Good and Bad
Prior to reading this book I knew HTML and a little CSS, but nothing about XHTML. This book did a good job covering HTML and XHTML. I learned a couple of things I did not know about HTML and I now feel I know just as much XHTML as HTML. I feel this book falls short when it comes to CSS. I did not gain any knowledge at all about CSS. The book covers internal CSS and does not cover external CSS. The examples on the books web page must be downloaded one at a time, no group download. If you are looking to learn HTML and/or XHTML this is a good book, but if you want to learn CSS I suggest a different book - "CSS The Missing Manual" by David Sawyer McFarland.

I compared, and this is the best
I sat at the bookstore for a couple hours comparing all the CSS guidebooks. I have programming experience, but wasn't familiar at all with modern web authoring when I started. This book is absolutely the best choice I saw, and I was very happy reading and using it. Too bad the title doesn't convey how user-friendly the book is. Color screenshot pictures are a big deal.

very usefull !
I really find this book usefull and I like it, because it's contents are very interesting and complete. It is methodic and easy to read,

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