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Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy An excellent HTML book that provides complete coverage of all HTML tags. It covers the complete HTML 3.2 standard, and then goes on to cover everything supported by Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0 including a number of otherwise undocumented features of these browsers. There is complete coverage of the new Cascading Style Sheet standard, including a listing of every style sheet property, its allowable values, and which browsers support it. This book exhaustively details exactly which tags work with which browsers along with those cases where the same tags do different things in different browsers. If you are trying to produce documents that look good on a broad range of browsers, this book should help you achieve that goal. As well as HTML this book covers multimedia, server-push and client-pull dynamic documents, frames, Java, and JavaScript. We also provide enough CGI programming information to get you started writing your server-side tools to support your forms and dynamic documents. Not just a reference manual, throughout the book, there are handy tips and tricks along with solid design advice and usage hints that help you create beautiful, effective documents. The author has been writing the Webmaster column for SunworldOnline since December of 1995 and started the HTML Q&A column for NetscapeWorld |
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HTML: The Definitive Guide is a superior book, written in an easily readable style for any level of user. The serious developer will find its HTML grammar, tag reference, design techniques, and browser specifics valuable; the casual author will appreciate the book's clarity, organization, and abundant examples. Every Web surfer will enjoy this outstanding book! Out of the hundreds of HTML books on the market, just one stands out for completeness and clarity. That book is HTML: The Definitive Guide. Clear technical writing ... makes this book required reading for every webmaster. An excellent book. The best and most thorough book on HTML to date.
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Ian S. Graham Every serious Web master and Web designer should have the most current edition of the HTML Sourcebook on his or her desk. This book manages to touch on nearly every aspect of Web site design and maintenance, all in a single volume. The bulk of this book is devoted to HTML 3.2, including proprietary extensions. Each tag has a full explanation, including an example of how it is used and how it interacts with other tags. The authors make sure to point out cases where Netscape and Microsoft implementations differ, as well as cases where browsers have bugs that affect the rendering of specific tags. A fair amount of attention is given to advanced topics such as cascading style sheets, scripting, and internationalization. Aspects of the Web that most people take for granted are covered here in great detail. There are whole chapters discussing Multipart Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). These topics may seem arcane, but knowledge of them is essential for Web masters. The book's technical content is balanced with useful chapters covering concepts of site design and construction, graphics and images, and Web site management. If you're creating a large scale Web site, you'll find advice on planning, designing, testing, and even promoting your site. Although written clearly and concisely, the HTML Sourcebook is not really a book for beginners, but it will probably wind up being the HTML book you reach for most often. |
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This is the best of the HTML cookbooks. Very readable, complete, interesting, fun. Perfect for "power beginners" who do not want a 2000+ page book. Recommended. Excellent reference book--well organized. A book no serious HTML'er should be without!
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Larry Aronson This book covers a wide range of HTML-related subjects, from an introduction to HTML to more complex things such as implementing cascading style sheets and JavaScript. As you'd expect, it starts out with a few chapters on the basics (what HTML is and where it came from) before moving onto the more complex bits. It has a lot on good practice, covering things like how to annotate pages to make it easier to work out what they're about when you come back to them later. It has an extensive chapter on planning your Web site. This is good to see - far too many books look purely at HTML coding and ignore the more important aspects of site design that make the whole process easier. The Manual of Style provides five separate tutorials, each covering practical examples such as creating a guest book using forms, building a site for a small business and using templates to automate the creation of Web pages. The CD-ROM contains the complete text of the book in HTML form plus HTML utilities and a collection of useful shareware. |
Reviews and Customer Comments4/5 Larry Aronson and Joseph Lowery present a systematic guide to learning HTML 3.2. Beginning with the basics of the Web itself and the fundamental characteristics of HTML, the authors capably lead readers through the entire Web page-building process, starting with a simple text-only page at first, and with each chapter gaining the ability to vary the text, add images and links, use forms and tables, and more. They cover the advantages of cascading style sheets and provide numerous examples readers can use as guides. Appendices provide quick references to HTML code, style sheet code, and online resources.
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Experienced Web authors who've learned through trial and error can effortlessly fill their knowledge gaps with the brisk writing and efficient cross-referenced outlines of authors Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy. If every Web author followed the hints compiled in the book's final chapter, the world would save millions of hours of download time--and there'd be fewer half-baked pages giving us all eyestrain. The Definitive Guide is meant as a bedrock reference work for sane page makers, and the basic strategies collected here won't lose their value soon.