Customer Rating:  
Summary: Noooo! Please revise this book!
Comment: I must concur with the prior review, the final product, the result of very bad editing, is a disappointing mess.
I am completely new to web design, and had bought Foundation Web Design because it covered not just HTML, but all the other essential elements of web design: javascript, cascading style sheets, Flash, etc.
The editing is atrocious. What the reader is subjected to are elements of code introduced too early, only to be explained later, references to examples never given, incorrect code (when checked against other books describing the same code), screenshots which do not match what the code actually produces, etc.
I looked forward to its "dumbed down" presentation, to paraphrase the other Reveiwer, but the flaws in it's final presentation just get too much in the way of learning. For whatever reason, unfamiliarity with the coding, pressure to get the book to press by a certain time, the final product is a very sad disappointment.
Customer Rating:
Summary: very disappointing for many reasons
Comment: I was expecting a book that would more or less take the reader through the process of putting together a "top-level" website. It tries, but fails miserably.First of all the book is written not only for the absolute newbie, but for people who are AFRAID to write code. The entire book is dumbed down to the granny level. The book could have been subtitled, "Overcoming your fear of Javascript," but it would have failed at that as well! I happen to have some knowhow, but I wanted a reinforcement of the process at the beginner level. This book was a confusing, muddled, badly written disappointment. The concept of the book and the outline in the table of contents looked very promising, but the content itself was haphazard and inadequate. The last straw is that not all the files are available for download so the reader can't follow the examples in the expected manner. It seems to me that unless the author is incarcerated or otherwise unable, he should provide the chapter files for download to the suckers who bought the book.
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