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Summary: Good book for beginners
Comment: Fun and interactive book for beginning Web designers. Even if you don't know HTML and CSS but are computer-savvy it's a bit slow at the beginning. But it then picks up and has you working on all kinds of projects that will help you in real-world situations. However, good luck later on finding specific commands using the index. It doesn't go into enough detail so you'll have to use the table of contents to find the command you're looking for.
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Summary: Great way to learn HTML
Comment: This is an excellent book. the author takes you step by step through the process of creating a web page with excellent examples and samples throughout. Each chapter is concise and to the point. I found myself going back to it often as it does a great job of giving you many options of ways things can be done besides the ways presented in the samples. The best way to learn HTML and CSS is right here.
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Summary: My Rave is Kind of Drop in the Bucket Here. . .
Comment: Every single one of the glowing reviews on this site is spot-on. There really isn't much I can say that will add anything new here, but I will say that this book and its methods made HTML, XHTML and CSS crystal clear to me. Other books I read on the subject were helpful, but the whole CSS thing just wasn't "clicking." CSS seemed cumbersome, awkward, and I was wondering if I would ever be able to understand it. Well, not only did I learn it, I went from knowing next to nothing when the book arrived October 25, 2007 to being able to design and code stylish web pages that meet HTML 4.01 Strict standards - by November 12, 2007. I have read a lot of instruction guides/textbooks, but I have NEVER read a book even remotely like this. I can't recommend it highly enough without blathering on like a giddy idiot. This book, coupled with Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition are two must-haves in any aspiring web developer's library. Thanks to both, I no longer feel I'm just "muddling through."
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Summary: Amazing Beginner book!
Comment: This book was amazing! i read it in one weekend and i have my site up and running now! Good for future reference as well to go back and look up some example code. It definitely is a great buy! Highly recommend it.
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Summary: If you want to understand HTML, XHTML and CSS, buy this book.
Comment: For years I have maintained my own table based web site using FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Having decided to convert the site to XHTML and CSS (and also understand a bit better what I was doing) I bought a couple of books on CSS. They turned my brain numb. I could NOT understand what, where or why any of it worked and I'd decided I was incapable of ever learning it until I came across Head First HTML, (thanks, [...]!). Having started from the very basics in Chapter 1 I finally understand it!! The book is totally amazing. At the end of every chapter I think, so THAT's how it works and because I now know the how and the why of it all, I remember it. Also, because they use so many visual aids, I have a sort of background mental picture of the structure of a site, into which all those previously incomprehensible s and s fit in an ordered and logical way. BUY IT.
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