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Summary: Painless HTML
Comment: As an instructional designer by trade, I tend to be pretty picky as to my opinions regarding instruction books, but I must say this book rates as one of the best I have ever read. Why? Not only does it cover the topic, it makes it engaging and fun. I bought this book and an "Adobe Classroom in a Book" guide to Photoshop and started both at the same time alternating between the two (as kind of a crash refresher course on each topic). Although the "Classroom in a Book" exercises were light and well described (yet somewhat typical, mundane, and unimaginative), I felt like I was just slogging through them while waiting to get back to this HTML book. This book was so much more (can I say this about HTML?) "fun." I am definately sold on the Head First approach!
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Summary: An easy to follow guide to HTML
Comment: I found this book written in an easy to understand format with exercises that are relevant and also entertaining. I have not finished it yet but so far it is a great tool for learning HTML.
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Summary: Better than you can imagine.
Comment: The team that wrote this book must have gone through hundreds of edits until they had a concise, well written, and believe-it-or-not, a good humored book. If you have a friend (or child) that explains things to you in a really cute manner that holds your attention and makes you laugh at their enthusiasm and their interpretation of events, then you will understand how this book was written. It is such a good natured book that you will want to rush back here and leave them feedback; it's really the only way to Thank them for their effort. I have never enjoyed a technical book so much. I usually read long, boring technical books that are described as the "Bible" for the particular subject, so this was a complete surprise. If you want to teach yourself HTML & CSS, then stop dreading the task and join the journey that the "Head First" team has blazed. You'll soon understand why all these people are giving them 5 Stars.
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Summary: 118th 5 star rating
Comment: Needless to say that 117 reviewers before me were not mistaken.
At first, I was surprised (and somewhat skeptical) with the number of great reviews that this book had received to date. However, as an Electrical Engineer adventuring into HTML/CSS I decided to give this *inexpensive* (specially for a college student's budget) book a try.
If any of you know an Electrical Engineer by now, you should realize that we are not the most avid readers; that is why I was *shocked* when I finished reading this book (638 pages) in three (3) days. It is *that good-of-a-reading*, and here is why:
1. As most people emphasize, the learning tools provided by the authors (casual tone, interactive exercises, lots of graphics, good sense of humor, etc, etc, etc...) make the reading quite interesting. Please note that I have read less than five books from start to finish, being this one my first *technical* one that I've read completely.
2. They cover all the ground from the basics of HTML, all the way up to XHTML (which is really not a long way up ;-) ), and of course, they explain in great level of detail the whole CSS ordeal. All concepts are explained in the most straight-forward manner, so they are easy to grasp on the first read.
3. I personally did not use the HTML/CSS files available on the website (read paragraph below for why I didn't do this) because I was able to visualize all the content just using the book, after all, every example is illustrated on the book's pages as it would look on the computer browser; however, it is quite nice for people who want to learn-by-doing to have this content readily available.
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Way to go, Beth and Eric! Can't wait for you guy's PHP+MySQL book to come out.
Cheers,
Cisco
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Summary: I wish I could give this book 10 stars out of 5!!!
Comment: This is the greatest book ever for people who want to learn how to make a website! It doesn't assume that you know anything. It starts from the basics. I am already a web designer but I got this book to learn more. I already knew most of the stuff from the first few chapters, but this book changed the way I work by making things a whole lot easier. There is some humor on almost every page, which keeps you interested. I can't recommend this book strongly enough.
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