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Summary: Head First HTML
Comment: This book is great. In very clear, easy to understand English it spells out the concepts and the lessons really sink in by performing the practices. The exercises also help the solidify lessons learned. If you have no experience or very limited experience with HTML and CSS this is a great, fun book with which to gain a nice foundation on which to build more sophisticated knowledge.
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Summary: Really getting started with web design
Comment: This is one of those rare books whose author(s) really WANT you to learn and understand a subject and be able to apply it and have no other motive for writing the book other than that, AND take every possible precaution to make sure you really get it.
It's for people who are new to web design even if they know a little HTML. It gets you from floundering beginner up to someone who is well grounded in all the basics of web design, can put together web pages and websites using XHTML and CSS, really knowing what you're doing up to intermediate level. You need this book BEFORE you try to understand and use Dreamweaver of GoLive or whatever and BEFORE you read books on designing websites. In fact, this is the first book you should buy if you want to have anything to do with web design.
I can't recommend this book strongly enough. It is by far the best I have found for getting started in web design and construction. It IS where you start to learn this subject. Thank goodness this book was written and thank goodness I found it.
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Summary: Web Structure and Design Made Simple
Comment: For a particular type of person out there who used to maybe dabble in web design with WYSIWIG apps and splicing code from other web sites but never really understood what they were doing, this book is for them. This book breaks it down and not only explains the "how" but also the "why" things work the way they work in the big wide world of webbishness. For much of the first half of the book, the reader might be thinking, "Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know all of this already." But then they turn a page and go, "Whoa... I didn't have a clue what I was doing before!" My suggestion: work through the entire book and don't just skip to the CSS. There is a method being taught here that's very subtle, but worth it to anyone who doesn't want to do a lot of back-tracking later.
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Summary: Excellent if you want to know how and why HTML works
Comment: I've taken training courses and read reference books, but this one is different because it explains HTML using real world comparisons that make sense. It points you to other references as well, and explains how and why HTML & CSS work to create web pages. Now I feel that I am writing code, not regurgitating it. It makes the difference between a web page that just is and a web page that is great, versatile, and usable. NOT A REFERENCE BOOK! If you need a reference book, I suggest HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy--it has everything, but it won't teach you HTML like Head First will.
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Summary: Geeks embrace the art of communication!
Comment: I've been an IT professional for about twenty years now and it's been an endless frusteration to me that so many computer professionals, either in their writing or in person, simply have no willingness or ability to genuinely teach others what they know, even though they'll invest huge amounts of time pretending that that's what they're doing.
Someone once said that you can only teach someone what they "almost know" already. To teach someone anything, you need to begin where they are at, not where you are at. This book does just that. It begins with you, not the author's ego.
I already knew a lot of HTML and related technologies, but I really needed a refresher course to get me up to speed with the very latest standards in web site development. I was able to go through this book rather quickly and pick and choose the material to study in depth. I didn't need all the puzzles or other teaching methods that are in this book, but I really appreciated that all that stuff was there. People with many different learning styles will benefit from this book. I find it a lot easier to adapt to overcommunication than to undercommunication.
Finally, the color printing throughout the book was a very nice touch. Kudos to the people who created this series of books!
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