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Summary: Truly Awesome
Comment: When I first picked this up, I thought "Wait, I've been doing web sites for years. I know a lot about HTML." Well I was wrong. I learned quite a few things about HTML & CSS I previously was unaware of. Not only does this book contain a wealth of information for any web designer (or beginners wanting to learn more), but it conveys that information in a way that's at times funny, entertaining and informative, all at the same time. This is the kind of book that makes you "want" to learn, as opposed to "needing" to learn. Not only are there coded examples, but there are exercises in each chapter to help you learn. And with all the humorous little bits throughout the book, in addition to the diagrams and illustrations you can;t help but walk away feeling like HTML is a breeze to learn.
I wish there'd been a book like this when I first started to learn web design several years ago. It would have saved me some mistakes along the way, which I've now had to unlearn as well as deleting from the sites I maintain. The Head First series is one of the best ones O'Reilly has ever published, which is saying a lot considering the high quality books they have published. Not only that, it's set up in a way where it is easy to go back and refer to various topics once you're finished reading the book. I can see I'll have this book a long time.
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Summary: Head First for Dummies?
Comment: I only just started reading but I like the "work your way thru it" style. It reinforces the mental with the practical.
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Summary: Make writing html & css interesting
Comment: This is a great book. Great language skill. The book have great skill to present the material that the writer need to commuincate to the reader in a relaxing and interesting style. I finish reading the book in a very short amount of time. I cannot stop reading the book because the book make learning so fun. It is highly recommendable to html beginner.
Best,
Rita
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Summary: Great Book! I have remembered everything I read.
Comment: Don't know what else to say, except I want to own the rest of these "Head First" books. Awesome, every page or very nearly every page has full color.
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Summary: Sloppy testing of first exercise diminishes book's usefulness
Comment: When I purchased this book I wanted more than a hip, new-age way of getting me to absorb the material, I wanted the exercises in the book to work. Like myself, the 30 or so other reviewers were influenced to purchase the book by the pictures, cartoons, and sometimes irreverent prose. None of us could test out the book's exercises in the store. I can't vouch for the other reviewers, but once I got the book in front of my computer I began at the beginning and in the first exercise, Uh oh, problems. I am not alone. One just has to go to the HeadFirstLabs online forums to read that the exercise apparently wasn't tested on the world's most popular browser, IE6. If the first, and what logically should prove to be the simplest exercise in the book is flawed, what disappointments and frustrations do the following 620 pages have in store for us IE users.
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