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Summary: Easy to follow!
Comment: I have recommended this book to my friends.
It seems a very low price for so much useful information!
Takes you step-by-step to completion of a website using nothing more than "notepad" . . .
Pretty freekin excellent as far as I'm concerned. :D
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Summary: Excellent choice for a novice.
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The title of this book should be Xhtml, the author pushes xhtml as the only correct way to build a web site. As I learn more I am finding out this is not true, there are many experts who, in fact feel just the opposite. I still like this book, and I would still recommend it, but before you get all hung up on xthml and standards verification, you might want to read some opposing views, they are not hard to find!
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This book will take you from 'uh, what's an html' to a completed product, even some material for those not fluent in windows. Includes a primer on graphics also. May also be of use to someone who has some limited experience building websites the wrong way. (that would be me ;) )The book follows the author's example building a site, with occasional forays into concepts not directly related to the example site. More experienced developers may find this book a bit too noobish, but it's not meant to be a reference book, it's a tutorial. The writing style is interesting and shows just enough humor.
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Summary: The best way to jumpstart your knowlage of CSS and creating standards comliant websites
Comment: This book was one of the best purchases I could have made to get my website project off the ground. I personally know html 4.0, but am not as failure with the new html and xhtml standards. Well that was true until I read this book.
Ian Lloyd writes in a way that I found to be very easy to access the information and to understand it. You can also go right to the subject that you need at any time for a project by looking at the table of contents. I found the book to be a quick read and it very quickly emerged me in enough knowledge to convert my site over to CSS with little effort.
Overall I am a big fan of the Site Point books, they make it easy to learn how to make standards compliant websites and the format that the books are printed in is very accessible.
I recommend two other Site point books after reading this one for further web development. I am currently reading both to create a better layout than my current one on my site. Both are by Rachel Andrew and go very well with this book by Ian Lloyd.
HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
If you already have a fair knowledge of CSS you may be tempted to bypass this book and go straight to the more in depth design books like the two I mentioned above. However if you are not failure with site standards compliance or xhtml, you may want to purchase Ian Lloyd's book anyways. HTML Utopia does a good job of introducing CSS and covers site compliance, but Lloyd covers it more in depth.
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Summary: Decent introductory book
Comment: It's pretty good at the introductory level. Don't buy it if you are looking for more in depth treatment with ready to use patterns and practical tips. I wish the author skipped trivial stuff like how to open and save files in windows notepad or how to refresh your browser window.
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Summary: Excellent book
Comment: I've read alot of technical books over the years and this is easily one of the best. Well-written, focused, and organized, it imparts its lessons in an interactive manner, creating a mythical web site as you work your way through the book. I would highly recommend it for someone who wishes to learn how to create HTML pages using CSS to handle the presentation.
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