Reviews for Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual

1. When you are looking for a excellent manual - this is the one

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2009

   Some booktitles do not always correctly reflect the contents of the book in question.
   This one does! "Creating a website - The missing manual" gives you exactly that - all the
   missing information you have been trying to dig up from software manuals, internet instructions,
   library books. All to no avail, until you get your hands on this book. It will force you
   to accept the unescapable disciplines of XHTML and CSS as well as good planning. Some important
   items however are hidden, as well and you have to look for them. Such as the item concerning
   "not to save" standard pages made up in Word or other programs as a web page in HTML (page 86).
   This should have been in CAPITALS. Another one is that ALL web-page-elements are in escence
   images, including most text elements. Boy, have I been wasting time in trying to get made-up text
   into a number of "easy" WYSIWYG software packages. I am not overly keen on the "tips" in the book
   being printed white on a grey background. Doesn't make for easy reading, especially when you're a bit older.
   Otherwise, this book IS the missing manual that you need at the side of your computer, whilst constructing a website.
   
   

2. **IM NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ONE** LET DOWN **

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2009

   If You want to trawl through 500 and odd pages for an all round basic introduction, "then you may like it"...
   but if you like to get on with learning skills or your looking beyond basics for a few extra tips and tricks "waste of time"!
   
   if you already know X html syntax with a bit of CSS along with the basic knowledge of what other technologies are used in website creation I doubt many chapters will be relevant and I doubt you'll be pleased to have this big lump of paper at your desk....
   "and if I didn't know I still wouldn't choose this book to get on and learn from"!
   
   (baring in mind I didn't check out any of the examples "downloadable via their website" or read most of the book, but I think i seen enough).
   "All in All the amount of dull and boring text takes away the clarity needed for the most part"! Just My View.

3. Brilliant

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2009

   A brilliant book that gave me loads more understanding than other books I've looked at.

4. Very good starter

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2009

   An excellent introduction to the subject that looks at HTML, XHTML, CSS etc and also covers the commercial aspects of website creation ie how you can attract visitors to your site and use it to generate income (if that's what you're after). But make sure you get the revised second edition featured here.
   
   This book fully deserves the five-star reviews given to it and I seriously object to the ludicrous one-star review left by 'Silver surfer'. His/her complaint is that the books tells you to "Fire up your favourite text editor" without explaining what a text editor is or what it does.
   
   Really?
   
   The text quoted above appears on page 28 of the book. If you look at page 25 you'll find a perfectly good explanation of what a text editor is and does, and painstaking instructions on where you'll find one on your computer and exactly how to open it. That was on page 25. What were you doing, Silver surfer? Reading the book backwards?

5. Good book for beginners

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2009

   This book provides a good basic introduction to the creation of a web site. Little or no prior knowledge is assumed; in fact, the earlier chapters were a little too basic for me. It doesn't cover any topic in depth, but covers the basics of xhtml, design tools and editors, CSS, frames, tables, menus and buttons, and javascript. Some of the topics, such as publicizing your web site, were of little interest to me. Others, such as the chapter on blogs and the advice on choosing a web site host, even seem a bit off topic.
   
   If you're starting from scratch and want to create your own web site rather than use one of the canned ones offered by many providers, this book should be sufficient. The resulting code will be much cleaner than that produced by some of the more basice web page design packages.