HTML 4 for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides)
HTML 4 for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides) by Elizabeth Castro
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 384
- ISBN:
- 0201354934
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- Peachpit Press
- Publication Date:
- Nov. 16, 1999
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 453
Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or, in the most economical fashion, you write your own code out in a text file, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide will teach you what you need to know quickly.
The book covers the latest specifications of HTML 4 set by the World Wide Web Consortium, from the most basic tags that place text, images and links on the page to more complex ones that set up tables, frames or forms. New to this fourth edition, the book provides a chapter on debugging, including browser compatibility issues, expanded sections on Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, and CGI scripts for use with forms.
As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, HTML 4 features clear and concise instructions side-by-side with well-captioned illustrations and screenshots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a good reference book for intermediate users who are already familiar with basic HTML but need help with specific topics.
The book also includes extensive and useful appendices. One offers a chart that describes each tag (along with its compatibility with Netscape Navigator and/or Internet Explorer.) Other appendices show the code for special symbols, hexadecimal equivalents for RGB colours and a comparison chart for some of the HTML editors on the market. All in all, this is the perfect desktop reference for Web designers. --Angelynn Grant, Amazon.com
Topics covered: HTML code for creating Web pages, including formatting text, images, links, colours, tables, frames, forms, embedded multimedia clips, cascading style sheets, basic javascript actions like rollovers, finer points like drop caps and page counters, debugging code, browser compatibility issues, publishing pages on the internet, registering with search engines. --Sarah Taylor
Reviews for HTML 4 for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides)
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Good book well written easy to follow
Rated out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2009
I found this book easy to follow, and well written, but feel that maybe HTML may have moved on a bit since it was written. Don't just rely on what's in there, go and expand this by searching the web for "extra" features. If you haven't written anything in HTML before I would certainly recommend it. It will get you going and up to a pretty good standard, but I felt that some things could be better explained especially how websites use other "background" things like SQL databases and forms etc, but then maybe that's a separate subject. Overall well worth the money. -
HTML 4 for the world wide web
Rated out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2009
As a beginner I was looking for help and information on how to build a web page from scratch, This book was well worth the read, It was easy to follow with easy to read step by step instruction in plain English! It also had plenty of picturs again in a step by step format. It actualy did what it says it will and covers everything about building a Web Page from start to finish including web colours and page set ups. an excelent buy. -
Great book
Rated out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2007
This was the first book I bought to be able to learn HTML and do web design. I still use it as a referance and think it can teach you a lot about HTML and basic design.
Id recommed it to any one who was starting out! -
Castro rocks
Rated out of 5 stars, August 12th, 2004
A lot of HTML guides out there are woefully outdated (and not particularly clear either). This book is in its fifth edition, so she must be doing something right! But she has brought out an even easier and clearer guide which doesn't seem to be available yet on Amazon, but which I heartily recommend for newbies - 'Creating a Web page in HTML' . This slim volume is the best introduction to creating web pages I have seen and is produced with extensive visuals and screenshots (both Windows and Mac) in full colour. It is thoroughly up to date and provides clear explanations and examples of Style Sheets, Colours, navigaton, images and everything else you need to get a basic web site online. After mastering this book you can then move on to HTML 4 for the WWW, which, by the way, Castro points out is a *reference* book. Oh, there's a companion website too. -
Not reading this book costs hours in tinker time.
Rated out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2002
I like to tinker around with new codes to see if I can learn their pattern or logic before reading. This time it backfired on me. Several places I could have saved time from rewriting and designing the site were pointed out in this book. The most glaring (and I hate to admit it) boo boo was pointed out on page 41 where it says that word processors have a "save as html" option and do not use it. The code kept disappearing on me and I thought it was either bad syntax or a bad word processor. It never dawned on me that this option was for converting word documents to html. I like her attitude about using the individual html descriptors in place of CSS. It makes more sense to have the control need the object. CSS has a COBOL attitude in having everything laid out in a section separate form the code. Bottom line html is the lowest common denominator and can be used in any situation. And this book is the clearest on how and why to use it.