HTML Goodies
HTML Goodies by Joe Burns Ph.D.
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 624
- ISBN:
- 0789726114
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- QUE
- Publication Date:
- Oct. 22, 2001
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 523
HTML Goodies deserves a place in the ranks of the best Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) books on the market. Not only does author Joe Burns teach readers how to use HTML (and in such a wonderfully friendly way), he also explains how to create stylish, efficient Web documents that will keep surfers coming back.
Burns has structured the book into a series of brief tutorials, each of which tackles a particular technical challenge that might confront a Webmaster. One chapter explains image maps, another goes into depth on frames, while others explain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Java applets. The tutorials consist of a series of experiments--this code yields this result--interspersed with questions and answers. Where it's appropriate, Burns suggests techniques he has found effective in a variety of situations. You will be astounded by what you can learn from his advice.
HTML Goodies sprang from Burns's Web site of the same name, a popular one with lots of tutorials and downloadable freebies. It features discussions about Web page development, and Burns is always a frequent contributor. The site does a superb job of standing in for the CD-ROM that this book lacks--the site's a better deal, since it's more current and allows interactivity. --David Wall
Reviews for HTML Goodies
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disappointing
Rated out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2008
This book is a strange mixture of annoying teaching techniques and over-hyping the qualities of the author and the book. Although the book is 500 pages long , only 250 deal with HTML ; the rest of the book deals with a variety of associated subjects. Part of the sales hype is that a great deal of additional information and help is available from the HTMLGOODIES website. Perhaps because the book was published in 1999 , I found the website over-hyped and of little help. Many of the website references didn't exist any more and those that were there were of little help. Although the general content is more up to date than other books ; it suffers from lack of examples , annoying teaching techniques , poor explanations and an assumption of considerable computer programming background knowledge before starting . -
Good despite a few glitches
Rated out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2001
Cuts to the chase, the book plunges in to some good hands-on examples. There are a few inconsistancies in the book and you ask yourself a couple of times why the same stuff seems to get repeated here and there. I thought stylesheets and tag attributes could be better explained (you can often use both to give the same effect) as it is sometimes confusing in this respect. Some typos meant not all the examples work as printed. However, an excellent book that covers a lot of ground in a simple style without being boring - I'd certainly recommend it! -
DO NOT buy this book! IF you want a book ......
Rated out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2001
that teaches you to make great pasta sauce; or to tune your DVD AV-System! BUT if you want a clear informative and succint book that covers HTML thoroughly and in a style that gets through a brain muddled by the cares of this world - very few come this close, in such a readable way. It even dabbles in DHTML, XML, JavaScript and Java for beginners, and covers them well. It could have had a better Tag appendix, but that is being finicky! -
For web design and building this has to be the one book.
Rated out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2000
This book is the ideal. Some are for dummies or idiots, and some are thousand page text books. This one beats the lot. It is friendly, non-technical, and logically put together. The information is presented to make each stage of web site construction easy and understandable. A must-have. If I had only one book on web design, this would be it. 527 pages. Sections on frames, images, tables, colours, forms, links, style sheets, Java, Javascript, CGI and much more. -
A bible for HTML
Rated out of 5 stars, October 12th, 1999
Awesome in its easy readability. This is a great book for the beginner, but content is sufficient to use as a reference book for future work and as a reminder of tricky code. This book is beside me each time I web design and has become a battered, weathered old friend. A must in my opinion, if you want to learn HTML!