Title: Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML
Review by Laura Pellerin
P*PCompAS
September 21, 2007
First Edition: December 2005
www.oreilly.com
Series: Head First
ISBN 10: 0-596-10197-X
ISBN 13: 9780596101978
Pages: 694
Highly recommended to learn painless webpage coding, this book is all you need.
Remember when your monitor took up half the desk space? And hypertext symbols took up half your brain space? Back then, you had to keep the book of color codes and symbols right next to your monitor in order to create a web page. Those days are gone. Pick up a copy of Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML and see for yourself how using O'Reilly's 'brain-friendly guide' will make web page coding.
Meet the
<q> element, compare it to a <blockquote> . Color your paragraph backgrounds with CSS and then insert the command into the <body> with XHTML. Believe me, your web pages will blossom.
I work with authors and am almost ashamed to admit how much unnecessary work I put into my code without the use of CSS and XHTML. But no more will I be stuck with excess baggage of MicroSoft web page generation. This fourty dollar book is worth the 400 dollar cost of a college course in web page construction, and less time intensive than taking the class or a refresher course.
'There Are No Dumb Questions' section answers why you don't have to close an empty element. Crossword puzzles, matching terms to elements, with the answers included, are Head First 'Building Blocks' serve the same purpose as burning other academic trivia into the brain. Step by step construction of web pages detail the use of CSS and XHTML terms. Links and files are covered in depth, while shortcuts in coding (Shorthand) saves your from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Interactive Forms laid out simply and logically.
What they don't cover in Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML, by Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman is summarized, with directions and samples. Frames are given on page 642, Scripting on pages 645, 646, Blogs are on page 650, and more is given in the last chapter.
Buy this book, Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML has everything you need to know in order to get your pages on the internet, in good standards.
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