HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition
by Elizabeth Castro
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Book Reviews of HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition
Book Review: Excellent for beginners and intermediate readers
Summary: 5 Stars
This book covers the basics of website design and will give you all of the basic and intermediate technical knowledge on how to build and maintain websites. I would recommend this book because it is very thorough in its coverage of HTML, XHTML and CSS.
Using this books, you will learn how websites are structured, how they are layed out, and how they are given "properties" such as font sizes, border colors, background images, and much more in this area. I think any new student of web design will want to consider this book. I have looked at many, and this is certainly one of the best. Also, I would recommend buying the latest edition whenever purchasing any web programming book as the standards change with some regularity.
Book Review: Poor choice for beginners
Summary: 1 Stars
The style and layout of this book is awful. It is difficult to understand and unstructured. I never knew if she was discussing HTML or CSS. The author jumps from subject to subject and does not provide clear examples. To further complicate things, she relies on obscure data about Barcelona in ALL the examples.
Trying to learn a new subject while being mercilessly tortured with useless information about a foreign city and then bombarded with very colorful images at every turn made reading this book a real challenge. Needless to say, I am very unhappy with my purchase. If you want to learn XHTML and CSS, I suggest you look elsewhere. If, for some odd reason, you want to learn about Barcelona, you might want to read it.
Book Review: One of the most productive book!
Summary: 4 Stars
The sixth edition has continued to live up to its name. It is indeed a 'Visual Quickstart Guide.' Unlike other books, it presents clear and concise instructions, and no lengthy text. Everything is delivered in point forms. Useful tips are sprinkled over the text here and there as well.
It can also serve as a quick reference tool that is easy to look up to. The appendices consists of the following: some commonly used (X)HTML elements and attributes, CSS properties and values, and some javascipt events. It is definitely worth it to own a copy of it.
It is a beginner's book and it offers more than enough to get you a decent layout for your web pages. Ideal for any novice designer to wants get productive fast.
Book Review: learning HTML
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a student at the local community college so I am going through this book slowly and doing the exercises.
The book could be better.
At one point I had to create a br so that two lines of text could be indented.Even though, the exact text was not in the book, it suggested that I use tag to do the job. It didn't. I had to ask the head of the department to help and it took her 1/2 hour to debug. It didn't mention the tag to use, which finally solved the problem. However, the blockquote tag got almost a full page where the pre tag got one sentence. No wonder it was overlooked.
I haven't finished the book yet, but based on the first 5 chapters, I feel that it could be better and go into more detail.
Book Review: Highly Recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
Overall, this book was a very valuable resource. Let me temper this by saying that I am an advanced computer user, with experience programming in many languages. That said, this book was a great refresher for me, that even taught me some things. I would definitely recomend this book to a novice user.
This book is an extremly useful guide to XHTML (or HTML) and CSS. It especially promotes the merits of CSS (cascading style sheets) in web developement, and the ease they provide in facilitating consistent design throughout a website. For an advanced programmer familiar with web developement, it may seem trivial at first, but it is a worthwhile read. For newbies, it will be an invaluable resource.