HTML for Dummies
by Ed Tittel, Stephen J. James

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Book Review: If you want to program static web pages, this is your guide.
Summary: 4 Stars

Tittle and James do a great job at first bringing the reader up to speed on the internet which, as we all know, is the environment of HTML pages. Then they went into an introduction of HTML basics which is the part I skipped because, as I said before, I had already learned that stuff online. Then it was on to the most valuable section of the book: a complete list of the "HTML tag team" and a complete listing of the entire ISO-Latin-1 character set. You have no idea how many times I refer back to these sections every day. They are worth the $20 alone. Then they covered the advanced topics such as tables, frames and forms and grouped them all together in the same general area of the book which was convenient because those were the main topics I set out looking for. Towards the end, they give some very useful tips on coding and design that will help in any project you do.

The only 2 other books on HTML that are worth your money are HTML Goodies by Joe Burns and HTML 4: A Visual Quickstart Guide by Elizabeth Castro. I would reccomend any and all of these three as they all have their own strong and weak points. I would say that between the two aforementioned, HTML Goodies would compliment this Dummies book the best because it discusses topics that I missed in the Dummies book. For example, Goodies does an excellent job at explaining how CGI works in HTML while Dummies briefly touches on it and then refers you to their CD. This, along with other relevant issues, were either missing from the Dummies book or only on the CD. There were many other topics as well that I looked up in the index only to find out that they were on the CD which is much more of a hassle than flipping the pages of a book. Other than that, HTML for Dummies was a great tutorial and as I said before, the HTML tag listing and character set listings are indispensable and the best I have ever seen. For a well-rounded easy-to-read basic tutorial that also serves as a helpful reference, look no further.

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• Subjects > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools
• Software
• Web Development > Web Design
• Science & Math > Mathematics