HTML Books

This is a pretty good book for learning HTML and XHTML. It's very basic, and perfect for a beginner. Most codes are explained thoroughly, however, sometimes the author just writes a code to do a job and doesnt explain how it works or how exactly to use it.

It has ALOT of important information about creating a website and how to test a website, so you can meet all your users needs.
I would recommend this book to a beginner who wants to learn more about HTML/XHTML or someone who would like a great reference book.

Exactly the book on Web Design that I was looking for to advance my knowledge! I bought it used on amazon.com and it surpassed my expectations! This book explains everything that it claims and more...HTML and XHTML, as well as related technologies are discussed. This is an awesome starter book for beginners to learn quickly, and is an all around great reference for experts. This book will help you learn HTML, and XHTML and prepare you for where you want to go next. GREAT GREAT GREAT!

I would highly recommend this book for all type of users, from novice to experts. This book is easy to read and understand. It has excellent tips through out the book. The writer's made sure in this book that you would learn everything about coding web pages in both HTML and XHTML. They also touch on other web technologies like CSS, JavaScripting and XML. Don't look any further, this book is the right book for you.

I have a self-taught knowledge of XHTML, and I got this book hoping to learn more about it. I studied it from cover to cover, and, though I would not claim to me a master or expert of the subject, I definately have a broder, sturdier understanding of XHTML. The book provided good examples, so the reader can clearly understand the lesson. I was also surprised to find that it is strikingly different than online tutorials in that it does not simply define tags or provide template-like code for the reader to copy into notepad. Instead, it breaks down the tags and the code, so the reader can fully understand it and manipulate it in his/her own code. I was also surprised to find that it was not at all like the technical reference books that I am used to. The Mastering XHTML book does not assume that the reader has any knowledge of XHTML when starting the book. So even if you know absolutely nothing about XHTML, you will be able to understand this book.
It is definately for beginners, though. So if you're formally trained or already at the O'Reilly Definitive Guide level, you will be horribly bored. If, however, you are like I was and are looking for something to build a sturdy foundation about XHTML, you will be pleased. This is also a good book for transitioning from HTML to XHTML.

This is a long read but pack full of great info. The future of the web is XHTML, any developer needs this book.

This book lists everything in HTML 4.x that has been deprecated in XHTML 1.0. Though not especially great for writing XHTML from scratch, this book is a prize for updating sites written in HTML 4. x to XHTML. With a few dozen searches you'd know everything in the web pages that needs to be changed.

By now, I guess most of IT professionals have atleast heard about XML and know what problems XML can help solve, however it's challenging to keep up with fast evolving technologies around XML, like RDF, Topic Maps, Schemas, etc. I myself had heard about these technologies, but didn't quite understand them fully till I read Professional XML Meta Data from Wrox. As far as I know, this is the only book available in the market today that covers technologies useful for data description, discovery and exchange, in so much detail. The book covers XML Schemas, XML Linking and Querying, both the RDF specifications, Topic Maps and more. All the topics are explained in detail, the book is very well connected and the chapters flow nicely in sequence. I personally liked the final chapter "Advanced Meta Data Use Cases" that covers couple of areas where meta data can enhance the applications.

If you're looking for in-depth detailed information on RDF, XML Schema, DAML + OIL etc., then don't buy this book.
If you're interested in DAML + OIL, and applications of it, then you don't want this book. (It covers DAML + OIL, but only touches its surface.)
If you want to read about new standars rising from the XML community, and you don't have any particular preference, then this might be a book you like.
If you can't cope with minimal cohesion, then you definitely should not buy this book. There's no single message in this book.

If you need to know about the latest XML metadata technologies or concepts like the Semantic Web and machine readable metadata, you need this book. I found it very useful in explaining RDF (there are three excellent chapters on RDF) and Topic Maps, which are potentially difficult subjects to understand. The book also suggests some interesting uses for metadata in the future, and has a useful chapter on extracting metadata from databases.

As a writer who develops instructional materials, I am always interested in well-written training guides. Unfortunately, this is not one of them.

Siegel's informal style is appreciated, but his terminology is sometimes obscure, confusing and even erroneous. He uses acronyms that aren't defined for his students. For example, in one case he refers to an MRU list without first telling you that he's describing the 'Most recently used file list' in the General tab of the Options dialog box. In another case, he discusses the Project pane and making the view wider or narrower. In one view, the buttons also contain labels and in the narrower view, they turn into icons. In both cases, he refers to them as buttons, which I think is misleading.

I recommend this guide with reservations: There aren't many training guides out there on this subject. If you can't afford training in RoboHelp HTML and need to come up to speed on this application, then you should probably pick this up. Otherwise, go for the in-class training and avoid this book.

I just finished going through this book and must say that I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I learned and how quickly I learned it.

The value of the lessons taught in this book were evident a few days after I completed the last exercise when I created my own project. Went without a hitch.

Top Notch!

I went out of my way to enter this review, because as I used this book to learn RoboHTML 2000, I often shook my head and thought: this is so well done that I've got to get back to say: Good job! The information is very well organized and laid out. All the steps were well thought out (some typos, but they didn't get in the way). A lot of books, like those 24-hour ones, advertise themselves as teaching you an application, but this book really, truly taught me the application. I'm a tech writer with 12 years experience, and I've got to say that a truly effective book is a wonderful and not common thing. This book exposed me to all the parts of RoboHTML 2000, and made me go through some steps to learn just enough of the various parts so that I'll be able to go back and put the skills to use. NOTE: This book was obviously not written quickly, but is the product of users really learning how to do the tasks. You can tell because the instructions "think of everything." Really, I wasn't left hanging in confusion once. Good job!

There are no other books on this topic out there. This one is pretty good. I was able to follow all of the steps. As a veteran Web Master I was surprised at the level of HTML coding covered in the book. The exercises made quick work of difficult topics.

I was able to follow everything. Since this is the only HTML Help book out there, I have to give it a thumbs up. My assessment of various items in the book: +frames [very good example] +forms [ok, but no info about server side] +HTML Help basics [solid] -sounds and graphics [annoying] -cover [very flimsy paper] -final exercise [none] -fonts [very poor and hard to read/follow] -bookmarks [none] -scripting [none]

Within 2 hours I had a solid start on writing a help system. With a very short deadline to meet, I needed something that would get me up to speed in a very short time. I literally had the entire help system written in a few days. The book was easy to follow. I had never used RoboHelp HTML before, and I can now use it with confidence because of this book. Our FTP product was released on time. Excellent book!

This cards really are quite beautifully printed, on good thick stock paper and have tons of great material. The color information is not quite as relevant now that using web-safe colors isn't a big deal, but this book has so much other great information, particularly if you do coding work and need the Javascript, DOM and RegEx guides. The CSS guide is also my favorite quick-reference sheet for doing style work. The only thing I don't particularly care for is how the JS and RegEx guides have "assert()" around most of the statements. While I understand from a programming standpoint this is more correct in terms of it being a "test" statement, it reduces the readability of what is really just a guide, not an actual programming construct. But that's a fairly minor nit, overall this is highly-recommended, go find yourself a copy!

Lots of information packed into this spiral bound set of 5 laminated 8.5 x 11 inch cards. You won't need as many reference books, as most of the frequently used items can be found in this set. The color chart is a must have. Printed in a very small but crisp font. Not as well made a previous sets from this publisher, but still good if you're seriously into web development.

Anyone who regularly finds themselves looking up syntax for an HTML tag, CSS Style, and/or Javascript statement in a book (e.g. check index and then flip to page) will like this VisiBone booklet because it will save you time. In fact, I hardly look in my books any more for this type of info -- a quick lookup in this booklet is all I need. There is also other helpful info in the book besides just syntax, for example, if an HTML tag has an equivalent Style, it will tell you that next to the HTML tag. There is a lot of detail here in just a few pages and the color format is very readable; it's like a portable reference library for client developers -- great for coding on the road because of its portability.

The Web Design CD Bookshelf CD-ROM by O'Reilly, Associates has received a "BEST BOOK for 2002" award by readers of the Design & Publishing Center, the Editors of DT&G Magazine and the Design-Bookshelf.com.

Need we say more.

The "6 Bestselling Books on a CD-ROM" on the cover looks impressive, but dig into the info contained on the CD and it begins to look a lot less so.

Some of these titles are definitely looking a bit long-in-the-tooth ("Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" was published back in early 1998, and the "Cascading Style Sheets" title is looking a lot less "definitive" in the two years since it first came out). In fact, with the sole exception of the book included with this CD pack, all of the books are at least a year old, limiting their usefulness. Can you say "retread"?

The ActionScript title is good but I would have preferred a more generally-applicable book instead, like, say O'Reilly's recent book on JavaScript...

Still, having all of this info at your fingertips in a CD-ROM format is genuinely useful -- the search feature is fast and accurate -- more so than you're likely to get when looking up the same keyword on a major search engine. So far I've found the XHTML title and the Web Design in a Nutshell (which is the "book" included in this package) the most-referenced titles, the latter in particular an excellent (and relatively recent) publication.

The Web Design CD Bookshelf: Version 1.0 contains six different, complete guides that, taken together, cover everything anyone needs to know about the art of web design. Novice web designers and experienced professionals alike will appreciate being able to quickly look up answers to the most harrowing difficulties at a few clicks of the mouse. The CD-ROM includes the complete text of Web Design in a Nutshell 2nd Edition; HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide 4th Edition; Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide; ActionScript: The Definitive Guide; Information Architecture for the World Wide Web; and Designing Web Audio: RealAudio, MP3, Flash, and Beatnik. Truly the definitive compendium about web design, and the perfect reference for anyone seeking create or improve their own website. The system requirements for The Web Design CD Bookshelf: Version 1.0 are a browser software such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer supporting HTML, and to support the search engine, a Java-enabled browser supporting Java version 1.1.2 or later.

This book is great. It covers all the basics of HTML. It's a must have.

This is a basic get-started manual for the uninitiated, wannabe web designer. The author leads you through basic information in the text and supports it with online material as well. The activities are sequenced to build on previous ones. There are some overestimations by the author of readers' prior knowledge, but basically a recommended text for those who want to create web sites.

Web Writing/Web Designing is a basic and straight to the point introduction to Web page design. It is written for a beginner approaching content development for the first time. The book is organized in a how-to handbook style that could supplement a classroom or could be a used as a self-teaching guide. The book offers practical explanations of HTML tags, Web design features, and other important needed information for creating Web pages. Batschelet manages to cover all the technical details in easy to follow language and provides step by step examples, which can be view in a supplemental Web site. When the book moves to more advanced topics such as tables and frames, the book remains simplistic and easy to follow. The explanations remain clear and the details are not compromised

Strengths: Each chapter builds upon the other and the book allows a reader, early on, the ability to begin writing HTML code. Although each chapter address a different Web creating topic, all focus on a how-to of HTML coding and all conclude with a writing assignment that utilizes the topic of instruction within each chapter. The end of each chapter also provides a thorough table of HTML tags used in the lessons and a list of outside Web sites that offers other reference material. The assigned projects of each chapter can be combined into one large project that ultimately can become the purpose of the book, a self-designed Web site.

Weaknesses: All of the weaknesses of Web Writing/Web Design are directly related to the date that the book was written. It was published in 2000 and the book is simply outdated. Also, due to the age of the book, many of the links that Batschelet provides the reader to use as further reference sites are no longer available.

If I could give it more stars, I would!

If you want a reference book for XHTML and CSS, this is it! If you also want a tutorial for XHTML and CSS, this is it!

The first 370 pages are an alphabetical reference to XHTML. Each tag is listed with ALL of its possible attributes as well as guides to browser compatability (even WebTV). The next 130 pages gives the same treatment to Cascading Style Sheet syntax. The next 190 pages is a tutorial for using XHTML and CSS. The tutorials are very well done; using pictures only when needed and presenting lots of information. The Appendixes don't just rehash the info from the book. They present things like the complete Unicode character set (40pgs), a glossary and a 50 page cross referenced index.

I can't recommend this book highly enough!

The reference section for both XHTML and CSS are the best I have seen so far. I keep the book just for that on my desk. For this section I would give it 5 stars (and even more).

However the tutorial section is bad as bad can be and full of mistakes. F.ex in chapter two there is a listing of an XHTML strict document but has the bgcolor attribute in the body tag. And so it goes on throughout the whole tutorial.

If you need an excellent reference book shoot for this one, if you need a tutorial you better look for other books.

This book is a must have for any serious tag jockey. When I first picked it up. I looked at it and thought to myself "what the heck kind of book is this". Then I figured it out. Actually it's two books for the price of one.

The first half is a very clear concise detail of every tag and attribute in XHTML and a reference of CSS. If all you need is to refresh your memory about a particular tag this is where you'll find your answers. Your not going to find a better reference anywhere.

The second half of the book consists of tutorials for XHTML and CSS in very clear easy to understand form.

At first I thought "They put this thing together backwards! The refence should be in the back"; but as I use the book as a reference I love having the reference in the front so I don't have to go clear through the book to find what I want. Very well done!

I would have gladly paid what this book cost for either of these two pieces; the fact that I got both in one book for such a meager sum is to me simply amazing.

An excellent resource for anyone who knows HTML and wants to learn XHTML; a critical component for future Business to Consumer commerce systems.

This book had many positive qualities and a few negative ones. It was a well-written book, with comprehensive coverage of the topic. However, it was longer than necessary and contained to much filler.

The concept behind the xhtml 1.0 spec is relatively simple. You must perform the following: close all your tags, include the xhtml dtd, use all lower case letters, use CSS instead of the deprecated formatting tags, and put script in cdata sections. The book required 304 pages to make these points, as it showed how each would impact 12 different browsers. On the positive side, this book was very concise and well written. At one sitting, I completed over 200 pages. It was truly enjoyable to read and the topics retained my interest.

Overall, I give this book four-stars. The only negative being the large quantity of filler content. The book was perfect otherwise.

this book is full of good information, particularly if you don't know much about xml but know a lot about html. the first 10 chapters are great, particularly the sections on the document type definition (dtd) -- you can see where the W3C defines html and how much of that definition is missing or added to by the different browsers. unfortunately, the book is not laid out very well. there are a lot of references to later chapters that leave you wondering what they are talking about until you get there. this book is written by two different people, and it seems obvious who wrote what chapters. i give 4 stars, not 3, because there is enough useful information in this book to make it worth reading and having for the html expert looking to make the move towards xml.