Markup Languages Books

Having read several books on html, I found this one to be the ni plus ultra in it's field. Not only did it cover the basics of writing simple html well, it delved deeply into cgi scripting, and java. It helps to know some progamming, but the book can be used stand alone. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in creating truly interactive WEB pages

HTML: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques, Third Edition - Received in good condition and in a timely manner.

This was the textbook for an online course I just finished a week ago. I like the book and recommend it for beginner webmasters. You will learn the basics and then work up through Tables, Forms, and Frames.

You are given beginning files which you can download from the web. The book then guides you to modify these files by entering actual html code. You save and view the result on your computer. The book includes lots of screen shots so that you can compare your results to what it should look like.

Since you are working on your computer to edit and view the pages, feedback is immediate. If it doesn't quite match the screenshot, you check your typing and try it again.

All the example exercises are completed with Notepad and your regular browser.

Style Sheets, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML all get a chapter each of about 30 pages. The majority of the book is about html.

There is a quick reference appendix on lots of html elements. If you are looking for a book that you can read and "teach yourself", this is a good one. Remember my course was online and all the instruction I got was the book, itself.

I spent six to eight hours completing the exercises in each of the ten chapters that my course covered to give you an idea of the time you might spend.

All you need do to see how usefull this book is is to vist ,
WWW.booboys.com
i have never made a web site from scratch before. using only This book, notepad, MS photo editor and google. it looks like it was done by a pro.

[NDN Logo] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hybrid HTML Design by Jean Warner and Kevin Ready New Riders Publishing, 1996, 412 pages, paperback, $35.00 by Ruth Mountaingrove You've just put your web page on Netscape and it looks beautiful. But have you checked it out on America on Line or Compuserve? Yeech! What has happened to your beautiful design? Where have the buttons gone? Why is everything on the left side or in a straight line with no breaks? Why has the picture you put in changed to that size? Where are the frames? The answers to these questions and the solutions, as much as is possible, are in the book Hybrid HTML Design. Here you will learn what tags to use to accommodate not only Netscape which is probably the most complex and developed browser but you will also be able to make it possible for aol'ers and other more primitive browsers to enjoy your work. HTML is the abbreviation for HyperTextMarkup Language. A feature I like very much is the step by step explanations with photographs of browsers showing you what each browser will do to your web page. The HTML document behind each page is printed out. Tags are explained. Browsers that don't recognize HTML tags are illustrated with photographs showing what that looks like. Not pretty. The browsers dealt with are Netscape Navigator 2 and 3, Internet Explorer 2, Oracle Power Browser 1, Hot Java Alpha 1, NCSA Mosaic 2, Compuserve Spry Mosaic, America On-line 2.4, Prodigy, Cyberdog, PointCast, the Lynx browser and others. While you may be tempted, as I was, to buy PageMill 1, I realized as soon as I got it that I still needed to learn some HTML because PageMill is limited, They admit this in their user guide which accompanies the disk. The book also deals with server issues assuming of course you want to be your own server. This implies that you are doing a lot of web work and need your own space on the net. Accompanying the book is a Hybrid HTML Design CD-ROM with Gif Builder, Debabelizer lite, Plug-ins including Shockwave for Freehand, and Director, Crescendo, Future Splash, Photo Bubbles. There is also Microsoft Internet Explorer. Also included are demos of the Oracle Power Browser, Micromedia Director 5, and Shockwave. Shareware of BBedit, BBedit lite, World Wide Web Weaver, Adobe PageMill 1 and HTML Assistant Pro 2. Demos, meaning you can play but not save. In addition there are Adobe PhotoShop 3.05, Illustrator 6, Fetch 1.2, Premier 4.0.1, PageMaker 6 and much more, like conversion programs, and lots more information on Hybrid HTML Design. The book and CD-Rom are an excellent combination. The demos make it possible to have hands-on experience before buying expensive software. Janine Warner and Kevin Reading have created a well thought out tool for the webster. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruth Mountaingrove is an avid computer user, teacher of Senior Citzens, writer for Senior News and creator of her own web site: Web Page of a 74 Year Old Woman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Digital News Update * Redwood Country Update * Battling Scientology: Interview with Grady Ward * Back Issues

This book is great. It entirely explains how to write webpages and even contains some free software. I love it and read the entire thing the first day I bought it. You can't put it down.

This is one of the best reference books on this topic. Just like the King James Bible it is complete and comprehensive.

This is what I wrote the authors of this book:

Dear Anders and Michael,

I recently purchased your book entitled "An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies". I started reading it and I must say that you have done a wonderful job. It reads with ease and your presentation style is as limpid as pure mountain water. I particularly enjoy the fact that you are doing a masterful and in-depth tutorial of several of the recent outputs of the W3C's language mill without losing your critical mind and making accurate remarks for several annoying idiosyncrasies owing their existence more to historical and political reasons rather than simple efficient scientific design.

At any rate, I congratulate you on an excellent book and look forward to reading more of your didactic and scientific publications.

[...]

It would be very interesting to envisage a book in the style of
yours on the so-called Semantic Web. I, for one, as ILOG's current Principal rep in the W3C Rule Interchange Format WG, would welcome your critical eye and approach to this vast and unchartered domain.

Thanks again for writing this book. I will definitely recommend it as an effective and concise reference to the subject to anyone - whether newbie or old-timer.

Best regards,

-hak
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Hassan Aït-Kaci, Ph.D, Distinguished Scientist R&D
ILOG, Inc. - http://www.ilog.com/ - Product Division
Surrey, BC, Canada - Fri Aug 25 07:40:40 2006 PST

I'm an IT professional who had an XML project coming up in 2 weeks. I needed something to learn quickly and this book did the trick. It was excellent. The topics covered about everything you need to know. The examples were wonderful and it was an easy read (flowed nicely)...which is crucial when reading computer books. I would definately recommend this book to anyone who wants to get up to speed fast. I looked at a couple of other books like this, and this is by far the best. I now ordered the XML Progamming Bible for more serious applications with XML. But without this book, reading the next would be a world of confusion. I give it 5 stars.

This book was a mammoth effort. IE 5 is a very robust web development platform, and to present all the features and particulars of this product is a tall order.

This book offers lots of information to the casual developer as well as a good object model, behavior and XML reference to the hardcore web application developer using IE5.

The examples provided (there is an accompanying CD also) are very portable and may be modified to provide a base code for your web apps.

This is a "must have" as a reference for any developer using IE5.