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Seems easy to understand and implement. I like the fact that it's based on XML and I agree with the author's arguments about XML being overcomplicated due to the attributes/object confusion. His conciseXML model is a good idea even if you don't use the language. Of course the success of any new language is the creation of a large community of users.

Real women use notepad.exe to do HTML. Unfortunately, because remembering all of the tags and special characters, even real women need help every now and then. This quick reference guide is my constant companion when I am hacking away on my web page. It's well laid out and packs a lot of information in four pages. I frequently refer to the special characters section, but have also picked up a few tricks from the examples that are crammed into this guide. It even covers cascading style sheets, making this a wonderful accessory for a geekette. I also highly recommend "Web Design Color Reference Card" also by Bob Stein and available from Amazon as a companion to this guide. If you've ever struggled with getting the right color using hexidecimal codes, you'll appreciate the color reference. Together this HTML reference and the color reference card will make you a genuine MLCMF when it comes to HTML coding. Five stars and my strongest recommendation.

Mr.Zimmerman's book is a well-written and thorough work suitable for classroom, corporate, and individual use. Broken up into a series of eight learning projects, "Web Page Essentials" imparts a great deal of important information to the reader. Unlike many other technical manuals, however, "Web Page Essentials" is extremely accessible and reader-friendly--objectives and technical terms are clearly spelled out and defined, and individual lessons/tutorials are enhanced with numerous graphics and explanatory captions. "Web Page Essentials" is truly a first-rate educational resource.

You can easily get started. Most especially for beginners who wanted a fast way of learning. The words used are not so technical.

This Design Guide was the only reference I used to design my first website, with no prior knowledge of HTML and little understanding of the Internet on the whole. That first site, developed almost three years ago, was simple but successful and has changed little since that time despite changing designers and webmaster several times. The case studies and examples provided are informative and entertaining, and it is written in an easy-to-use format. If you see an example of something you'd like to appropriate for your own design, clear HTML instructions are provided at the end of each section. This is a book that not only offers tips for a beginning developer, but could prove to be useful for a developer who needs to sharpen his/her design skills.

I am very satisfied! The book was received in very, very good condition and received within 7-10 days! I highly recommend the seller.

This book contains great value. The Space Gems case study actually makes this book fun to do and drives home many basic XML techniques used in web development today. If you currently don't know anything about XML and want to gain a good working knowledge of how it is used - this is the book for you. Easy to read and the authors responded quickly to any quesitons and issues that I had.

One of the better books out there for beginners.

This book is a good read and full of great real world examples and referencing of products. It is valuable for both managers and individual contributors in functional IT organizations such as data administration, data management, database management, application development, strategic planning. I highly recommend it.

Everybody or most of everybody that are in web design in some form or another have heard about XML or even used it a bit. But personally I feel there are a small amount of resources out there that really teach you how to use XML in "real-world" scenarios. It's nice to know what it is and know that many applications use it behind the scenes, but it still doesn't help people understand how to use it for our own web applications.

This book solves that problem wonderfully by first showing you first what XML is and how to format proper XML documents. Then the author discusses how to publish XML documents in a couple web site examples (web catalog for one) and showing how to style these documents using regular CSS and XSLT, schemas as well as other technologies such as XPath and XQuery.

Each chapter presents a new problem (rendering XML to print, searching and merging documents, integrating web services, RSS feeds) and goes through step by step in how to work it out with really nice code examples. You really don't need to read this book end to end to get the most out of it. Just pick a chapter and read through it since the author re-summarizes what was previously covered to bring you up to speed.

So for example, if you have XML documents that you need to integrate into a database (DB2, SQL Server, etc) or want to learn how to create XML documents from a database table(s) it first shows the necessary SQL to pull the data you need, then how to use various tools to create your format.

The book does use one program (Stylus Studio 2006) in particular but the author mentions other open-source programs that you can use as well (in Appendix too). A great little book (under 300 pages) that shows you some great uses for XML as well as teaching you how and why you should use it.

A great buy!

While most books on this subject target Web services in internet based commercial applications, this book targets the most quickly growing developer audience for XML Web services - the corporate solution developer.

Don't be fooled however, by its slim 190 pages. There is ample content in those pages, including a comprehensive section on securing Web services.

One feature of the book that is especially worth noting is the "extra credit" section located at the end of each chapter. These sections encourage the reader to take the concepts presented in the chapter and apply them to solve current problems in their corporation.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading XML Web Services in the Organization and was able to immediately apply what I had learned in a real-world solution.