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This book dates back to 1999, and since I'm writing this in 2006, that's seven years ago. Seven years is a long time for computer documentation. Virtually everything in the book is so far out of date that it's useless. The authors also didn't do a very good job of staying on topic; there are many long digressions that are neither interesting nor useful. In many cases, the authors merely give a broad-strokes outline of how to accomplish a particular task, or talk about several different approaches that have been taken by different people, without concluding with anything very helpful about how to actually accomplish the task.

I have found this book almost as useful and interesting as the LaTeX Companion. I think that it gives enough information about sharing TeX and LaTeX texts on the web, but the chapters covering pdfTeX and SGML/XML applications could be more detailed.
I have found that there is another big problem - with every day coming the information tends to get older and older. I can fully recommend buying this book today, but I am not sure if I would do it once more after half a year has passed.

If you were interested in transforming TeX into PDF, I would recommend also the LaTeX Graphics Companion, or some other book introducing the problematic of PostScript and PDF.

I am an user of latex on linux for sometime now. The possibillities are uncountable with this excellent software. This book touches on the use of tex and latex for the web. Being not that experienced with all the possibillities this book is very usefull. It is a good introduction for converting latex and tex files to documents for the web. If you can grasp all the stuff in this book you will be able to easily prepare all kinds of documents for the web and in the end save a lot of time lost with programming html yourself.
Don't expect to much examples and user details, it has an excellent index and reference list to get you started.
There is a lot of math stuff in this book, so trying to get a lot of formula's on the web this will certainly be of help. I am not into math so a couple pages could be skipped.
Concluding: want to get started with latex and the web, want to make good documents for the web on a fast and good way, this is the book for you.

This book is a must-have for all designers. Expert to Novice can find information you need to make sure your project looks as good in print as it does on the screen.

This book is a solid presentation on print design principles and techniques with great examples -- it has been since Parker's first edition. The CD-ROM is falsely advertised as providing "examples, templates, tips and shareware." It has some marginal shareware and overdone advertising for Ventana, period. STRONGLY recommend keeping the older editions.

I found this book unused in one of our offices. Apparently purchased a couple of years ago. The content was good to great, many of the ideas are common knowledge to an experienced designer but it's good to have it put all together in one place.

Unfortunately the CD-ROM contained only its Windows files and all the Mac content was missing. I wonder if this is the case with all of the first printing ? This is not new to me. I have found other CD-ROMs that claim to have Mac files as well as PC files but somewhere during the production process the Mac stuff gets lost. From my studio, I produce for both platforms and find it hard to believe that more care isn't taken by some publishers.

So then, in conclusion... the book is a solid piece of work. Hopefully the cross platform clitch was fixed in the new edition.

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Having recently passed exam 70-310 I believe this book does a satisfactory job of exposing us to the basic concepts required for the exam. Unfortunately, basic concepts are not enough for 70-310. During my month of preparation, I found I had to refer to both MSDN and "Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications" (ISBN 0735619336) for more elaborate explanations and working examples (some of the Sybex sample code did not work, and no errata appeared to be available on-line).

Bottom line: if you plan to use this book to prepare for 70-310, then be prepared to supplement your studies with additional resources.

This is the third Sybex book I have purchased. The first two books I bought were for the 70-306 and 70-229 exams and they were both sufficient for those exams. Although I passed the 70-310 exam, I believe it is only because I first took the 70-306 exam which has a lot of overlap with the 70-310 exam. There were at least a half dozen questions out of 57 which were not even lightly covered in this book.

That said, I would still recommend this book as an introduction for your preparation for the 30-310 exam. The chapter on security is very well written and is superior to the same section in the 70-305/70-306 book. You will just need to cover each topic a bit more thoroughly with other materials (perhaps reading Microsoft online documentation after each topic). This is good advice for any exam since you should have a goal of thoroughly understanding each topic as well as wanting to pass the exam.

This book is concise and gets you up to speed with RoboHELP quickly. As a technical writer that is just starting out, I needed a book that would teach me enough about RoboHELP so that I could add it to my resume with confidence. This book accomplishes this task quite well.

By the end of the first chapter, I already felt confident creating projects, topics, and links. This is the core of RoboHELP.

I advise you to read several chapters before installing the demo version of RoboHELP HTML as it is timed to last only 15 days. I had almost finished the book, but the demo time had run out. I just called Blue-Sky (makers of Robohelp) and they gladly sent me another 15 day trial disk. :) Don't be afraid to ask!

Great book and highly recommended. Skip the more complex ones, you don't need it.

Just a friendly warning that this is for the old 1998 version and not the version that started shipping in 2007.

RoboHELP for Dummies does an excellent job of teaching. Whether you are just learning RoboHelp or are an experienced user, this book will certainly come in handy. I am moving up in my company and needed to learn RoboHelp fast. This book taught me everything I needed to know real fast and was straight forward. There is no useless information in this book that will cause you to get bored or confused when reading it.

This is a very good book, I have learned a lot from it.

What I like about this book is that it focuses on the W3C DOM way of developing DHTML client applications. Most other Dynamic HTML books focus too much document.write(), proprietary extensions to web standards, or server side dynamic web pages.

Having researched quite a few books on Dynamic HTML, for those of you who want to get started, this is a pretty good book to get a feel for doing the W3C way.

I have to say while I enjoyed the writing style of this book, it is a total waste of time and money. There are many better resources available to learn dhtml for free on the web. The examples in the book, if they work, are repeated throughout the text without giving new examples. And they will not validate with W3C's validators.

The author's website is a joke, the book made it sound like you could get useful information and possibly even snippets of code from the site. Again I was disapponted.

I have in the past I enjoyed the Sam's 24 hour series of books, but perhaps they should have spent an addition 24 days, or weeks, or maybe even months getting this book right.

even though I had been making personal web pages for a few years, I found this book very helpful in pointing out the difference between the browsers and giving me pointers that had some how excaped my notice. I have recommended this book for beginners that have asked me HOW TO!

Not current. Not interesting

Another fantastic follow-up book by Lemay. Keeping the same style, end of chapter reviews, and reference notes. Lemay makes this another book to reccommend to everyone 'truly' wanting to learn HTML, and break free of those clunky editors. Wheather you're planning to learn HTML for fun, profit, or to enhance your skills for your workplace, this is money well spent. I purchased this back in June of 1995, and occasionaly glance at it to refresh my memory...i.e. it still holds it's own today.

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To me this book was a complete waste of money . It is like a children book. And the writing for the HTML code was very small in size. Also this book is filled with drawings that has no objective. Please save your money and time and look for another book.

I found this book to be a great source of information on formatting my web pages with CSS, which is the main reason I bought the book. Not having much experience doing web design, this book's abundance of pictures made it easy for me to get my web page up and running in no time. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this book is priceless!

Teach Yourself VISUALLY HTML and CSS (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) First, I am a visual learner. Second, I am a senior citizen (no I will not reveal my age).I looked at the title of this book and perused the pages. I saw so many pictures, I knew this book was for me. I am a novice and decided I wanted to design a Web page and learn more about HTML. I love the way it shows steps and pictures with majority of the steps. The book was written for novice to frequent users ready to expand their knowledge. I now understand creation a web page, formatting and Table Structure. The formatting and step by step information were valuable. The ease of reading this book made it possible to apply the knowledge I learned to immediately make a Web page (OK, it did take a few hours to do this!) I have a Web page of my own! !...Thank you Mike and Linda Woooldridge

This is a pictoral showcase of Flash and DHTML designed websites. For anyone looking for inspiration, and who would rather flip through a sturdy glossy reference than search the unfiltered web, this book will prove very useful.

Not much of a "how-to" book, but it makes no claims as such. I have one, and have seen everything in it - Danielson has done much work to save you some online surfing and allow you to concentrate on creation.

I was very disappointed in this book. Based on the description and other reviews, I was expecting a simple introduction to Flash and DHTML. Instead this book is just a list of about 40 websites and a screen print from each of them. This whole book could be summed up with a list of website bookmarks in an email attachment.

I am new to using Flash, having heard about the great moving graphics you can put together using little space. Looking at this book, and going to the listed sites, I am astounded at what I could do and what I need to learn. For you newbies, just starting to tinker around with flash, this book should be helpful by showing what you can do. NOT a technical book; I'd say you can use it with a tech book - this one for style, and a tech book to show execution.

How the Web has grown! In doing so, and aiding its growth, has been the use and development of several languages. Naturally, Schafer starts with the language that birthed the Web - HTML. Actually this needs its dual ("twin") on a server, http. But Schafer discusses http in a later chapter devoted to CGI.

Hopefully, you should be able to appreciate that HTML is simple. In fact, of all that the book discusses, HTML is the simplest language. Several initial chapters walk you through HTML. It must be stressed that mastery of HTML is needed to make sense of the rest of the book.

The later languages either extend the scope of an HTML file, or they generate the file, roughly speaking. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) lets you easily factor out common definitions that are used across multiple web pages, where you can imagine that each web page corresponds to a file storing it. Schafer explains how to use CSS to simplify management of a set of HTML files. A centralised way to set common fonts and the like. More robust.

But HTML is a declarative language. Good, because laymen can more easily understand and write such languages. It's easier to say what should be done, than how to do it. But for the times when you need more expressive power on the browser, Schafer offers JavaScript. A procedural language that actually has nothing to do with Java. [The coincidence in names was a marketing ploy.]

Schafer does not ignore the server. CGI is given, as the first generation attempt at server side code. Its limitations spawned the use of Perl, PHP and Python for easier parsing of user input and generation of new dynamic pages.

Each of these languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, PHP and Python) is often the subject of its own book. No surprise then that Schafer explaining all 6 gave us a book of this length!

This is a great reference book for beginners... I myself am a seasoned systems analyst and already had books that covered most of the basic topics discussed in this book. There were no real world examples and nothing about the pitfalls of using web standards before they are even supported by popular browsers. Like I said at first, it is a really great reference book; and if you need one to get started, this is it! You will still need a book dealing with the methodology variations in coding.

This is a good book to refresh yourself on the syntax of each language, but don't try to learn web standards from this book! It spends about 10 pages in the HTML language section talking about how wonderful tables are when used to control the layout of your entire site. Anyone with any experience in HTML knows that this is a very bad idea. The Perl section had a few things wrong in the code as well. Overall, I was not impressed with this book. I probably could have gotten better tutorials for free on the internet.

This is a great introduction to XML book. It covers all of the subjects in enough detail to give a good overview, but it doesn't go into too much detail about advanced topics like some intro books do. The illustrations and examples are good for someone who is new to XML. If you are looking to learn the fundamentals of XML, this book is a good choice.

This book provided an excellent overview and introduction to the XML language. It provides a lot of good examples without relying on too many third party products. It is short enough to get through quickly, but also gives enough technical details to give readers a solid understanding of the topics. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn XML.

This is the worst technical book I have ever read. The information is wrong in places. The information is far too abbreviated in the entire book. I would not even call this a book. Being very kind, I would call this a leaflet.
Far too many fluff drawings, blank pages and repeated information. Specifically, this book advertises to have 192 pages, but only about 100 pages have relevant information; the last page number in this book is 167, which is at the end of the index. This is followed by 13 completely blank pages.
If you want a book on XML, start with "Beginning XML" by David Hunter. It has all of the details that you need to understand XML. From there, you can tackle XSL, JDBC, etc.