Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML &XHTML in 21 Days, 4th edition
Bought as a college text book requirement,yet it really is excellent for helping you learn how to create and design your own web pages
The Mother of all HTML books
Very well written, even if you know nothing about HTML (like me). If you want to know the nuts & bolts of writing HTML code by hand, this book is exactly what you're looking for. Don't feel bad if you take a little more than 21 days, there's a lot of information in there! However, if you're more interested in learning the intricacies of an HTML editor, such as Frontpage or Hotdog, this book would probably be overkill.
Great book for College Course
I chose this book as the text for a college HTML course. I have used 3 other books and have found this one to be great. It covers all the basic tags, and has several great sections on CSS and how to use it for page layout and text formatting.
Students have commented on how they like it. This summer the course was fully online.
I would reccommend it for anyone wanting to learn HTML and a bit more.
This is a good book!
I like this one.. why?praise:
1)you dont have to be in front of your pc to learn html from this book
2)handy dandy reference section!
3)covers all the basics adequately
4)gives appropriate stylistic advice. who cares if you can script if your web page is plain old ugly and unreadable?
5)puts things in a good chronological order
6)I learned to code from this book; its pages are bent from my continual re-referencing!
7)I like the Idea that there is a series. when I feel like I have time to learn c# or .net I can continue with a familiar source.
complaints:
1)index could be broader!
2)sometimes when I am looking for a specific bit of code it takes me a long time to find it. This book needs more headings.
If it had a broader index, more headings, and raw info in the margins for quick refrence it would be perfect.
THE book to get to learn HTML!
If you wish to learn HTML, this is the book to get! It is funny, comprehensive, and an easy read.I used this book and a simple ASCII editor to create the Lifeboat Foundation web site. This book made a fairly complicated task a breeze!
A good follow-up book is "Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference" by O'Reilly.
