Editorial Reviews:
Are you fascinated by the look and design of Web pages? Do you wish that you had the knowledge and skills to create a great looking Web site? Whether you?re an up-and-coming Web designer or just an enthusiastic hobbyist, you are probably using HTML, the standard authoring language for the Internet. HTML 4 For Dummies, now in its 5th edition, will show you the basics of working with this language as well as advanced skills for all-around knowledge. HTML is used to create Web documents. As a standard issued by the World Wide Web Consortium, it is used by almost everyone to create and edit Web pages. HTML is capable of: - Creating a Web site
- Inserting designs to a Web page
- Running on both PCs and Macs
The new edition of HTML 4 For Dummies contains nearly 50% more content than its previous editions, and covers a wide range of material, including: Planning a Web site to avoid underperformance - Creating and viewing a Web page
- Working with text, tables, lists, and links
- Adding style to your page with images, colors, and fonts
- Managing layout
- Controlling positioning and appearance using CSS
- Integrating scripts with HTML
- Designing an eBay auction page
- Helpful advices and tips, as well as warnings about pitfalls
Complete with a 6-page tear-out colored reference sheet, HTML 4 For Dummies is the most comprehensive HTML guide yet. Written by a computer expert and author of over 120 books, including the previous editions of the bestselling HTML 4 For Dummies, this straightforward, fun guide will aid you through making and editing beautiful Web pages.
This guide walks you through the entire Web authoring process, teaching you how to use the nuts and bolts of HTML to build your Web page. You've got to feel good about a guide that tells you that "if you can dial a telephone or find your keys in the morning, you too can become an HTML author." The authors start with the premise that you're a true beginner. The first part of the book covers the history of the Web, what a browser is, how HTML is used, and what it takes to access the Web. The book then dives into HTML basics, page layout, and instructions on how to build your first basic Web page. Part 2 explains what a markup language is and how HTML works. This section provides an overview of each HTML tag, highlights special characters, and shows you how to add templates, lists, and links to your Web pages. Part 3 covers relatively advanced areas such as tables, attractive Web design, complex pages, forms, style sheets, image maps, navigation aids, and finally going live with your site. Part 4 contains the famous "Part of Tens" section that is in each Dummies book, plus HTML's Top Ten Do's and Don'ts, Ten Design Desiderata, and Nearly Ten Ways to Exterminate Web Bugs. Extras on the CD-ROM include overviews on testing your pages, working with Dynamic HTML, frames, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and more. The CD-ROM also has shareware and examples of HTML that are used in the book. --Elizabeth Lewis
Customer Reviews:
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 HTML 4 for Dummies
I found this item to be informative, easy to follow and well worth the price that I paid for it. The book arrived when I expected it.
I would recommend this book, as a starting point, to anyone who is interested in learning HTML.  Excellent book for a purest
I am a big fan of the "For Dummies" series and this book is no exception. The information in this book is best for someone who wants to create a web page literally from scratch and understand the basic tenants behind html. Those interested in creating a professional looking web page quickly should skip this book and refer to "Creating Web Pages for Dummies" which helps navigate the plethora of tools available for web page designers.
This book serves as an exceptional guide and as a reference.  HTML 4 For Dummies
Dummies books are quite valuable in their variety of topic choice, and knowledge base. This book is good, and an easy read when used as a reference base. HTML is not for everyone, but is certainly of interest to those of us who venture into constructing web pages.
Perfect!!
Thats the book that everybody should read before starting building web pages!! Simple english and easy examples.... As the title... FOR DUMMIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I suggest this book to everybody!!! A good place to start but ONLY for beginers!
I am very computer literate, but knew nothing about HTML. I bought this book to create a web site, and a week later I had a web site running.
If you know HTML, or have already created a web ste before, then don't buy this book. If you have never done any HTML work, then the book is great. It really is a beginers guide, and at that it does a great job. As a reference forget it, and don't buy it if you want to fine tune or tone up your HTML skills.
One major gripe. The Chapter on Frames is just sooooo wrong, that I recommend you don't even read it. I originally built my first site with frames, and then had to dump it and start over. More Customer Reviews:
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