How-To Guide
Web Writing/Web Designing is a basic and straight to the point introduction to Web page design. It is written for a beginner approaching content development for the first time. The book is organized in a how-to handbook style that could supplement a classroom or could be a used as a self-teaching guide. The book offers practical explanations of HTML tags, Web design features, and other important needed information for creating Web pages. Batschelet manages to cover all the technical details in easy to follow language and provides step by step examples, which can be view in a supplemental Web site. When the book moves to more advanced topics such as tables and frames, the book remains simplistic and easy to follow. The explanations remain clear and the details are not compromised
Strengths: Each chapter builds upon the other and the book allows a reader, early on, the ability to begin writing HTML code. Although each chapter address a different Web creating topic, all focus on a how-to of HTML coding and all conclude with a writing assignment that utilizes the topic of instruction within each chapter. The end of each chapter also provides a thorough table of HTML tags used in the lessons and a list of outside Web sites that offers other reference material. The assigned projects of each chapter can be combined into one large project that ultimately can become the purpose of the book, a self-designed Web site.
Weaknesses: All of the weaknesses of Web Writing/Web Design are directly related to the date that the book was written. It was published in 2000 and the book is simply outdated. Also, due to the age of the book, many of the links that Batschelet provides the reader to use as further reference sites are no longer available.
Web Writing/Web Design
This is a basic get-started manual for the uninitiated, wannabe web designer. The author leads you through basic information in the text and supports it with online material as well. The activities are sequenced to build on previous ones. There are some overestimations by the author of readers' prior knowledge, but basically a recommended text for those who want to create web sites.
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This book is great. It covers all the basics of HTML. It's a must have.
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