With This Book And A Week You Can Build A Site
Without knowing any xHTML, but with some HTML background I was able to put together a full xHTML-strict compliant site. A good reference book as well as a teaching book.
Best book on XHTML around!
Best book on XHTML around!
A very good XHTML reference and learning tool
I do website development and I found this book to be very helpful, both as a reference and as a learning tool for mastering this new version of the web page markup language. XHTML is pretty much the same as HTML except for a few syntactical changes, but its biggest innovation is XHTML's extensive use of cascading style sheets, which are a great advancement in web page markup in allowing much greater control over page design and management (change just one master style sheet and you can change the formatting of all pages that use the sheet). This book provides many examples of style sheets in action. Soon after reading a few chapters you will be incorporating some of them in your own webpages.This work is filled with many examples that illustrate the sections in the book (all of the examples are downloadable for free from the author's website). It helps a great deal to see and experiment with actual examples that use the markup techniques the author discusses. This work is logically presented and clearly written, which is surely a virtue in technical books. The excellent job that the author did with this work makes me want to read the companion book, the Web Development Sourcebook. I would recommend this work to anyone who does website development or who wants to begin learning it.
Great resource, poor book binding
This is the only book on XHTML/HTML I've looked at in much detail, so I've no basis for comparison. However, this book is packed with very useful information on the tags, attributes, and CSS properties. The examples are good and are nearly always provided with screenshots of the renderings in one or more browsers. Contains a good summary of CSS support by the major browsers.My biggest complaint is that this book is rapidly falling apart! It is not from overuse. I have other paperback reference books that are older which I refer to more frequently that are fine. The binding on this one is failing fast.
The ULTIMATE XHTML Referece book!!
Hey,I read this book cover to cover, and learned a lot more about HTML and XHTML than ever before. This book is VERY technical and while it may not be that helpful to the novice, it is invaluable to intermediat - advanced/expert users. ***** A five star resou rce book! *****
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