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HTML Goodies (2nd Edition) (Goodies)
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by Joe Burns
Sales Rank: 306372
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Discount: 34 %
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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Que; 2 edition October 19, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789726114
ISBN-13: 978-0789726117
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
Product Review
HTML Goodies deserves a place in the ranks of the best Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) books on the market. Not only does Author Joe Burns teach readers how to use HTML (and in such a wonderfully friendly way), he also explains how to create stylish, efficient Web documents that will keep surfers coming back.
Burns has structured the book into a series of brief tutorials, each of which tackles a particular technical challenge that might confront a Webmaster. One chapter explains image maps, another goes into depth on frames, while others explain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Java applets. The tutorials consist of a series of experiments--this code yields this result--interspersed with questions and answers. Where it's appropriate, Burns suggests techniques he's found effective in a variety of situations. You'll be astounded by what you can learn from his advice.
HTML Goodies sprang from Burns's Web site of the same name, a popular one with lots of tutorials and downloadable freebies. It features discussions about Web page development, and Burns is always a frequent contributor. The site does a superb job of standing in for the CD-ROM that this book lacks--the site's a better deal, since it's more current and allows interactivity. --David Wall
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
HTML Goodies, Second Edition is based on the most popular tutorials at HTMLGoodies.com. It starts with a series of short primers teaching the basics of building Web pages, then continues with detailed tutorials coveringLinkingAdding imagesUsing Tables and FramesWorking with Style Sheets
Later chapters move beyond HTML, demonstrating how to add sound or video, JavaScript and CGI programming to Web pages. The book finishes with a series of useful appendices you can refer to for quick reference.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is certainly a very useful text you can use to teach yourself HTML programming code, but you can probably do better. That do-it-yourself focus is the true advantage of this book, as it's presented as a series of tutorials that are tied in to Burns' equally useful website (also called "HTML Goodies"), although the constant references to that site get dangerously close to advertising territory. You can disregard some of the reviews here by "experts" who complain about the low level of intellectualism in this book, because experts are clearly not the intended audience. Before this book I considered myself somewhere between beginner and intermediate, knowing some HTML basics, and the book has really filled out the gaps in my knowledge to the point where I'm sure I can now design a fully functional website. But aside from the strong educational aspects of this guide, the problem is Burns' writing and presentation. This guide is quite poorly edited with regular typos, even in some of the specific code examples that are used to demonstrate real programming language. Meanwhile, some concepts occasionally pop up that are not related to their surroundings and are clearly out of order. Examples include the section "What About That ? Mark?" on page 221, and a badly confused section on the pros and cons of frames to close out chapter 6. Burns often tells you to "recall" concepts that are first described later in the book - references to JavaScript commands are recurring examples of this problem. Since Burns is a self-taught HTML guru from the early days of the World Wide Web, he admits that he disdains recent programming developments, and flat out refuses to elaborate on new code possibilities that are clearly easier and more useful than his methods. He spends distracting amounts of time describing tangential software packages (such as CGI shareware or photo editors) that are merely the ones he uses. And throughout the book you are subjected to Burns' awful jokes. He's a good teacher but he sure ain't a comedian. The effectiveness of this book in helping beginners and intermediates to help themselves mostly merits five stars, but the flawed presentation brings my rating back down to the "average" level.
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