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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition,...
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by Laura Lemay and Denise Tyler
Sales Rank: 1276879
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Hardcover: 1200 pages
Publisher: Sams; 2nd edition February 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672318385
ISBN-13: 978-0672318382
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.7 x 2.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
Product Review
Part of the Teach Yourself series, this book puts all of the foundational knowledge you need to build Web sites into one large volume, along with a solid explanation of the code and design principles involved. Experienced author Laura Lemay packs a tremendous amount of instruction into this massive title.
The first week of instruction covers the basics of the Web; introduces HTML; and presents simple text formatting, links, and image display. Since this book focuses on product-independent HTML 4 coding rather than instruction on a particular Web-design application, the skills you acquire will be applicable in any tool. In the next seven days of instruction, the author teaches you about style sheets, frames, tables, and the use of multimedia elements. Throughout these discussions, she presents each topic in the context of real-world application and page design.
In the final week, Lemay takes you beyond the basics and into the world of Java, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting, and dynamic HTML (DHTML), including discussions of the differences between Netscape and Microsoft implementations. She finishes the book off with several chapters on effective design, site publishing and promotion, and server administration. A companion CD-ROM includes demo and trial versions of tons of authoring tools and clip media. --Stephen W. Plain
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition is a completely revised version of the expanded, hardcover edition of the best-selling book that started the whole HTML/Web publishing phenomenon. The Professional Reference Edition of the book includes seven additional chapters covering Web page scripting, CGI and Perl, Java, and Web server setup and administration, in addition to an expanded 250-page reference section.
Customer Reviews & Comments
You may be an HTML beginner when you pick up Laura Lemay's best-selling book, but at the end of the 21 days you won't be a beginner anymore. This second edition is a major upgrade, 400 pages larger than its predecessor, and updated to cover the latest and greatest in W3C specifications including Cascading Style Sheets and the red-hot dialect called XHTML. Veteran users will welcome the fact that this new release contains more topics: about deprecated tags, working with sound and video files, using Java, and introductions to writing JavaScript scripts and CGI scripting. New users will appreciate the easy-to-follow format and the teaching strategy known as 'micro-uniting'. You'll learn everything in bite-sized chunks, not to much to choke you into unconsciousness, but just the right amount to satisfy your curiosity and appetite. In a mere 21 days -- about the time it takes me to begin my preliminary procrastination -- you'll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking web site. This book is an entire reference library in one volume: everything you need is here. Each "day" of the 21 days contains three chapters. Each chapter covers a specific theme -- such as creating links, animated graphics, tables, frames, multimedia, and so much more. You'll also learn how to spice up your pages with Dynamic HTML; how to put your site online; and how to promote and maintain your site. When I looked at the CD that accompanies the book, I rubbed my eyes to see if it were true. You get a library of photographic images that you can use for free; and trial versions of the biggest names in web-related software. There's not enough space to name everything here, but just to whet your appetite, how about Dreamweaver, GoLive, Homesite, BBEdit Lite, HotDog, Photoshop 5.5, Fireworks, PaintShop Pro -- and the list goes on. XHTML is hotter than Pokemon, and all the latest information about XHTML is carefully explained. The book answered all my questions about this child of HTML and XML: it clearly described how to transform my HTML documents into XHTML. For anyone interested in publishing ebooks, this is essential knowledge, since XHTML has been chosen as the standardizing format for this brave new publishing world. Web site making these days is much more complex than it was when all you had to know were a few dozen tags of HTML 2.0. Lemay's book, with it's relaxed conversational style, is the perfect tutor for every beginning-level to intermediate-level user. If you like to understand the things you read, then -- like me -- you will thoroughly enjoy working with this book. Michael Pastore, Editor
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