Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours, Third Edition - Softcover

Oliver, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672313693 ISBN 13: 9780672313691

Publisher: Sams, 1998

Synopsis

Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours, Third Edition is a carefully organized tutorial that teaches the beginning Web page author just what he needs to know in order to get a Web page up in the shortest time possible. The book covers only those HTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's Web page, and is organized in a logical step-by-step order. This book is the market-leading HTML and Web publishing tutorial. Additionally, the entire book will be fully compliant with the final HTML 4 specification, and coverage of developing technologies like Cascading Style Sheets 2 (CSS2) and Dynamic HTML will be completely integrated into the main body of the text.

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Review

If you want to get up to speed with HTML 4 quickly, Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours is a great way to achieve your ambitious goal. This title sheds all extraneous material and presents a complete HTML 4 tutorial in 24 hour-long lessons.

The first four hours of study serve to bring you up to speed with a basic understanding of the Web's architecture--even if you are entirely new to Web-page design. The author introduces you to Web pages, shows you how to look at the source of any page on the Web, and explains how to publish to a Web server.

The book moves on with four chapters on presenting Web-page text and four more on implementing graphics. After laying an HTML foundation, the author discusses general Web-page design issues and introduces you to multimedia components and even Dynamic HTML--a rather advanced topic. The tutorial wraps up with chapters on presenting, managing, and promoting your Web site and offers you a peek into the future of HTML.

Throughout this book, generous language-reference tables and screen shots, as well as exercises, chapter summaries and review questions help you gauge your knowledge. This well-organised introduction impressively demystifies Web design. --Stephen W. Plain

From the Author

Over 1,200 people helped me write this book.
I didn't write this book. Well, not all of it at least. The most important parts came from readers like you. More than 1,200 of the tens of thousands of people who bought the first and second editions of this book sent me email with questions, praise, and criticism. Mostly praise, I humbly confess. But also hundreds of helpful suggestions as to where you needed that little extra hint, what went wrong when you thought you'd done it right, and which topics you wanted me to cover in more depth.

Only through the Internet could an author ever get so much invaluable, detailed feedback. I've tried to make every bit of it count. Reader feedback has influenced all the changes I made for this edition. Every sample Web page in this edition is new, and the accompanying Web site (24hourHTMLcafe.com) now contains more than 250 online examples for you to explore, modify, and reuse. The Q&A sections in each chapter answer real questions from real readers, and the Quiz and Exercise sections reinforce exactly those points with which readers needed the most help. I've reorganized and rewritten many of the lessons to make them even easier to follow, and presented the information you most urgently need earlier in the book.

Best of all, this edition includes completely new coverage of cutting-edge topics like Dynamic HTML, using JavaScript to add up forms and create interactive animation, and making your pages appear most prominently on all the major Internet search sites. And these more advanced topics are presented in the same good-humored, plain-English, beginner-friendly style that made earlier editions of this book nonstop bestsellers.

Jim Seymour, editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, called the first edition, "The best of many introductions I've seen," and readers tell me they agree.

Please let me know what you think of the book and how you'd like me to make the next edition even better still!

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0672313693
• ISBN 13: 9780672313691
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504