Learn HTML in a Weekend (In a Weekend S.) - Softcover

Callihan, S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761526943 ISBN 13: 9780761526940

Publisher: Prima Tech, 2000

Synopsis

This updated edition features all new HTML tutorials and revised information on using graphics tools such as Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop LE, GIF Construction Set Professional, and Mapedit to enhance your Web site. Through a series of graduated tutorials, you'll quickly learn to create basic to intermediate Web pages. Then follow the optional tutorials of your choice to create frames, forms, image maps, GIF animations, and graphics special effects using software tools included on the CD-ROM. This one- stop reference covers everything you need to know to create and publish effective, attention- getting Web pages using HTML, XML, and XHTML.

About this title

Review

Learn HTML In a Weekend is one of three crash-course books by Steven E Callihan, the others being Create Your First Web Page In a Weekend and Create Your First Mac Web Page In a Weekend. In this one, the emphasis is firmly on learning the nuts and bolts of HTML.

The book is set out as seven lessons that keen readers can complete over a weekend, although the author does keep saying that you can work through them at your own pace. On Friday night you do some background reading, and beginners may be sufficiently daunted to abandon the course--there's a lot more detail than you really need. Saturday morning and afternoon are dedicated to learning HTML tags and attributes. On Saturday evening you tackle tables, and Sunday is given over to frames, forms and graphics. At first everything is coded by hand, but on the second day you use shareware programs from the included CD-ROM.

Learn HTML In a Weekend would be ideal for students who've bunked off an entire term's lectures and now need to cram for their exams. People with a more casual interest in HTML should be aware that Callihan's focus is quite narrow. He covers tags that few, if any, Web browsers support, but there's next to nothing on design. Still, if you keep your head down, you will learn HTML in a weekend. --Mary Lojkine

Synopsis

This work seeks to provide a one-stop resource for readers interested in creating Web pages with HTML. Together with its companion website it provides the information required to publish effective, attractive and well organized Web pages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prima Tech
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761526943
• ISBN 13: 9780761526940
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 429