HTML 4 For Dummies - Softcover

Tittel, Ed; James, Steve; James, Steven N.; James, Stephen N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764503316 ISBN 13: 9780764503313

Publisher: IDG Books, 1998

Synopsis

Simply put, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the magic Web authors use to create readable, attractive pages for all the world to see. At first glance, building Web pages may seem to require years of arduous training, advanced aesthetic capabilities, and hours of exhausting trial–and–error exercises. But if you can tell somebody how to drive across town to your house, you can certainly build a Web document that performs to your expectations.

HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition, shows the full range of design and technical elements you need to build good–looking, useful Web pages, and gives you the know–how and confidence to do it! This remarkable markup reference gets down to the basics about

• Coming up with a document structure
• Working with blocks of text
• Laying out lists of several kinds
• Linking to online resources
• Adding images to your page
• Setting colors and backgrounds

Taking HTML to the next level, HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition, introduces the finer points of tables, frames, forms and far more. The indispensable guide covers common tools and techniques that can extend HTML′s capabilities through

• The joy and wonder of Cascading Style Sheets
• Scripts that turn your pages into an interactive playground
• Multimedia options that serve up audio, video or animation
• Database connections that open the doors to an information treasury
• Interrelated HTML documents that add up to a full–blown Web site 

Loaded with examples, illustrations, and step–by–step instructions, HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition, can get you going or growing with your Web page–building know–how. Whether your online presence serves as a personal hobby, a greeting to the world, or a managed, professional resource on the job, this up–to–date resource is the one to rely on for all your Web adventures.

About this title

Review:

Hard-core programmers would say that HTML is for dummies. Nonetheless, those of us who'd like to build and maintain our own Web sites but cringe at the sight of anything resembling a programming language, HTML 4 for Dummies is the hand-holding guide we need to help us through.

Given that so many HTML editors are available that do all of the site-building work for you, it's strange that the authors chose to wait until Appendix C in the back of the book to explain why you need to know HTML. Still, their reasons for learning HTML are sound and the advice they dispense is solid.

Along with going through the ins and outs of HTML tags, the authors do a fine job of explaining what design elements work and how to avoid common mistakes. The section on XHTML ensures that budding site builders have all the latest tools at their disposal.

Whether your goal is to build a simple, text-oriented Web site, or one loaded with frames and graphics and animation, HTML 4 for Dummies will put you on the right track. --John Frederick Moore, amazon.com

Review:

a very useful reference tool that comes with a nice selection of programs (PC Utilities, June 2003)

About this edition

• Publisher: IDG Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0764503316
• ISBN 13: 9780764503313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 373