Overview
Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!
- Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.
Synopsis
Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!
- Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
- Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
- Page for page, the best content and value around.
- Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewFor years, Elizabeth Castro’s HTML Visual QuickStart Guides have been a breath of fresh air for anyone who needs to master web page construction. Her books are friendly, welcoming, and immensely usable -- and Peachpit’s clean, open series design makes them a pleasure to work with. The Sixth Edition fits the profile. It also adds coverage of some very hot topics: notably RSS feeds, podcasting, and layout for handhelds.
But then, it’s been a while since this was “only” an HTML book. Castro thoroughly covers XHTML and CSS2 style sheets, too. (Nice touch: coverage of using tables and CSS together, to get the best of both worlds.) There’s even a chapter on attracting visitors with keywords, crawler pages, and other techniques. To make the book even more useful, there are appendices on practically everything: CSS properties and values, HTML/XHTML elements, attributes, symbols, characters, tools, and more. Bill Camarda, from the September 2006 Read Only