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Title: XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook: The Next Generation HTML by Ian S. Graham ISBN: 0471374857 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58
Rating: 5
Summary: A comprehensive, lucid reference book & tutorial.
Comment: XHTML 1.0 Language And Design Sourcebook -- The Next Generation HTML Ian S. Graham John Wiley & Sons, 2000 ISBN: 0-471-37485-7 Paperback, 692 pages, ...XHTML 1.0 Language And Design Sourcebook -- The Next Generation HTML is an extraordinary book. Before I explain 'why' it may be necessary to explain 'what': What is XHTML?
Some months ago, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) replaced the HTML language with a more complex, subtle, precise, and powerful language called XHTML. In January of this year, another acronymic body, the OEB, selected XHTML to become the standard language for the world of publishing ebooks. XHTML works optimally with the new language called Cascading Style Sheets (or 'Style Sheets' for short, or 'CSS' for shorter), which not only yields handsome formatting features, but also allows designers to make instant updates throughout the website by simple changes via one master document.
HTML was relatively easy to learn and use, so why the change? ... XHTML documents are easily convertible to an influential language called XML. And XHTML documents will be readable by the plethora of new browsers: Braille, text-to-speech, TV browsers, browsers for PDAs, cell phone browsers, and more to come. While these benefits are appealing, they are useful only to those of us who become fluent in the new languages. Learning these new languages is the problem, and the solution is Graham's new book, devoted to the details of XHTML and CSS.
Let us return to our sheets. Aristotle, the great Greek Philosopher, once explained his literary method: "Think like a philosopher and speak like a common man." Throughout this work, Graham tackles all the intricacies of XHTML and CSS with this same kind of intelligent prose. The very first pages of the book's introduction, which describes the six components of the Internet, made me understand -- deeply understand for the first time -- the structure of the whole Internet. Each succeeding chapter confirmed this first impression: as a technical writer, Graham is a genius. He illustrates how each part fits snugly into a greater whole; he anticipates every one of his readers' questions; and he explains how things work -- the easy, the uneasy, and everything in between -- with a style that is patient, vivid, easy to follow, brilliantly clear.
Graham begins by exploring markup languages in general, then gives the best explanation that I have read anywhere about how to convert HTML documents to XHTML. The chapters that follow delve into CSS details, progressively moving from the simpler topics to ones which are more complex. After thorough lessons in the how-to basics about all the essential CSS features, the book concludes with advanced Style Sheet tools, scripting, XHTML handled as XML, and a whole chapter containing all the elements and attributes in the latest specifications of XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01.
There's no CD-ROM with the book, but there's something even better: a companion website... which can be downloaded in less than five minutes. The site provides updates to the book, and codes for many of the book's examples.
Beginners and expert users will find here, in one book, everything they need to immediately begin writing simple and complex documents in XHTML and CSS. Clearly, as a comprehensive reference book as well as a lucid tutorial about the hottest Web topics in town, XHTML 1.0 LANGUAGE AND DESIGN SOURCEBOOK is headed straight for the computer bestseller lists, and for all the right reasons. We eagerly await the book's companion volume, The XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook, scheduled for release during this Summer, 2000.
Michael Pastore, Reviewer
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific Resource
Comment: This is a really good book for Web developers who really need to know the ins and outs of HTML (XHTML) and CSS--the book really does cover it all. Although I've been doing Web page design for some time, I actually learned a fair bit that I "thought" I knew, but didn't--and I am only part way through. In particular, the index is really good--I spend a lot of time trying to look things up and this one really helps.
Rating: 5
Summary: The ULTIMATE XHTML Referece book!!
Comment: Hey,
I read this book cover to cover, and learned a lot more about HTML and XHTML than ever before. This book is VERY technical and while it may not be that helpful to the novice, it is invaluable to intermediat - advanced/expert users. ***** A five star resou rce book! *****
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Title: Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 073571245X Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 28 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference by Ray West, Tom Muck, Tom Allen ISBN: 0072130172 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 07 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Designing CSS Web Pages by Christopher Schmitt ISBN: 0735712638 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 1565926226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition by Elizabeth Castro ISBN: 0321130073 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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