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Title: HTML 4 for Dummies (with CD-ROM) by Ed Tittel, Natanya Pitts, Chelsea Valentine ISBN: 0-7645-0723-0 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.95 (60 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Unusable as a quick reference
Comment: (FYI, I'm new to html, and have only about 1 year's experience with computers.)
Instead of just listing tags and showing what they do, "HTML 4 For Dummies" goes into long-winded discussions on how things work -- discussions that amount to nothing more than filler, which the reader must sort through in order to find the information he needs.
Let's say you have a problem with a link in your website. (Like I did.) You look in the table of contents in your copy of "HTML 4 For Dummies" and surprise, surprise, there's nothing on links.
Instead, you have to look in the idex, where you'll find the word "link" referenced several times -- all the way from page 10 to page 337. Which page to look at?
I don't know.
It looks to me that the only way to use this book is to read it cover-to-cover, before trying to use any of the information inside. Of course, that'll take you a couple of weeks, and by the time you've completed it, you'll have forgotten much of what you've read.
(Not to mention the fact that most of what you've read is irrelevant to you.)
Me, I've given up, after making it only to Chapter 4. While people with more experience might find the book easy to get through, I did not. The book goes from overly easy to tremendously difficult in just a few pages.
It comes with a disc. I don't understand how to use it, or what it's supposed to show me other than the Lanwright website.
I found (and continue to find) the book to be a waste of $25.
There's stuff on the internet on how to build websites that I found much more useful. Since that stuff is free, and this book is not, I suggest staying away from it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Must-Buy for Dummies
Comment: I purchased this book mostly for learning advanced HTML features such as tables and frames but at the same time I learned a couple new nifty tags. They spend a little too much time talking about the web in general as if that you're reading an Internet for Dummies book rather than an HTML for Dummies book. But don't worry, that quickly changes over to a discussion of how important HTML really is to the web and what role it plays. Everything is organized nicely and is very simple. The humor was a bit dry compared to some other dummies books I've read but overall, it's a wonderful reference material worth spending 20 bucks on.
Rating: 1
Summary: Redundant
Comment: I've bought a few dummies books through the years and the one common theme throughout them all is REDUNDANCY. They repeat the same things over and over ad nauseaum. Do your self a favor and pickup the basics (all you'll get from this book)at any number of online sites. Do a google search of Basic HTML and you'll get a lot of sites and will teach you more than this book and it's FREE! Please avoid this junk. Besides who do they think they're calling dummies? You're only a dummy if you buy there products. Just call me a reformed dummy.
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Title: Building a Web Site for Dummies by David A. Crowder, Rhonda Crowder ISBN: 0764507206 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 31 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Web Design for Dummies by Lisa Lopuck ISBN: 0764508237 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Creating Web Pages for Dummies, Sixth Edition by Bud E. Smith, Arthur Bebak, Bud Bud Smith ISBN: 0764516434 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: JavaScript for Dummies by Emily A. Vander Veer ISBN: 0764506331 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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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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