Product Description

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages assumes that readers are true beginners - no prior Web page experience is necessary!

This hands-on tutorial teaches readers the fundamentals of creating Web pages, along with more advanced ideas like message areas, chat, and e-commerce options to make the page look like it was created by a professional. The book begins by explaining the need for HTML and the basics of good Web page design. It then covers using HTML tags and tools, formatting text, adding images, and building links. Later chapters demonstrate how to add features to Web pages including tables, colors, frames, multimedia content, JavaScript, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. The author has also included several hundred pages of useful additional information, perfect for the beginning Web designer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #644884 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages assumes that readers are true beginners - no prior Web page experience is necessary!

This hands-on tutorial teaches readers the fundamentals of creating Web pages, along with more advanced ideas like message areas, chat, and e-commerce options to make the page look like it was created by a professional. The book begins by explaining the need for HTML and the basics of good Web page design. It then covers using HTML tags and tools, formatting text, adding images, and building links. Later chapters demonstrate how to add features to Web pages including tables, colors, frames, multimedia content, JavaScript, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. The author has also included several hundred pages of useful additional information, perfect for the beginning Web designer.

About the Author

Todd Stauffer is the author or co-author of more than 25 computing books, including HTML Web Publishing 6-in-1, HTML by Example with Ann Navarro, and Creating Your Own AOL Web Page with Andy Shafran. Stauffer has written for a number of magazines, including Publish magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter, Working Woman, and MacAddict.

Todd has worked as an advertising writer, technical writer, and magazine editor, all in consumer-oriented computing. Outside of computing, he's also a humor columnist and a travel/automotive writer. You can reach him via his Web site, at http://www.mac-upgrade.com.

Customer Reviews

Misleading packaging
Long story short: after getting this book I am still an absolute beginner. I bought MS Frontpage a few months ago and needed something to help me to get my first web site going without having to become an expert in web design or rocket science. I suppose you could call me an absolute beginner.

The problem is: this book is about authoring web sites using CODE. Text editors. Like programmers do. I am not a programmer or an engineer or anything like that. I am an absolute beginner. Let me tell you this - absolute beginners DO NOT USE code. They use wysiwig programmes. That is what defines us - we cannot use code (yet) because we are absolute beginners. That is what defines us. If we were at the level of graduating to code, we would not be absolute beginners anymore.

This is possibly a brilliant book, but I will never know it because I cannot even understand the introduction.

I feel that I have been misled. This book is not what it claims. It is NOT an "Absolute beginner's guide". The cover further states "No prior web publishing experience necessary!" This is bull. (Luckily, I also bought David Karlins' EXCELLENT book "Build your own web site", which helped me tremendously and thanks to which I now have a very nice web site, thank you very much). Karlins' book also makes no outrageous claims on the cover, but gives simple tips and instructions which even a fool - sorry, I meant to say absolute beginner - like me has no problems following.

I object to misleading advertising and packaging. I fell for this one. They could easily have indicated on the cover that this book is NOT for beginners and covers only code, but they chose not to. This book is not what it claims to be. Stay away.