Product Description

• Now featuring more than 250 color illustrations throughout, this perennially popular guide is a must for novices who want to work with HTML or XHTML, which continue to be the foundation for any Web site
• The new edition features nearly 50 percent new and updated content, including expanded coverage of CSS and scripting, new coverage of syndication and podcasting, and new sample HTML projects, including a personal Web page, an eBay auction page, a company Web site, and an online product catalog
• The companion Web site features an eight–page expanded Cheat Sheet with ready–reference information on commands, syntax, colors, CSS elements, and more
• Covers planning a Web site, formatting Web pages, using CSS, getting creative with colors and fonts, managing layouts, and integrating scripts

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33326 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover
Packed with useful tips, techniques, and code examples

Build quality Web pages with XHTML and add some pizzazz with CSS

You don′t have to be a master programmer to build great Web pages! This book shows you what HTML is about and how to use XHTML to format great–looking pages. Then you′ll see how CSS helps you manipulate colors, fonts, and more. You can even add scripting languages and build interactive pages — here′s how!

Discover how to:

• Plan your Web site to prevent problems

• Use the proper syntax for HTML and XHTML

• Build a company Web site

• Upload and publish Web pages

• Integrate scripts with XHTML

• Test and debug your Web pages

About the Author
Ed Tittel is a full–time independent writer, trainer, and consultant who works out of his home near beautiful Austin, Texas. Ed has been writing for the trade press since 1986 and has worked on more than 140 books. In addition to this title, Ed has worked on more than 35 books for Wiley, including Windows Server 2008 For Dummies, XML For Dummies, and Networking with NetWare For Dummies.
Ed is a Contributing Editor at Tomshardware.com, writes for half–a–dozen different TechTarget.com Web sites, including WhatIs.com, SearchNetworking. com, and SearchWindows.com, and also writes occasionally for other Web sites and magazines. When he’s not busy doing all that work stuff, Ed likes to travel, shoot pool, spend time with his family (especially taking walks with young Gregory), and turn the tables on his Mom, who now makes her home with the rest of the Texas Tittels.

Jeff Noble runs a small Web design and multimedia company called Conquest Media (www.conquestmedia.com) in Austin, Texas. Jeff has been working on, in, and around the Web for nearly 10 years, and he specializes in designing and creating unique, easy to use, functional Web sites. When he’s away from his computer, Jeff is often far from the madding crowd, choosing instead to hike and camp in wild places as far away from a wall socket as he can get.

Customer Reviews

HTML, XHTML & CSS
To begin with I should state that I am already fairly comfortable with HTML and CSS. I have been writing bespoke PHP sites since 2000. I recently found my HTML to be a little (how do I say) scruffy, and wanted an offline reference manual to describe step-by-step some of the overall concepts of HTML, XHTML and CSS, so that I could get back to some of the good habits I know I should be adhering to.
This book is well written and very pretty to read. Sometimes the coloured markup of code can be more distracting than it is useful, but it beats having to see the effects of various CSS techniques without having to do them yourself. It is structured in as much as it assumes you know nothing about HTML or the construction of websites/pages at all, and builds up to topics such as browser interpretations of CSS and Ecommerce. The line between HTML and XHTML I found to be very grey and not very well discussed within the book. Also I found some of the example code given to be 'dumps' rather than inline expalinations which I think would have helped to clear up some of the overall complexity in some of the code.
For me it's a little too simplistic. I skipped through over 2/3 of the book before finding anything that really deserved being read, and even then it was a little too superficial. I'm now looking at products like "CSS & XHTML: The Complete Reference" and "HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies" to get me writing tidier code and better UIs.
I guess what I'm saying is, if your a beginner this is as-good-a reference point to start as any other; if you're already versed in HTML and understand what it means to FTP your site code to a server then their are other resources that might better suit your requirements.

good detailed html guide
this product provides the basic understanding of html scripting
it is very detailed and very easy to understand
great product!!!