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A full-color introduction to the basics of HTML and CSS from the publishers of Wrox!

Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or e-commerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and only written for those who want to become programmers, which is why this book takes an entirely new approach.

Introduces HTML and CSS in a way that makes them accessible to everyone―hobbyists, students, and professionals―and it’s full-color throughoutUtilizes information graphics and lifestyle photography to explain the topics in a simple way that is engagingBoasts a unique structure that allows you to progress through the chapters from beginning to end or just dip into topics of particular interest at your leisure

This educational book is one that you will enjoy picking up, reading, then referring back to. It will make you wish other technical topics were presented in such a simple, attractive and engaging way!

This book is also available as part of a set in hardcover - Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, 9781119038634; and in softcover - Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, 9781118907443.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons; First Edition (November 8, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 490 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118008189
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118008188
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
Reviewer: GDR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome guide for a beginner
Review: When I first mentioned to a computer scientist friend that I bought a book to learn HTML, his response was "why would you use a book?" The fact of the matter is that while the material of any non-fiction piece can be found via the internet, the knowledge of HTML is particularly accessible; as of my writing this a Google search of "HTML tutorial" generated over 300 million hits. With websites devoted to the subject like w3schools.com and htmldog.com why should you buy a book? This is the most general question to answer. The benefit of this book is that it is very well written, organized, and easy to follow; this is where a book can do better than the internet. That begin said, this book is truly for beginners - it assumes you know nothing about HTML or mark-up language structure. The book is divided into two halves: one html (structure) and the other CSS (formatting). The first chapter is devoted to basic text pages. Then the following chapters describe the basic elements of which most web pages are composed: lists, links, images, and tables. The second half covers how to make these elements pretty. There are two major benefits from this book in terms of content. First, there are many little external references that can help you find what you need; for example, [...] is listed as one way to crop pictures (granted I usually do this in iphoto). Secondly, while the text does not teach you everything, it gives you an idea what to Google to learn more. The text gives you a broad overview of the main topics and once you understand the buzzwords you can dig deeper. One aspect of website design is to make something look good. This book looks really good. All of the diagrams are extremely clear and ample whitespace is used to create a nice flow. At the beginning, Mr. Duckett outlines the color-coding he will use for each type of page (i.e. title, summary, etc..) to help guide the reader. The choices make the pages stand out even when the only feature of the page type is a background color. He also spends time in some of the chapters discussing artistic features such as contrast and why to use png versus jpg format for images. These additions add a useful aspect to a book that really could just be about coding. I also think style is extremely important to keep in mind when making a website. Overall I think this book is a good starting point if you want to make a website with little to no knowledge of coding languages. It is extremely well organized and clear. Furthermore, I used to as a starting point for my own website. However, I can see how someone would instead use the free resources available online. I have frequently consulted these myself for more detail.

Reviewer: TriLiCiT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I know how to build websites due to this book
Review: This book is absolutely phenomenal. I know as of 2024; it is a bit dated (in the computer world) but let me tell you. If you're wanting to learn the core of web development along with all the code working behind the scenes, and, not rely on a CMS like WordPress, THIS IS YOUR BOOK. The coloring aspect and how the book is laid out in the various colors makes it very easy to understand. I've been building/maintaining sites now for about 3 years and every now n then, I will come back to this book for reference hence why I have bought it again.

Reviewer: Jessica Hillis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to understand
Review: This book helped me understand and get my class done.

Reviewer: Kevin
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Must-have book
Review: My background: I wanted to set out to learn how to build websites, I wanted to start simple with static websites made entirely of HTML and CSS and then move on to more dynamic websites with javascript and php. In my journey so far I picked up O'reily's head first with HTML first, and this was an excellent primer for me. I also checked out about 3 other books on HTML and CSS. I think O'reily's was wordier but it certainly covered everything, but enough about O'reily's. HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites is an excellent book, it's very well styled, well written and for the most part explains everything well. It's an excellent book for beginners and possibly also a good book for some intermediate website developers. Where I feel the book falls short is in two areas: 1) the explanation for just about everything is given the same weight 2) The code examples on their websites are not easily accessible. Let me clarify #2 first since it's fairly simple: For example, the chapter on layout has a beautiful website that you get to design, all of the code is in the book and you can of course access the code online by looking at the page source, but wouldn't it have been a lot simpler if they simply made a zip file for their users to download? That way the hierarchical structure is kept, but also then all of the images are there too. I was unable to get all of the images and so I simply cannot recreate their example offline, a real shame considering it's essentially the finale of the whole book, a culmination of everything learned wrapped into one beautiful example, unfortunately not to be recreated by the reader of the book in its entirety.Now to my first gripe. Although it's nice that they went into equal nice amounts of detail on everything covered in the book, certain topics should have simply been given more weight because of their importance and complexity. For instance, floats should probably have more detail and information about them than say, how to adjust the line-height. Of course the line-height should still be discussed but it should have some space in the book taken from it and given to floats. I could go on and on, but very simply the more complex areas should be given more weight. This isn't to say that they leave you hanging completely, they do discuss floats, just not enough in my opinion. In addition, things like "clearfix" should be discussed more, and a few other topics.Ultimately these two things are why I gave the review 4 stars, which in my mind is still pretty good, because this book is pretty good and still worth getting. If you're on a journey to teach yourself how to build websites, this book should be in your arsenal along with O'reily's head first HTML.

Reviewer: Prof Dr Mine Dogantan-Dack
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Well structured book. Plenty of exercises. Demonstrates clearly the relationship between HTML and CSS. You need to keep your wits about you to follow the code line by line to really understand what the author is teaching. But that's the point, of course! Pasting the exercises from the website into a text editor (I use Sublime Text) and trying out the results in various browsers then modifying them to get to know the code from the inside is incredibly helpful. The book is clearly written, visually attractive and nicely produced.

Reviewer: Ajita Gupta
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Shiny and informative. Covers all CSS properties and HTML tags with visually appealing simple explanations. Bought it immediately.

Reviewer: Carson Fujita
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A very good reference. It's got everything you need to get started and it does it visually and well. I saw this in the store. My dad bought one, I bought one. You should too

Reviewer: Cliente Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ottimo testo per chi si approccia alla programmazione web. Io ho deciso di prenderlo in inglese ma spiega veramente tutto bene e con esempi pratici oltre ad avere pagine con un layout intuitivo. Sicuramente consigliato.

Reviewer: Jessica H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Llegó un poco maltratado pero el contenido es muy bueno y gráfico.Es un buen libro para los que estamos iniciando en el mundo de HTML.