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HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition [Paperback]

Ed Tittel (Author), Natanya Pitts (Author)

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.; 4th Edition edition (Jan 24 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764519956
ISBN-13: 978-0764519956
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 794 g

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,674,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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HTML 4 for Dummies provides an introduction to Web publishing, but it contains less information than it should. If you don't know HTML at all, you'll be able to extract some worthwhile information from these pages. But if you're at all familiar with HTML and want this book to bring you up to speed on what's new in the HTML 4 specification, you'll be disappointed.

The book presents a super-simple "Hello, World" HTML document that illustrates the most basic structure of an HTML document. The authors then spend 100 pages flailing around with confusing discussions of organization and graphic design. (Sample sentence: "The Web is both a cooperative and a competitive environment; it depends on interdependence, but it's impatient with boredom.") Eventually, they get back to the information about tags that the intended audience needs--and they do a good job of explaining how to build headers, images, links, tables, and frames with HTML code. But the coverage would be better if they had included more illustrations of what the tags do. The discussion of cascading style sheets (CSS) is feeble, and there's no DHTML (dynamic HTML) code in evidence at all.

Your best bet is to look for a better HTML 4 text for beginners. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is a good choice, as is HTML 4 Bible. --David Wall --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Redundant, Jan 12 2004

J. Horrell "rockcrawler" (Winston-Salem, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition (Paperback)

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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1.0 out of 5 stars Aweful, Oct 9 2003

David Hicken (Thousand Oaks, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition (Paperback)

What a load of crap. These two authors have no business writing a book and whoever decided to publish it is a moron. It's all over the place with no real order to it and says absolutely nothing. Don't waste your money.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This is the most useless HTML book I have seen, Aug 5 2003

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This review is from: HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition (Paperback)

I love HTML and I've got lots of books about it at home. So far as I am concerned, this is the worst. There's at least half of the content that could be demolished. It kept saying things over and over again and that space would at least take 1/5 of the whole book.

It didn't explain HTML properly (which is the most basic thing), it doesn't much helps beginners nor experts. this is really a FOUL book. There's HEAPS of other books with this prize better than this book ten times!

Remember: If you're planning to learn or improve your HTML, do NOT buy this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The only way to get started by yourself
I hate to say that this whole leave-a-review thing on Amazon[.com] is a total waste of time, but I have a high suspicion that many of the people leaving "wisdom" have ulterior... Read more

Published on Dec 29 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Satisfactory job of explaining HTML language to new user
This book could have been about 200 pages shorter if they left out the redundant info on content and style of content. Read more

Published on Nov 14 2002 by R. Geissman

3.0 out of 5 stars First let me be absolutely clear...
... I HATE DUMMIES BOOKS.

All dummies books. I think it's insulting and arrogant to place the reader in the position of claiming to be stupid in order to obtain information... Read more

Published on July 4 2002 by R. Tiedemann

1.0 out of 5 stars HTML 4 for people who love stupid jokes and useless filler.
When I bought this book, I was under the impression that it would teach the HTML language. Thats ALL of the HTML language. Read more

Published on Jan 17 2002 by freaknasty1092

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide for Beginners
I found this to be an excellent way to learn HTML. What most people consider "filler text" I found to be in depth explanations of how and why HTML works. Read more

Published on Oct 29 2001 by DSM Devin

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not get to the point
Instead of just explaining the tags and showing examples the book goes into long-winded discussions on how things work -- discussions that amount to nothing more than filler,... Read more

Published on Aug 16 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Basic, not for the serious
This book, like some of the other "Dummies" series, contains useful information, but it's hidden among the jokes, wisecracks, and other verbosity. Read more

Published on July 12 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars Not necessary
If you have a computer, and you want to learn HTML, you could save the money and go to sites like webmonkey that will teach you the same things, and more, for free. Read more

Published on Jun 19 2001 by Cara Tenenbaum

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, but not what i expected
This book is a book that can be described as "good." I will let you decide whether that is good or not. Read more