Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.

• Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.

• Page for page, the best content and value around.

• Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 198 Ratings

Read the 1-3 ratings before buying - 2009-09-30
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I bought this book because of all of the high ratings. I find the format very hard to follow and wish I had paid more attention to the low rating reviews. I want to buy another book but don't know what to buy now since this one had such high ratings.

Beginner Classic - 2009-09-26
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This book is a great source book for beginners. Information is well written and easy to understand. This is a "must have" reference book.

Direct simple book - 2009-07-16
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Direct simple book, easy to get started, altough it covers a lot of subjects. It references the differences between HTML and XHTML.

Okay, Good Tips, Organization Fair - 2009-07-06
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This book has some good tips and shows relevant, simple examples. I did learn some points from it, but didn't find it as good as some of the other reviewers did. I'm not an expert on the topic, but not a beginner either.

The author sometimes mixes styling in the html instead of consistantly placing the styling in the CSS which could be confusing for beginners or others who have a goal of XHTML-strict complaint code. The author does state that it is intentional in one of the beginning chapters, but continues to do it in later chapters.

The book constantly references other pages which makes you have to jump around. The author also intermingles deprecated properties in the book which can be confusing. Since this is not a book on the history of this topic, I'm not sure why deprecated properties would be even included.

The author obviously dislikes Microsoft's IE and instead of just indicating the differences between browsers, make comments like "IE 6 doesn't think you know what you're doing..." which seems unnecessary.

I learn by hands on excercises and this book really didn't have any exercises for you to do. The chapters didn't build on previous examples, so you could see a progression of before and after. I was also disappointed in the companion website. For example, the left frame was too narrow and the text for links wraps around over several lines. It just wasn't a very good example for a book on website structure and styling.

Great book, decent shipping, great condition. - 2009-10-19
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The shipping was lack luster. Like 7 days or so, order another book at same time and got that one in two days. Booyakasha.

The CONDITION HOWEVER! HOLY HELL! It was slammin! Perfect. Nice! Clean! AWESOME.

Great book btw. Enjoy.

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