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Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS (Wrox Beginning Guides)
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Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS (Wrox Beginning Guides) |
Author: Jon Duckett
Published: 2004-08-06 |
List price: $39.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 An excellent book...
This is an excellent book in order to learn actual web page design. It's really easy to follow by non-english speakers (like me, I'm spanish).
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br /It has a lot of usefull information about HTML, CSS and general web design.
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br /Highly recommended!!!
 Programmer
I as a programmer think that this book is a productive book, the guy go over all the materials you need to learn step by step and smoothly.
Excellent - Informative
It's an excellent and informative book! It helped me very much to teach the item to a very "difficult audience"!
Great teaching book
Great introduction to front-end web programming using XHTML and CSS. It even gets into the nitty-gritty of SEO strategies, rating your site for child access, testing methods, and accessibility for the visually impaired. Also provides a good, although brief intro to JavaScript, database driven websites, and programming for mobile devices.
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br /Yes there is a lot of repetition and a bit of wandering back and forth across subjects, and yes it can be annoying. But most books in this genre are guilty of that. This one is no better nor worse than the others. Nice reference and appendix. Recommended.
 Hard to follow
I have gone from being frustrated with this title to disliking it intensely. I would suggest alternate materials such as the O'Reilly publication, "HTML XHTML: The Definitive Guide."
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br /First, "BWP w/HTML, XHTML, and CSS" is dated. Its publication date is 2004. This text often complains that features "are not supported by browsers" that have since been updated. There are more current materials published within the last year. (And on the subject of browsers, I have not found a single mention of Mozilla, Safari, or Opera in this book).
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br /Second, the author's presentation is often difficult to follow. Concedely it is a difficult subject to organize when there are "live" tags, "deprecated" tags, the ongoing effort to separate stylistic elements into CSS, and different browswers' idiosyncracies with which to deal. Duckett, however, is next to hopeless in separating these subjects.
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br /Most critical is the fact that this book is a very unhappy blend between an introductory tutorial and a reference "bible." Duckett will introduce a basic concept -- say, "tables" and will then load up on all of the attributes that the element might take. Learning the key ideas gets lost in the process. The book often leads off into asides and references to more advanced topics that will easily lose the initiate. It is no coincidence that several of the reviews here use the word "intermediate" in connection with this text.
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br /The author does not seem to understand the principle that individuals learn by working from the "known" step-by-step to the "unknown." Instead, he seems to rely upon the idea that "if I throw everything at them in a random fashion, they'll figure out a good amount of it."
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br /As an example of its "random walk" approach, Chapter 4 first provides a sound introduction into the use of colors and making references to images. The closing section of the chapter, however, branches off into a discussion of the object element which introduces all kinds of ideas and side-references that will be premature for many.
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br /As usual with a Wrox publication (I am familiar with three), there is the usual complement of careless typographical errors. Many are immaterial, but there are even errors in the code that accompanies the text (to be downloaded from the publisher's website -- see e.g. the revised "registration form" at the end of Chapter 6.
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br /I don't recommend this "Beginning" book for anyone other than someone who already has a reasonable grounding in the subjects it covers. Go elsewhere.
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