HTML and XHTML Step by Step

By Faithe Wempen

Experience learning made easy'and quickly teach yourself the skills you need to create Web pages with HTML and XHTML. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need, or work from cover to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735622639
• ISBN13: 9780735622630
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Love this Book!

I am new to programming and was afraid to get discouraged quickly because I don't understand material. Beauty of this book is that you get to create site just by following simple steps and learning along the way. I need tell you that this book gave me wings and made me to believe that I can do anything! It showed me the logic behind the screen. I am very grateful to the writer and wish there were more books like this on the market.

html and xhtml sterp by step

This book was extremely easy to follow and relate my personal informattion. I built an entire 13 page website within two days using only html codes.

This book is easy to use, but takes you a long way

A beginner will go from nothing to intermediate very quickly. I've been working with web pages at work for a year, and decided I needed some better grounding in html I am using Visual Studio to make web pages and have been doing quite well, but I realized "something was missing" in my knowledge, as I was running into "walls". So I picked up this book. As the author says, "but you will be a much better Web designer--and understand what is going on in Word or FrontPage much better--if you tough it out with Notepad in the beginning.". Visual Studio is great, but I needed to "fill in the holes" in my knowledge of what' going on underneath and how I can manipulate that. This book works for learning and also as a reference. I hope this author continues to write other books in this manner - I will be looking for books by her. It's what the "Step by Step" books should be like.

The First Step to Learn about Web Design

If you want to learn about web design, the first step is learning HTML and XHTML. The last official version of HTML (4.1) was released in 1999. In January, 2000, the W3C release XHTML. HTML and XHTML are very similar; XHTML uses the stricter syntax of XML. I have been looking for a book to teach an introductory HTML class. Most books I reviewed were not up-to-date. I really needed a book that did NOT use deprecated tags, that used XHTML syntax, and that introduced cascading style sheets. HTML and XHTML Step-by-Step is the book I have been looking for. The book is very well-organized with plenty of exercises. The explanations are clear. It's a great book to teach yourself HTML and XHTML even if you are a completely new to web design. What is absent is a discussion about cross-browser compatibility. Being a Microsoft Press book, it only addresses IE. If you are using another browser, for example, Firefox, you will find that some of the css code will display differently in other browsers. But this is a basic book and a good web design teacher should be able to point out the differences. There are also a few syntax errors, but they a minimal. On the whole, this a great book to start with if you are learning about web design.

I absolutely love this book!

Using this book is the way all aspiring web designers or web developers should begin their journey. HTML is the basis and foundation of everything relating to the web. This book shows you the basic elements of a web page from a structural standpoint. The HTML code is presented neatly and consisely. The method they use to help you learn is using Notepad. Stripped of all WYSIWYG tools (if you don't know what this means...google it) the user acquires an understanding of what HTML does in regards to presentation and how the browser interprets everything that is written. The simplicity and straightforward style of the book is greatly appreciated. I am impressed and will use this book to train students in my web design classes. The book does suffer from too much simplicity. Once you have gotten HTML under your belt you will want to know more about HTML or find out about other tags that are available. The next book to add to your library would then be "The Complete Reference HTML & XHTML". This will make you complete in that regard as it also covers CSS and web practices. Keep in mind that some of the web practices may or may no longer still apply given that the aforementioned reference was written in 2003. As for the Step by Step HTML & XHTML...I highly recommend it!