| Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML | 
| Authors: Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (240 reviews) Sales Rank: 2215
Format: Illustrated Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 694 Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3 Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8 x 1.7
ISBN: 059610197X Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7 EAN: 9780596101978 ASIN: 059610197X
Publication Date: December 8, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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  Great Learnign Tool October 18, 2008 The humorous style abd great organization of this book makes learning fun, easy and effective. My 10 y/o daughter read 400 pages in one day, even doing the provided exercises. A truly amazing book. I will also get the Javascript one ...
  Great book! October 15, 2008 I love this book. It takes an interesting approach to teaching HTML by first introducing a topic, then driving it into your brain by giving you comics, crossword puzzles, and other fun things to do to test your knowledge. And, of course, it has many great practice problems where you actually build websites using not just the things from that chapter, but it combines everything you have learned so far throughout the book. This is another great book from O'Reilly publishers. They have other Headfirst books that I am definitely going to check out, because I just love this one. Five stars.
  Very helpful book October 9, 2008 I found this book very helpful. It teaches in a way that really works for me. I will probably try other Head First books to fill my needs.
  Looking back - this was a good introduction October 5, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first started putting together websites a few years back this was the only book I read.
I think I made it about half-way through... I still don't know how to write CSS and I haven't had to learn.
When I was using this book I used HTML-Kit - free HTML editor that is pretty good. I learned enough hand-coding to create fairly retarded websites that got my point across and made me a lot of money.
Once I had made some money I bought XSite Pro and I don't often hand-code HTML anymore, though I do go in and edit stuff when I need to.
The WYSIWYG editors have come a long way in the last couple of years. These days you can make a really nice looking website with Wordress... with no HTML knowledge at all.
At the time I got this book it helped me with what I wanted to do - make some simple sites. These days I would just tell you to learn Wordpress if you just want to create a site.
I write website saleletters and the WYSIWYG editors often make messy HTML that doesn't behave well in all browsers - most notably Mozilla and Internet Explorer. I find it necessary sometimes to open the code of a letter an pull out a lot of junk HTML. The foundation of my understanding of how to do that is this book.
A worthwhile introduction - but you can make a site today without it.
  Good foundation for those wanting to learn this topic September 29, 2008 I was already pretty familar with this topic but had many "holes" in my understanding of several parts, especially CSS. This book has fixed that and fast. It is the most rapid I have ever read a technical book. The style is fun and it is very good at getting you to remember the main points. I would say it can be a little light on the details, I'm used to reading much denser material, but for those wanting a good quick foundation, this book is excellent.
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