Customer Reviews
Very Good Book - By: Karapanos George, 13 Aug 2008 
A very good book for beginners.Its not the book that will make you expert but it helps you to understand how the basics of HTML works.Also very well written!
from a very keen newbe to HTML and CSS - By: E. Rogers, 13 Feb 2008 
I can not recommend this book highly enough. While I am sure the professionals find it's lay out too simple. IT WAS IDEAL FOR ME! I have had it now 3 weeks & have just published my first web site & it looks good!! Can't believe it!
Clear concise layout with easy to follow instructions on things that really are complicated. (Trust me I have three other books that make it look like code that only people with degreesin computer science could understand!)
If you can't get a basic page up & run by the end of this book I strongly recommend you pay someone to do it for you.
It has made me keen enough to perhaps get a book that goes into some of the areasin more detail now that I have the grounding knowledge.
But saying that I still think this book will always be close to hand as a quick reference point for many years to come.....
Difficult read - By: DP, 10 Feb 2008 
I'm afraid I have to agree with other reviewers that have criticised the writing style of the authorin this book. She seems to be targeting the beginner with an introduction of how the internet & world wide web evolved & what a web page is but then the actual instructions dive rightin at a deep end of assumed knowledge. I have some knowledge of computing but am not an expert by any means. I bought this to accompany an evening class I am attending but I am finding it a hard read. Not one for the complete beginner but might work as a useful reference book when I acquire a bit more knowledge.
The raw information. Up to you to make sense of it. - By: Mr. D. F. Poisson, 23 Jan 2008 OK, I'm not a complete idiot, I taught myself basic html bit by bitin short spurts at my local bookstore without ever buying a book. Now I wanted to start understanding a bit more about XHTML & CSS, so I asked for this book for Christmas.
It has turned out to be one of the worst written 'teach yourself' books that I have ever read, & by golly, I've read a few. What kind of teacher uses jargonin the first chapter of her book to explain more jargon? Instead of using simple examples involving nothing but the elements learnedin a given chapter, she introduces code that hasn't yet been covered as illustration!
One might expect some kind of systematic orderin a book this expensive... otherwise, you might as well go to any random techie website (some of which are actually much clearer than this book!) & hope that some reccurent piece of gobbledigook will start making sense after enough repetition. Same experience, a hell of alot cheaper!
The information is there, which is why I give it two stars instead of one, there's just not way for a novice to access it. ANd if you're not a novice, then you don't need this book. I expect a book that anounces itself as 'quickstart for beginners' to to the teaching for mein layman's terms, not for me to have to assimilate all the information before being able to start making sense of it for myself & processing it so that it becomes useful. Believe me, try something else. This is poor.
Awful - By: Mr. T. Pope, 17 Dec 2007 
ALthough I have voted Mr Fulcher's review as helpful I feel it is utterly necessary to formally register my complete & undeviating agreement with what he has written. I can add no more than say that this book as about as helpful as a small teaspoon isin shifting a pile of rotten manure.
