New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML -- Comprehensive [With CDROM]

by Patrick Carey

Book Overview

With coverage of code updated to reflect HTML 4.01 standards and coverage of XHTML, students will learn how to create Web page forms, work with Cascading style Sheets, and program with JavaScript. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760064849
• ISBN13: 9780760064849
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 512 Pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent classroom resource

I had the pleasure of using this book in a upper-level web page design class. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. The following are a few comments on the glitch side of things:1) On 2.24 there is a serious error. I think the authors switched "rock" and "links".2) RGB triplets in decimal were introduced without sufficient background on p. 3.49.3) Case 3 in Tutorial 4 was more of a chore than I think was useful. More on this later.4) I'm left unclear about how the underlining occurs bottom p. 6.48-top p. 6.49. Presumably this has to be done by the HTML coder.5) The expression "background-image:repeat-x" is wrong.6) I think it might have been better to have initialized XDay's day and month the same way that its year was initialized, i.e., using "setDate()" and "setMonth()". Or the student could be encouraged to find an alternative to what was proposed in the text. 7) The dense array technique for population an array seems easier to grasp than the one offered on p. 8.36, although I am not objecting to the authors' way of populating that array. Again, the existence of alternatives could be underlined.8) I didn't see any use made of the javascript roll-over, which seems a pity.General observations:1) The authors should have been more generous with their bibliographical material. There are some wonderful online tutorials which could have enriched the textbook. There are also some wonderful historical materials about the internet to which students could have been refered.2) The problems were imaginative, but too spoon-fed. I guess it's really up to the instructor to ask the students to put in their own text, etc. For the instructor, this makes checking to what extent a student did his own work well-nigh impossible.I plan to use this book next time I teach this class, but will have learned how to work around some of its weaknesses. It is, however, far and away the best book I have seen for a classroom situation. Patrick Carey et al. are to be congratulated.

Practical-Excellent for Self Study

This is a practical self study book. The author" Patrick Carey" takes you step by step to learn the proper HTML syntax. Each chapter is full of hands on examples. The first 6 chapters are designated to HTML, and 1 chapter about Cascade style sheet, which covers almost all CSS1 and CSS2. The author teaches you the basics, and then moves you to more advance topics. There are also 2 chapters geared to Java script. The book is an excellent book, I recommend it to any one that has no knowledge of HTML and wants to learn it 1 step at a time, you'll also learn CSS(cascade style sheet) which will take your web site into a higher stage. In addition, the book includes lessons on Javascript in order to make your web site Dynamic. The book gets 5 stars.

From a Begining HTML student

I am new to programming, however have extensive spreadsheet experience and have taken several programming courses in college. I found this book an excellent book for learning HTML on your own. I had to purchase this book for a course and found I picked up more from reading the book than listening in class. The subject matter flows very consistently and the examples and accompanying CD makes it very easy to learn HTML. Again being a beginner, I would highly recommend this book.

Excellent Self-Study

This is an excellent book for self-study. No prior programming skills are needed. Each chapter is full of colorful pictures and graphics. You just copy the codes in the chapter line by line and you see the page you've created. Instant gratification. At the end of the chapter there are 3 or 4 projects. The book gives you a few hints, but you need to code them yourself. The projects and chapter modules are all interesting. Unlike other html books that try to be all inclusive (which explains the 1000+ pages), this book focuses only on HTML. If you want a clear solid foundation in HTML that is also fun, this is the book. I wish the publisher would have a book for CSS.

Excellent tutorial text

I have used this text for a university self-study course. The students have found it very useful. Because so many graphics are made available from the publisher's web site, very impressive web pages can be created from the beginning.