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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page (5th Edition)
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Author: Paul McFedries
List Price: $24.95
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ISBN: 002864316X
Publisher: Alpha Books (01 February, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 23,756
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Well-written, but out-of-date
This book is very well-organized. The instructions and tips concerning HTML coding are written in simple language and are very easy to follow. Unfortunately, many of the tags which McFedries uses in his examples are deprecated. Some browsers compensate for poor, out-of-date coding but others don't. If you use this book as your reference source for HTML coding while designing a complex website, you may end up with a website that looks beautiful when viewed in Netscape (which compensates for some coding errors) but which is unreadable when viewed in MSIE. If this book weren't so out of date, I would have rated it a 4. There's no question that McFedries knows how to teach coding and knows how to write well. I only hope that he writes an updated version.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Don't Be An Idiot
I've used several Idiot's Guides and Dummy books in the pasy with a high level of satisfaction. This one doesn't measure up to the standards the others have set.The book is overly simplistic, and everything taught can be found easily on the web for free. Don't waste your money on this one. David M Farrands
Rating: 4 out of 5
Overall a good book, but no Mac support
This book covers a lot of html coding for making your own website. It also covers the mechanics of getting your site "loaded" onto the web, which most books lack. My big disappointment is that it doesn't cover Mac software for creating and publishing webpages. While html is platform-neutral, the mechanics of publishing a website are not identical. At least something more than minimal acknowledgment of the Mac would be in order.
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