Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072119772 ISBN 13: 9780072119770

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media, 1999

A mainstream product is updated to include the latest technologies and new versions of browsers from Microsoft and Netscape, lengthy discussions on XML and DHTML, along with working examples of user interface modifications, object movements, and examples of how XML relates to HTML.

Review:

Most HTML books don't bother to give beginners an introduction to the workings of the World Wide Web because the Web doesn't directly influence writing HTML documents. Powell provides this information because it eventually makes it easier for readers to understand why their HTML Web sites behave as they do. The result is a book well suited to beginning, intermediate, and advanced readers. Beginners learn HTML from the very basics. Intermediate users will gain the knowledge to become advanced, and even old pros will discover new details and updated information.

Powell begins the book with introductory chapters that discuss HTML and Web background and set the limits of what HTML coding alone can accomplish. From there he moves into lessons in basic HTML and progresses chapter by chapter to such high-end topics as advanced layout techniques, how to standardize Web-page presentation among browsers with style sheets, programmed Web pages, and client-side scripting and programming. The six appendices finish the book with a wealth of easy-to-use quick-reference information. --Elizabeth Lewis

From the Back Cover:

The definitive, all-inclusive resource for HTML! Create powerful, interactive Web pages and sites with HTML: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, the most in-depth tutorial and reference on HTML programming available! Top-selling author Thomas A. Powell provides lessons, techniques, and examples based on his highly successful UCSD Extension Web Publishing Certficate Program. Discover how to use HTML in conjunction with the latest Web technologies, including CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, ColdFusion, XML, and Active Server Pages, and learn how HTML works with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is the only HTML book you'll need! Inside, you'll find out how to: master simple to complex Web page design using step-by-step tutorials; get the facts on WebTV, Netscape Navigator, and Internet Explorer; build client interactivity easily with Dynamic HTML (DHTML); describe, deliver, and exchange structured data between multiple applications with Extensible Markup Language (XML); control color, font, and layout with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), TGI, and ColdFusion; use forms and the advanced scripting potential of Active Server Pages (ASP) to create complete applications that work on the Web; maximize your productivity with a 400-page reference section including HTML tags, color/HEX values, color names, fonts, and style sheets.