Practical Html: A Self-Paced Tutorial : Includes Macintosh and Windows Disks Containing Practice Exercise Files (Internet Workshop Series)

Tennant, Roy

ISBN 10: 1882208196 / ISBN 13: 9781882208197

Published by Library Solutions Pr, 1996

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Good+; Contents are tight and clean; two disks at back; Ex-Library; Soft Cover; Library Solutions Pr; 1996; 0.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Html: A Self-Paced Tutorial : Includes Macintosh and Windows Disks Containing Practice Exercise Files (Internet Workshop Series)
• Publisher: Library Solutions Pr
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1882208196
• ISBN 13: 9781882208197
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

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Synopsis

A workshop tutorial guide emphasizing the most practical route to creating Web documents. Internet trainer Tennant compiles his most successful teaching techniques and boils down to the essentials what a user needs to know in order to manipulate images, links, tables, forms, HTML software authoring, validating, and translating. The accompanying disks supply complete exercises conforming to the principles of appealing design and style. Includes illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Reviews

With a plethora of HTML (hypertext markup language) manuals available, many of them approaching the size of local telephone books, a novice could feel a bit overwhelmed and intimidated. However, Tennant, coauthor of the early Internet instruction manual Crossing the Internet Threshold (Professional Reading, LJ 9/1/92), has put together this bare-bones primer for those who haven't yet taken the plunge into web publishing. The book is divided into two sections or "modules." Module 1 covers selected HTML tags as well as style and design concepts. Module 2 goes beyond the basics, covering image mapping, tables, and forms, but presents these advanced techniques in an easy-to-follow manner. There are seven exercises to be completed using the image and text files on the accompanying diskette. A self-paced learner may find the exercises difficult to complete without peeking at the answers, thankfully supplied in the appendix. Incorporating the exercises, along with the correct tags and structure, into the text would have been a better format. This would have created a more conducive learning experience and better cement the concepts being discussed. There is also a glossary, a listing of HTML tags, reproduced overheads and screen shots, and guidelines for web document style and design. Trainers who choose to use this book in a workshop setting can download Microsoft Powerpoint overheads from the author's homepage. Unfortunately, the steep price is prohibitive, considering the availability of less expensive yet more comprehensive books, as well as free online tutorials on this topic. A better value for individual learners would be Laura Lemay's Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a Week (SAMS.net Pub., 1996), Ian Graham's HTML Sourcebook (Computer Currents, LJ 10/1/95), or Larry Aronson's HTML Manual of Style (Computer Currents, LJ 4/1/95).?Robert Battenfeld, Long Island Univ.
Southampton Lib., N.Y.
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