Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours (5th Edition)

A collection of 24 one-hour lessons on XML and XHTML programming languages. Teaches step-by-step all of the essentials of Web publishing with these languages, with each lesson building on the knowledge from the previous one. Shows how to work with Java sound, applets, and video as well. Softcover.

Dick Oliver (dicko@24hourHTMLcafe.com) is the tall, dark, handsome author of lots of great books and software, including Web Page Wizardry, Netscape Unleashed, Create Your Own Web Page Graphics, and Tricks of the Graphics Gurus. He is also the president of Cedar Software and the warped mind behind the Nonlinear Nonsense Netletter at netletter (and many other Web sites). When he isn't banging on a keyboard, he's usually snowboarding, sledding, skiing, or warming up by the woodstove in his cozy northern Vermont home (where they celebrate a day of summer each year, too). He likes writing HTML, eating killer-spicy Indian food, and waltzing wildly around the office with his daughters-not necessarily in that order. He also thinks it's pretty cool that authors get to write their own "About the Authors" sections.

Charles Ashbacher (ashbacher@ashbacher.com) has led many lives. He started his work life as a construction laborer before he decided to use his head and went to college. Since then, he has been a college instructor, a programmer in physics research, a research scientist, and a software engineer. His current activities are writing, reviewing, editing, teaching community education classes, and serving as a freelance instructor and consultant for his company, Charles Ashbacher Technologies, where he is President and CEO. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics. When not pushing his favorite old mouse around, he can be found gardening, doing odd jobs for elderly widows, coaching youth sports, or spending time with his children Katrina, Steven, and Rebecca. You can visit his Web site at ashbacher/. He is also the author of four books, the latest being Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours.