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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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The humorous style abd great organization of this book makes learning fun, easy and effective. My 10 y/o daughter read 400 pages in one day, even doing the provided exercises. A truly amazing book. I will also get the Javascript one ...
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I love this book. It takes an interesting approach to teaching HTML by first introducing a topic, then driving it into your brain by giving you comics, crossword puzzles, and other fun things to do to test your knowledge. And, of course, it has many great practice problems where you actually build websites using not just the things from that chapter, but it combines everything you have learned so far throughout the book. This is another great book from O'Reilly publishers. They have other Headfirst books that I am definitely going to check out, because I just love this one. Five stars.
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I found this book very helpful. It teaches in a way that really works for me. I will probably try other Head First books to fill my needs.
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When I first started putting together websites a few
years back this was the only book I read.
I think I made it about half-way through... I still
don't know how to write CSS and I haven't had to learn.
When I was using this book I used HTML-Kit - free HTML
editor that is pretty good. I learned enough hand-coding
to create fairly retarded websites that got my point
across and made me a lot of money.
Once I had made some money I bought XSite Pro and I don't
often hand-code HTML anymore, though I do go in and edit
stuff when I need to.
The WYSIWYG editors have come a long way in the last couple
of years. These days you can make a really nice looking
website with Wordress... with no HTML knowledge at all.
At the time I got this book it helped me with what I
wanted to do - make some simple sites. These days I would
just tell you to learn Wordpress if you just want
to create a site.
I write website saleletters and the WYSIWYG editors often
make messy HTML that doesn't behave well in all browsers -
most notably Mozilla and Internet Explorer. I find
it necessary sometimes to open the code of a letter an
pull out a lot of junk HTML. The foundation of my
understanding of how to do that is this book.
A worthwhile introduction - but you can make a site today
without it.
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I was already pretty familar with this topic but had many "holes" in my understanding of several parts, especially CSS. This book has fixed that and fast. It is the most rapid I have ever read a technical book. The style is fun and it is very good at getting you to remember the main points. I would say it can be a little light on the details, I'm used to reading much denser material, but for those wanting a good quick foundation, this book is excellent.
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