Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages (2nd Edition) (Absolute Beginner's Guide) by Todd Stauffer

Product Description

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages assumes that readers are true beginners - no prior Web page experience is necessary!

This hands-on tutorial teaches readers the fundamentals of creating Web pages, along with more advanced ideas like message areas, chat, and e-commerce options to make the page look like it was created by a professional. The book begins by explaining the need for HTML and the basics of good Web page design. It then covers using HTML tags and tools, formatting text, adding images, and building links. Later chapters demonstrate how to add features to Web pages including tables, colors, frames, multimedia content, JavaScript, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. The author has also included several hundred pages of useful additional information, perfect for the beginning Web designer.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #294381 in Books
* Published on: 2002-11-09
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 384 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages assumes that readers are true beginners - no prior Web page experience is necessary!

This hands-on tutorial teaches readers the fundamentals of creating Web pages, along with more advanced ideas like message areas, chat, and e-commerce options to make the page look like it was created by a professional. The book begins by explaining the need for HTML and the basics of good Web page design. It then covers using HTML tags and tools, formatting text, adding images, and building links. Later chapters demonstrate how to add features to Web pages including tables, colors, frames, multimedia content, JavaScript, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. The author has also included several hundred pages of useful additional information, perfect for the beginning Web designer.

About the Author

Todd Stauffer is the author or co-author of more than 25 computing books, including HTML Web Publishing 6-in-1, HTML by Example with Ann Navarro, and Creating Your Own AOL Web Page with Andy Shafran. Stauffer has written for a number of magazines, including Publish magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter, Working Woman, and MacAddict.

Todd has worked as an advertising writer, technical writer, and magazine editor, all in consumer-oriented computing. Outside of computing, he's also a humor columnist and a travel/automotive writer. You can reach him via his Web site, at http://www.mac-upgrade.com.

Customer Reviews

this is a really good book5
After skimming a sad stack of "learn how to create web pages" books I found this. It isn't so basic as to be close to useless, nor an impenetrable tome of code. It is an excellent introduction which provides the big picture--it is easier to learn how to do something when you understand how it works--and step by step details for those new to xhtml. Don't be fooled by the cheesy design of the cover. This is a well-written book for intelligent beginners and the best choice in this category.

Not For Absolute Beginners is a better title3
I am a true beginner, wondering how the heck to get a simple website started. I read the first 5 chapters, and I still don't know. Some very basic information seems to be missing, such as "How do I get the info from my computer to my web page? Can I preview what I'm doing? etc."

Best book for learning html code5
I read this book three times then coded my first site. I knew nothing about html prior to reading the book.

It was fantastic to read a book that not only explained in fairly plain English what each tag is and how it works, it showed easy examples and lessons to follow.

Highly recommend this book to those who want to create their own website!