HTML, Illustrated Complete, Second Edition

This exciting and much anticipated third edition is updated to bring students the latest in HTML, conforming to XML and XHTML coding standards. Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual, step-by-step approach for learning how to create, format, and enhance a Web page using HTML. The completely new real-world case scenarios and new content are sure to help your students grasp key HTML skills. Provides updated HTML examples that conform to XML and XHTML coding standards, and new real-world case scenarios keeping your students up-to-date. Offers content for a full-semester HTML course. Includes two new units on Creating Links to Web Pages and Other Files and on Cascading Style Sheets. Offers a quick, visual way to learn the very latest features of HTML, including how to design and create a Web page, formatting and adding graphics to a page, creating forms, tables and frames, and more. Helps you prepare for your course with ease using the extensive Instructor Resources available with this text. This new edition was just released in March and is up to date with the newest standards. The explanations are easy to follow and the illustrations lead the reader to the task presented. This book introduces the beginner to HTML coding and no GUI editor is used or required. The reader gets to understand the content by seeing and doing. Used in college level courses but it is successfully used in k-12 schools and for home users. All reviews prior to March, 2006 are not for this book. My students and I love the book and I am sure you will too.

I had the pleasure of using this book for my college Web Design class and found it one of the easiest books to use. Using this book and the downloads offered by the publisher I aced all the projects at the end of the chapters. If you are new to computers then I suggest you go and take a Software Applications class first before you just in to Web Design. Also if you are not somewhat computer knowledgeable, then go back, learn all you can before you even forge ahead in to any type of Web Design.

I own 10 other books on HTML, all of them are pretty informative and received 4 to 5 stars from other reads which is one of the big reasons I bought them. This book however, I came across by pure chance, and I am happy I did. I don't normally take the time to write reviews, but I felt the two reviews I read did such a misjustice to the book, I had to take the time and write this one. This book shows you how to do things I didn't even know was possible with HTML like creating 3D Animation with about ten lines of code and a image, creating tables that can be sorted in response to the user clicking on the column heading, and to many other things to name. As a matter of fact, after completing this book I don't even look at sites I was so impressed with the same, because I know I can build a better site. It is also the benchmark I use to rate abvanced HTML books.