HTML: The Complete Reference
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Most HTML books don't bother to give beginners an introduction to the workings of the World Wide Web because the Web doesn't directly influence writing HTML documents. Powell provides this information because it eventually makes it easier for readers to understand why their HTML Web sites behave as they do. The result is a book well suited to beginning, intermediate, and advanced readers. Beginners learn HTML from the very basics. Intermediate users will gain the knowledge to become advanced, and even old pros will discover new details and updated information.
Powell begins the book with introductory chapters that discuss HTML and Web background and set the limits of what HTML coding alone can accomplish. From there he moves into lessons in basic HTML and progresses chapter by chapter to such high-end topics as advanced layout techniques, how to standardise Web-page presentation among browsers with style sheets, programmed Web pages, and client-side scripting and programming. The six appendices finish the book with a wealth of easy-to-use quick- reference information. --Elizabeth Lewis, Amazon.com
Customer Reviews:
This book is fundamental to understanding HTML
First things first. If you're going to build web sites you need to know HTML.
GUI development packages are all very well but an understanding of what you are doing is fundamental.
This book is fundamental to understanding.
It will work as a learning tool but excels as the reference it is intended as.
Wish that I'd bought the hard cover version 'cause this copy is going to get knackered with the amount of use it's going to get!
The Complete Reference ? More like the Final Reference 
I have not read this book but I have read the next edition of it. Which is available now.
Firstly I would like to start off by saying, "WOW". Ive read this book from beginning to end and it has not just helped me learn - 'revise' - HTML but it has also introduced me to whole new concepts of web design. These include things such as the CSS2 Aural properties, vbscript, javascript and some server side languages.
This book does not just teach you HTML but has a large appendix at the back that contains info on CSS, XML, HTML, SSL, CSL, Fonts for different systems and colours.
To finish I would just like to repeat, "WOW!".
a very very good one
it's always on my desk while coding
When Will They EVER Learn ???
I have had three of these Complete Reference books and all have fallen apart ... they are too damn thick. It's about time they took Reader's Comments on board and split their books into volumes - 1) Learn 2) Pocket Reference 3) Examples
If you want it, it's got it.
Most programmers' reference books cater for the advanced level programmer with no thought for those who want to simply want to learn HTML, however whether an entry level or an advanced programmer this book is for you. I have yet to find anything I want that this book does not have.
