W. L. Paxton said
I purchased this book when I decided to build an online business. I was going to build my own web site. Because of the security issues with accepting credit cards I got a professional to build my site but the fact is I could have built it myself after having read Ian Lloyd's book. It gives the detail you need without being boring and the author realizes, I think, who his target audience is. Beginners!
B Fosh said
this book is a great read for anyone knowing nothing about html but having a basic knowledge of how the internet works. I read it in about a week, doing the practice site along with the book. Then when i was working on my family's site on iWeb, I got frustrated and just replaced the entire site with one I made from what I learned reading this book. Now I'm practicing on some sites that just for fun, but I can tell now that I can do just about everything without needing the book for a reference for positioning or my CSS page. I'd like to get an HTML-reference book for more advanced stuff, but the editor I'm using (espresso on the Mac) is fantastic with a list of HTML tags to use. This book is definitely one you read from cover to cover. I stopped at the part at the end about FTP and web hosting and forms because I've already got a good understanding of FTP and webhosting (I use dreamhost.com webhosting). I'm now reading "PHP and MySQL web Development" because this is that I've been wanting to learn all along. I feel I have a good basis of HTML and CSS, but I want to do more with web development. I highly recommend this beginning HTML/CSS book for anyone wanting to get their feet wet with web development, or who just wants to make a basic website for their family.
Also, the site that you make with the book kind of seems cheesy especially at first. Just stick it out, because you'll see how it comes together from ugly to decent. Then when you're done, keep the code around as a basic template and build your own site. Even if it the same layout, you can change the colors and obviously the content. Here are some sites that give you the binary color codes (you'll realize why you need these if you have no idea now) and patterns to use for backgrounds, etc.
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Haukur Gudjonsson said
I learned HTML programing a few years back and had not used it much since then. After starting making a new website last month I realized I had forgotten much of what I learned and I knew that the HTML language had changed a little over the past years. I had never used CSS so I thought it was time to refresh my knowledge and I bought this book. The book helped me get a good grasp of both HTML and CSS. It is written in an easy and fun way to read and I never got bored, much better then most of the programing books I have read. So I higly recommend it for anybody taking there first steps or wanting to freshen up on old knowledge :)
Charles Chapin said
I really didn't know much, or anything, about XHTML, or CSS, or any of the basic web site components and this book is great at taking you step by step in order for you to successfully learn them.
Great visual aids, and it's website counterpart is phenomenal! Would definitely recommend to any beginner that's looking to learn how to build a website.
Jo Anderson said
'Mr Bridge' by Evan S. Connell was totally unknown to me until I saw the DVD with Paul Newman in the title role. The film so roused my curiosity that I sent for both books which form the composite story, 'Mr & Mrs Bridge' To a British person, 'Mr Bridge' is tremendously American - though I have read lots of American novels - but the character (could I call him a HERO ?) must have some Scottish blood in him. I can't tell you how many Scotsmen are exactly like him, even today ! You may think Mr Bridge is repressed, but he is kin to the average expressive, middle-class Scot. I could show you a roomful of Mr Bridges any day in Edinburgh! I was curious as to how Evan Connell would present Mr Bridge, but I find that he simply paints him as he is, and whilst he has insights into the working of his mind - " he felt bewildered. Why had she chosen this night to grow nostalgic ?" the author doesn't attempt any judgements. We take Mr Bridge as he is, and he is straightforward in the extreme.
This 1930s and 1940s world is bright with certainty and an enviable morality, even if only a small number of Americans would have agreed with Mr Bridge's notions. Most of the Bridges' beliefs are conveyed in direct speech, in short, staccato sentences. Every short, brilliant chapter begins on a different note - and is so beautifully written that it is difficult to put the book down. The Bridges' house is full of sunlight and order, and the Bridges' children are harbingers of an age of disorder which is about to (along with the really serious harbingers of the time, like Hitler...) destroy our certainties. Maybe I am reading too much into a simple portrait of a family, for I see the book on two levels. However, the portrait of Mr Bridge is quite fascinating taken on its own, and one can enjoy it as a charming period piece.
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