Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (English, Paperback, Freeman Eric)

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Freeman Eric

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Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780596101978, 059610197X
Edition: 2005
Pages: 694

Description

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML" and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those Web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintain and expand your Web pages over time, and so your Web pages work in all the browsers and mobile devices out there. Oh, and if you've never heard of CSS, that's okay - we won't tell anyone you're still partying like it's 1999 - but if you're going to create Web pages in the 21st century then you'll want to know and understand CSS. Learn the real secrets of creating Web pages, and why everything your boss told you about HTML tables is probably wrong (and what to do instead). Most importantly, hold your own with your co-worker (and impress cocktail party guests) when he casually mentions how his HTML is now strict, and his CSS is in an external style sheet.With "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML", you'll avoid the embarrassment of thinking Web-safe colors still matter, and the foolishness of slipping a font tag into your pages. Best of all, you'll learn HTML and CSS in a way that won't put you to sleep. If you've read a "Head First" book, you know what to expect: a visually-rich format designed for the way your brain works. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, this book will load HTML, CSS, and XHTML into your brain in a way that sticks. So what are you waiting for? Leave those other dusty books behind and come join us in Webville. Your tour is about to begin.

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Imprint	O'Reilly Media
Publication Year	2005

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Elisabeth Robson (formerly Freeman) is coauthor of O\'Reilly\'s Head First Design Patterns and Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. She is currently Special Projects Director at O\'Reilly where she is developing new brain-friendly learning ideas and products.
Eric Freeman is a computer scientist with a passion for media and software architectures and coauthor of Head First Design Patterns. He just wrapped up four years at a dream job-- directing internet broadband and wireless efforts at Disney--and is now back to writing, creating cool software, and hacking Java and Macs.\nEric spent a lot of the \'90s working on alternatives to the desktop metaphor with David Gelernter (and they\'re both still asking the question, \"Why do I have to give a file a name?\"). Based on this work, Eric landed a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1997. He also co-founded Mirror Worlds Technologies (now acquired) to create a commercial version of his thesis work, Lifestreams.

\nIn a previous life, Eric built software for networks and supercomputers. You might know him from such books as JavaSpaces Principles Patterns and Practice. Eric has fond memories of implementing tuple-space systems on Thinking Machine CM-5s and creating some of the first internet information systems for NASA in the late 1980s.

\nWhen he\'s not writing text or code you\'ll find him spending more time tweaking than watching his home theater and trying to restore a circa 1980s Dragon\'s Lair video game. He also wouldn\'t mind moonlighting as an electronica DJ.

\nWrite to him at eric at wickedlysmart dot com or visit him at .

Elisabeth Robson (formerly Freeman) is coauthor of O\'Reilly\'s Head First Design Patterns and Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. She is currently Special Projects Director at O\'Reilly where she is developing new brain-friendly learning ideas and products.
Eric Freeman is a computer scientist with a passion for media and software architectures and coauthor of Head First Design Patterns. He just wrapped up four years at a dream job-- directing internet broadband and wireless efforts at Disney--and is now back to writing, creating cool software, and hacking Java and Macs.\nEric spent a lot of the \'90s working on alternatives to the desktop metaphor with David Gelernter (and they\'re both still asking the question, \"Why do I have to give a file a name?\"). Based on this work, Eric landed a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1997. He also co-founded Mirror Worlds Technologies (now acquired) to create a commercial version of his thesis work, Lifestreams.

\nIn a previous life, Eric built software for networks and supercomputers. You might know him from such books as JavaSpaces Principles Patterns and Practice. Eric has fond memories of implementing tuple-space systems on Thinking Machine CM-5s and creating some of the first internet information systems for NASA in the late 1980s.

\nWhen he\'s not writing text or code you\'ll find him spending more time tweaking than watching his home theater and trying to restore a circa 1980s Dragon\'s Lair video game. He also wouldn\'t mind moonlighting as an electronica DJ.

\nWrite to him at eric at wickedlysmart dot com or visit him at .

Dimensions

Width	30 mm
Height	234 mm
Length	205 mm
Weight	1530 gr

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Several Positives

The strengths of this book are:
1) Style /layout: Learning can be fun is a cliche but you should read this book to know what it really meant.
2) Content: While this was the first technical book in computers I have actually finished to last, means that it was fun learning the essentials in this topic.

The book effectively utilizes example codes that one can download from the Headfirst lab web-site and tinker with it.

The exercises and the "sharpen your pencils" questions are very apt to re...

Sudip Bhattacharya

May, 2012

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This book got me re-hooked to code.

One thing this book really helped me appreciate was that it is our approach to things that makes them interesting or dull. After having been in the rat race of academia for verry long I just gave up on learning any form of code work. It was very difficult to convince my brain the importance of it (Yes. Believe me no skill every goes waste)

This book just doesn't teach you HTML/CSS. It does more. It teaches you how to learn. It kindles a fire. And once you have a flame burning.. learning bec...

Rohit Kshirsagar

Mar, 2013

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Must have for a CS student

Its a common perception of CSS being boring but this book makes it so interesting and makes you wanna read more.
Do yourself a favor and go by this book,it'll clear many misconceptions you might have along with explaining you CSS(and of course,html too) in a way that sticks with you.

Yaman Arora

Nov, 2012

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Best Introduction to CSS ever

This may be the best introduction you will ever find to CSS. Rather than going for everything, this book teaches the most useful subset and in such a way that you will have a hard time forgetting it.
The chapter on XHTML may be irrelevant now that HTML5 will be the new specification, but still, the coverage of HTML is a good read.

Kaustubh

Jan, 2012

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