HTML-The Definitive Guide

• Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• ISBN: 1-56592-175-5

Order (or just read more about) HTML-The Definitive Guide from Amazon.com

This is an excellent beginners guide to HTML. It doesn't touch much on cgi-bin programming (just enough to cover forms), but everything else is there.

The experienced web person isn't going to learn anything here, though it is still a quick and concise reference when your brain just refuses to react to your need to know the syntactical elements of a <TABLE> tag. Because my brain regularly shuts down, or decides to playfully hide information I need now, I find that this book still gets pulled off the shelf a few times a month.

For those designers who only use front end HTML editors, trust me that someday you will realize that the bloated and confused pages produced by such crutches can be source edited to be faster and easier to read and understand. When you reach that stage of enlightment, you are going to need to understand HTML. This book is your reference.

Comments?

More Articles by Tony Lawrence - Find me on Google+

Jump to Comments

Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. Some were given to me specifically for the purpose of reviewing them. I resell or can earn commissions from the sale of some of these items. Links within these pages may be affiliate links that pay me for referring you to them. That's mostly insignificant amounts of money; whenever it is not I have made my relationship plain. I also may own stock in companies mentioned here. If you have any question, please do feel free to contact me.

Specific links that take you to pages that allow you to purchase the item I reviewed are very likely to pay me a commission. Many of the books I review were given to me by the publishers specifically for the purpose of writing a review. These gifts and referral fees do not affect my opinions; I often give bad reviews anyway.

We use Google third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.