The smart way to learn HTML and XHTML?and begin creating Web pages?one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to learn the essentials of working with HTML and XHTML in Microsoft® Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003. You can learn to format text and apply colors, create hyperlinks and bookmarks, incorporate sound and video, set up lists and tables, create user forms, and work with Cascading Style Sheets. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Designed for beginning-level and intermediate-level users, STEP BY STEP lets you drive the instruction?building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

Experience learning made easy?and quickly teach yourself the skills you need to create Web pages with HTML and XHTML. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need, or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction?building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Structure your page with tables, frames, or a division-based layout Create bulleted and numbered lists for easy-to-read text Include hyperlinks and menu bars for clear navigation Add graphics, sounds, and videos to your pages Apply colors, font sizes, and other formatting with tags or Cascading Style Sheets Build user-input forms with option buttons, check boxes, and drop-down menus Includes coverage of Microsoft Office Word 2003 and FrontPage 2003 Practice files, eBooks, and other resources on the CD! Your Microsoft Office System Reference Pack on CD includes: HTML color reference charts HTML and XHTML templates Bonus guides: Designing for Accessibility and Designing for Usability Microsoft Office System Quick Reference eBook Insider s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 eBook Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, eBook?10,000+ entries!Introducing the Tablet PC eBook Complete STEP BY STEP eBook Skill-building practice files

The smart way to learn HTML and XHTMLone step at a time. Build exactly the skills you need to start creating Web pages as you work at your own pace with easy-to-follow lessons a hands-on practice files on CD.

The smart way to learn HTML and XHTML—and begin creating Web pages—one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to learn the essentials of working with HTML and XHTML in Microsoft® Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003. You can learn to format text and apply colors, create hyperlinks and bookmarks, incorporate sound and video, set up lists and tables, create user forms, and work with Cascading Style Sheets. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Designed for beginning-level and intermediate-level users, STEP BY STEP lets you drive the instruction—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

Love this Book!
I am new to programming and was afraid to get discouraged quickly because I don’t understand material. Beauty of this book is that you get to create site just by following simple steps and learning along the way.
I need tell you that this book gave me wings and made me to believe that I can do anything! It showed me the logic behind the screen. I am very grateful to the writer and wish there were more books like this on the market.

html and xhtml sterp by step
This book was extremely easy to follow and relate my personal informattion. I built an entire 13 page website within two days using only html codes.

Good starting point
This is a good starting point for learning the basics. I especially like the instructive exercises. I have only one caveat: there are some typos, one of which gave me some minor grief trying to get my first web page validated at one of the online validation sites. In chapter 2 the author explains how the opening tag should look in an XHTML document, but transposes two of the letters (xlmns should read xmlns). The same mistake is repeated in the instructional exercise (step 8 of the first exercise in chapter 2).

To repeat: it is a good starting point to learn the basics and the exercises provide clarity, but be aware of the typos and get a good reference work to go with it. I bought HTML & XHTML: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series) to go with it, and am satisfied that these two books will put me on the path to competence in creating web pages.

Great Book for Beginners
I found this book a really really good guide to learning html code.
The book takes you through the setup of a website for a ficticious "Garden Company" but the techniques use would be easily ported to any site design. By the end of the book you will be surprised at the how professional the site you will have created looks!
All coding is performed from the ground up in Notepad, with superb tuition througout. The book is very good at explaning why things are they way they are in the world of HTML For example:
- How tags can be used (i.e sloppy coding) vs. how they should be used to ensure compatability with the new XHTML standard.
- Examples and tutorials on the use of style sheets (CSS) to maintain consistancy throughout your site.
- The pros and cons of using Tables, Divisions or Frames for site layout with detiled examples of each

Buy this book if...
- You have very little or no experience of HTML coding, and you want to learn the nuts and bolts of HTML coding.

Dont buy this book if....
- You can already code a website in HTML.
- You dont care about HTML code, you just want to make sites using "drag and drop techniques" availble in programs like Dreamweaver etc..
(I’m not saying there anything wrong with that!)

Enjoy!

Html Xhtml Book
Very good book for beginners who know very little about HTML and XHTML.

Got me almost nowhere
In an attempt to learn XHTML I bought this - It was a complete waste. Using it I found it of interest, churning through it I got somewhere, however not fast enough. Firstly using Notepad (as advised with the book) is understandable, but when there are much better products (I pretty soon moved on to Microsoft Web Developer Express which worked so much easier meaning I could merge the use of Windows Explorer, Notepad & IE into one!) its a shame one of those is not advised instead.

The book seemed a bit patronising and really did very little in helping me understand XHTML. I now use W3Schools which has a list of all tags, attributes etc and VWD (as mentioned above) and I am really beginning to understand XHTML. Do yourself a favour and don’t spend money on this and try free internet resources instead

This book is easy to use, but takes you a long way
A beginner will go from nothing to intermediate very quickly. I’ve been working with web pages at work for a year, and decided I needed some better grounding in html
I am using Visual Studio to make web pages and have been doing quite well, but I realized "something was missing" in my knowledge, as I was running into "walls". So I picked up this book. As the author says, "but you will be a much better Web designer--and understand what is going on in Word or FrontPage much better--if you tough it out with Notepad in the beginning.". Visual Studio is great, but I needed to "fill in the holes" in my knowledge of what’ going on underneath and how I can manipulate that.
This book works for learning and also as a reference. I hope this author continues to write other books in this manner - I will be looking for books by her.
It’s what the "Step by Step" books should be like.

The First Step to Learn about Web Design
If you want to learn about web design, the first step is learning HTML and XHTML. The last official version of HTML (4.1) was released in 1999. In January, 2000, the W3C release XHTML. HTML and XHTML are very similar; XHTML uses the stricter syntax of XML.

I have been looking for a book to teach an introductory HTML class. Most books I reviewed were not up-to-date. I really needed a book that did NOT use deprecated tags, that used XHTML syntax, and that introduced cascading style sheets. HTML and XHTML Step-by-Step is the book I have been looking for.

The book is very well-organized with plenty of exercises. The explanations are clear. It’s a great book to teach yourself HTML and XHTML even if you are a completely new to web design.

What is absent is a discussion about cross-browser compatibility. Being a Microsoft Press book, it only addresses IE. If you are using another browser, for example, Firefox, you will find that some of the css code will display differently in other browsers. But this is a basic book and a good web design teacher should be able to point out the differences. There are also a few syntax errors, but they a minimal.

On the whole, this a great book to start with if you are learning about web design.

I absolutely love this book!
Using this book is the way all aspiring web designers or web developers should begin their journey.

HTML is the basis and foundation of everything relating to the web.

This book shows you the basic elements of a web page from a structural standpoint. The HTML code is presented neatly and consisely.

The method they use to help you learn is using Notepad.
Stripped of all WYSIWYG tools (if you don’t know what this means...google it) the user acquires an understanding of what HTML does in regards to presentation and how the browser interprets everything that is written.

The simplicity and straightforward style of the book is greatly appreciated.
I am impressed and will use this book to train students in my web design classes.

The book does suffer from too much simplicity. Once you have gotten HTML under your belt you will want to know more about HTML or find out about other tags that are available.

The next book to add to your library would then be "The Complete Reference HTML & XHTML". This will make you complete in that regard as it also covers CSS and web practices.

Keep in mind that some of the web practices may or may no longer still apply given that the aforementioned reference was written in 2003.

As for the Step by Step HTML & XHTML...I highly recommend it!