Creating beautifully coded HTML Web pages that perform predictably and consistently across all browsers and platforms can be a daunting task, but best-selling author Elizabeth Castro knows that most readers don’t need an encyclopedic reference, just simple instructions for creating their first Web page. This compact guide delivers! Rather than explaining every tag and option, she demonstrates the quickest, easiest, smartest route to creating that first Web page. Each short section walks readers through the construction of a single phase or component, so they learn how to plan a site, prepare Web images, insert links and graphics, and publish their finished pages to the Web. Project-based, step-by-step instructions and large, full-color screen shots make the information instantly accessible, and the author’s clear, straightforward style takes the reader from a standing start to finished site quickly and easily.

Creating beautifully coded HTML Web pages that perform predictably and consistently across all browsers and platforms can be a daunting task, but best-selling author Elizabeth Castro knows that most readers don’t need an encyclopedic reference, just simple instructions for creating their first Web page. This compact guide delivers! Rather than explaining every tag and option, she demonstrates the quickest, easiest, smartest route to creating that first Web page. Each short section walks readers through the construction of a single phase or component, so they learn how to plan a site, prepare Web images, insert links and graphics, and publish their finished pages to the Web. Project-based, step-by-step instructions and large, full-color screen shots make the information instantly accessible, and the author’s clear, straightforward style takes the reader from a standing start to finished site quickly and easily.

Not helpful for the newbie
Bought this book for a person who wanted to learn how to make simple web pages and it was a bad choice. New users benefit most from straight forward instructions and limited toolsets. This book imagines the user to be familar with (and own) photoshop as well as other tools. It would be much simpiler if the author stuck with simple, freely available tools.

If your going to get this book, get the series
This is a wonderful book that allows you to execute and learn good habits instead of walking you down a tutorial path. Its a quick read and excellent reference for basic tasks.

If you do want to buy this book, consider getting the series.

Web Page Visual QuickProject Guide Colletion (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Castro (Author)

The series was rewritten in 2006 and has the corrections to the errors in the 2004 books of the same name.

The series has the HTML quickproject, Flash quickproject, and Dreamweaver quickproject. Flash and Dreamweaver are MX 2004 based but happen to have the same commands and keyboard shortcuts as the CS3 and 8 versions.

Dont make the same mistake I almost made and buy this individually. I paid $1 and got it all! Its was cheaper and I obtained two other books.

Great!
I have been messing around for a year(!) trying various WYSIWYG software to create the simple website that I wanted. The software was much harder to master than was HTML as Elizabeth Castro explains it. I first did the projects in this book, then with the help of her HTML, XHTML & CSS book, I have finally been able to make the site I’ve had in my head for so long. If you are using a PC, I have one suggestion--use Notepad instead of Word to create your web pages, because it’s harder to mess up on Notepad. Three cheers for Elizabeth!

Creating A Web Page
I have other books by Liz Castro, and she continues to make life easier for all of us who want to know more about coding and controlling our own web sites. Great introductory book on XHMTL and CSS.

Craating A Web Page with HTML
Excellent book for anyone who is creating their first web page or who wants step by step help to make a web page.

Creating A Web Page with HTML
Well written, well illistrated. Even as new to html as I am it is an easy step by step guide to building a web page that even I can do.

A short, fun way to get a web page done
This book is definitely for beginners, but then that’s the whole point. The author starts out with the very basics showing you how to design a web page, telling you how you’re going to do it and then taking you through all the steps one-by-one. There’s a brief introduction to html and using css and then she jumps right in getting you to create a wep page.

There’s lots of illustrations, and the html text and the css text are color coded so you know exactly where the author is at when giving instructions. It’s a short book, only about 125 pages, but packed full of useful tips that only we *newbies* to web design can truly appreciate. At the end of the book is information on hosting, transfering files to the server and just some basics on getting started.

The book only has you format two pages, but explains how to tweak this and tweak that using css. They’re good, solid pages that just might survive the wrath of most browsers. You should have enough info to format more pages if you need them. I used my own images and have to admit that my pages looked just as good as the ones in the book.

There is a somewhat lengthy section on formatting photos with Photoshop which I couldn’t use as I don’t have Photoshop, but the information clearly comes across that you do need to rework those photos to avoid lengthy download times.

This would be a good beginner guide for someone wanting to put together some pages on their family, kid’s softball team, vacation pixs, a short sight-seeing excursion, etc.

Again, this is definitely for beginniners and remember that it doesn’t begin to cover all aspects of html, css or page design, but it gives you the opportunity to turn something out that looks nice without getting too bogged down.

I’m glad I bought the book as it certainly accomplishes what it set out to do. Besides, where else can you get an afternoon of creativity, have something to show for it and only spend $10.00?

Just What You Need To Make A Simple HTML Website
If you want a book that can show you how to create a simple HTML website quickly and without the distraction of long explanations of HTML code, this is a good book for you. The author, Elizabeth Castro, walks you step-by-step through the two webpage project that is the focus of her book. By using easy to follow instructions and illustrations, Castro gives you the basic knowledge you need to create this simple website.

So what exactly will this book help you accomplish? You will make two HTML webpages and accompanying Cascading Style Sheets (standard for formatting webpages). This two page website will have a home page and one inner page. From just these two webpages you can go on to create an entire website by creating any number of inner pages.

Castro begins by telling you what you will need to complete the project and then she jumps right in with the bare bones HTML webpage. She then starts to add the images and text that are the main focus of the book. She first shows you how to add a simple image to the webpage and how to make a navigation bar from a few small images. She then shows how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position this navigation bar on the webpage and control the appearance of the navigation links.

Castro then moves on to demonstrate CSS more thoroughly. She starts with formatting and positioning text on a webpage. She then shows how to divide a webpage into sections and how to control the position and appearance of each section with the CSS.

Once you have completed your two webpages, you are ready to publish to the web. Castro discusses hosting your site and FTP software for transferring your webpage onto the web.

Castro has included some useful charts at the end of the book which contain the HTML and CSS code used in the project, HTML color and special character codes. You can find more helpful information and download the project files and images used in this book from the accompanying website, cookwood.com.

Castro has also written many of the Visual QuickStart Guide books for Peachpit Press.

Rocket ride into HTML
This is a rocket ride of a book. It stars with Textpad, then flies into Photoshop, then back into Textpad for a quick ride through the basics of HTML and CSS. There is some reference at the end, but frankly it’s too little too late. The back of the book exhorts that you don’t have to know everything to get your job done, and while that may apply to other fields like Powerpoint or Word, it doesn’t work here. You need to understand the fundamentals of HTML if you want to go past the examples shown here.

For a complete introduction starting with the fundamentals I recommend O’Reilly’s excellent HTML & XHTML : The Definitive Guide.

This Book Is Awesome
I do enjoy this book. I am using the website that the book gives you and wow. Some stuff I never knew until I opened this book. If you are intrested in Web Page’s and under the cover (hood) books, This a book for you.

Gorgeous and good
I’m already a fan of Elizabth’s Castro’s books, but I got this one to give to a friend who needed a quick start, and I have to say it’s truly wonderful.

A very good source of the basics in a very straightforward presentation, and the design is gorgeous as well.

More than worth the money.