This is the eBook version of the printed book. Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today’s HTML and XHTML essentials. You-ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You’ll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you’ll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you’ll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more. Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today’s HTML and XHTML essentials. You?ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You’ll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you’ll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you’ll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

Elizabeth Castro has written all five best-selling editions of HTML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. She is also author of Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide and XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide?both best-sellers! Liz was the technical editor for Peachpit?s The Macintosh Bible, Fifth Edition, and she founded Pagina Uno, a publishing house in Barcelona, Spain.

Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or, in the most economical fashion, you write your own code out in a text file, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide will teach you what you need to know quickly.

The book covers the latest specifications of HTML 4 set by the World Wide Web Consortium, from the most basic tags that place text, images and links on the page to more complex ones that set up tables, frames or forms. New to this fourth edition, the book provides a chapter on debugging, including browser compatibility issues, expanded sections on Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, and CGI scripts for use with forms.

As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, HTML 4 features clear and concise instructions side-by-side with well-captioned illustrations and screenshots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a good reference book for intermediate users who are already familiar with basic HTML but need help with specific topics.

The book also includes extensive and useful appendices. One offers a chart that describes each tag (along with its compatibility with Netscape Navigator and/or Internet Explorer.) Other appendices show the code for special symbols, hexadecimal equivalents for RGB colours and a comparison chart for some of the HTML editors on the market. All in all, this is the perfect desktop reference for Web designers. --Angelynn Grant, Amazon.com

Topics covered: HTML code for creating Web pages, including formatting text, images, links, colours, tables, frames, forms, embedded multimedia clips, cascading style sheets, basic javascript actions like rollovers, finer points like drop caps and page counters, debugging code, browser compatibility issues, publishing pages on the internet, registering with search engines. --Sarah Taylor

It’s important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbing it "XHTML 1.0") and the allowable code will eventually be stricter. Tags that are being phased out are labeled "deprecated"--current browsers can still handle them, but if you want your site to keep up with future browsers, not to mention conform to accessibility requirements, you will want to get on top of XHTML.

Of course, Elizabeth Castro manages to write books that not only speak to those who are already fluent in HTML, but are good for newbies too. She makes it a breeze to create sites that are visually stylish and technically sophisticated without the expense of buying an editor.

Among the topics covered in her new book, HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: using the (relatively newer) structural tags (like doctype and div); correctly using older tags (like p and img) that have been modified in XHTML; writing XHTML so that formatting is done by the style sheets; writing those style sheets (cascading style sheets, a.k.a. "CSS"); creating a variety of layouts; and dealing with tables, frames, forms, multimedia, a bit of JavaScript (including mouseovers), WML (for mobile device displays), debugging, publishing, and publicizing your site.

As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, this one features clear and concise instructions side by side with well-captioned illustrations and screen shots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a great reference.

Also great for reference are the outstanding appendices. The first is an extensive list of tags and attributes, indicating which are deprecated and/or proprietary and on which page they are discussed. A similar appendix shows CSS properties and values; given the future of Web coding, this chart alone is worth the price of the book. Other handy charts cover intrinsic events, symbols and character Unicodes, and an expanded color chart that goes way beyond the virtually archaic Web-safe palette. All of which makes this a definite must-have for every Web designer’s bookshelf. --Angelynn Grant

Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today’s HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You’ll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you’ll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you’ll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

Not What I Expected But Still A Good Book
When I got this book I was looking for a short indept introduction to HTML & CSS. That is not what this book is. If your looking for brief example then this is your book but if you looking to want to really learn HTML & CSS then you might want to look at another book.

Best Resource ever in HTML & CSS
HTML, XHTML & CSS, Sixth Edition is a Visual QuickStart Guide, written by Elizabeth Castro , this book is simply the great HTML and CSS book. It has basically everything you need to know, with easy-to-find what you want, easy-to-understand, and clear descriptions.
Covers HTML layout, forms, controls, text, graphics manipulation, style sheets, and basic Javascript. this is a very useful book. It is full of great tips about each subject, including how different browsers react to different HTML details, bugs in browsers, tips, tricks, and workarounds.
If you are beginner at coding HTML, you`ll find valuable info in this book . If you are interested in XHTML and have HTML this is the best resource .

This is a Must have book!
If you want to learn HTML, XHTML, & CSS this is the book to get. It is easy to understand. You can use the book to actually do something useful. The book gives information on what to use to make your pages work in different browsers and also recommendations on the best way to accomplish a task. I have been using the book to update my web pages. This is a practical approach combing the elements of HTML, XHTML, and CSS. By using the information in this book, your web pages will load fast, be easy to maintain, and work on several browsers.

Overall good value - great reference section....
I don’t like to use a wysiwyg application so this book has been very helpful in that it presents it in a hand coded example. Perfect for what I wanted. Sometimes the format seemed to jump around a bit but overall good examples. I wish it was a little more in depth in explanation or examples. I especially loved the quick reference sections at the back of the book as to reminders of tag usage and color codes. Maybe in a future edition tear out quick reference cards could be included. I recommend this book if you are looking for quick refernce for web page creationHTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)

Great Book-Easy to Follow
Elizabeth Castro has written yet another good book. This book is easy to follow,clear and is printed in full colour, something you don’t often come across in other books. I’d recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the ins and outs of css and xhtml.This is a Great book.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)

Very Good Book
A very good book for beginners.Its not the book that will make you expert but it helps you to understand how the basics of HTML works.Also very well written!

Disappointing :-(
The approach of this book is disappointing. It begins with mostly HTML. While this is useful to a point, it seems kind of a waste of time -- since most people’s primary goal is to learn XHTML. There was also too much emphasis on discussing deprecated tags. The focus on coding disappointed and disengaged me as a reader. I would prefer more focus on design. I do not recomend this book.

Helpful and Easy to follow
This book was easy to follow for a beginner and gave me a good basis to start writing code. It’s also a great go-to guide for when I have questions on a specific topic.

didn’t like the book
I had to buy this book for a class, so had no choice. I do not like the way this book presents information, it is too difficult to find the bits of information you need to code and style html. I have also found contradictions in information presented in this book and the correct coding needed to pass xhtml strict. This book presents information that is poorly organized, and the author is too chatty about his own opinions and thinking in a way that has nothing to do with learning html.

html,xhtml & css book
I find the book very interesting and will come in handy when I start to build my web site. I feel the book is very useful and easy to read. Thank you for selling such a book. Thank you.

Best Buy
This is the perfect book to start with - very clear instructions and explanations, the layout with the examples in the middle is very helpful and the book is written in a conversational and very readable manner.
Great book for a beginner or to reference the basics.

Excellent! Very well written, very simple and organized. I highly recommend this book!
I’m a reasonably computer savvy person. However, I’ve been wanting to develop more marketable skills in design... so, recently I’ve started taking classes in FLASH, ILLUSTRATOR, etc. Then I was told that it would be very beneficial for me to learn HTML and CSS, so, after reading many reviews on Amazon, I bought this book. In a matter of hours, I was designing an XHTML website for myself. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book to entry-level web designers. It is extremely well written and clear. It gives some good foundational background for web design, the differences and purposes of HTML, XHTML, and CSS, and it’s a great resource for all aspects of designing web pages! If you want to break into web design, BUY THIS BOOK!

learning to do HTML for dummies
Ok, I must admit I haven’t even cracked this book. I am relying on everyone else’s reviews that say that it is easy to follow this book. I am not a computer junkie, although I’m not terrible with basic commands on the computer, and I’m not a complete dummy. But boy do I feel like one sometimes, and I’m hoping that when I get a chance, I will learn to do HTML finally. I’d like to create a webpage in the future that will help in future career/hobby endeavours. I’m sure this book will help me out, if it’s as good as everybody says it is.

GREAT resource!!
I am relatively new to coding and this book was just what I needed to get going!! Several of the topics are somewhat beyond me at this time, so I think it would be helpful to non-beginners too! Well written, easy to understand with great examples!

A Great Reference
You will use this book as a constant reference. The Appendices alone are worth the purchase price, making Elizabeth Castro’s straight-forward, practical lessons complete bonus. A great book for coding upstarts as well as seasoned pros looking for a day-to-day reference.

Great for any level
This is an excellent, step by step guide for anyone learning HTML! I use it all the time, great index and easy to follow language. Highly recommend.

Great book for HTML and CSS beginner
I have been a fan of peachpit press for years, and this book has a lot going for it. As a beginner, I was quickly able to establish a foundation that I am building on. I strongly recommend this book to anyone BEFORE they buy a Dreamweaver book. In other words, get comfortable with handcoding html and css before you even think about dreamweaver. There are also excellent sections on organizing a website, attracting visitors, etc.

WARNING: The binding has fallen apart on my book making it a hassle to use. This is an issue that is evidently common with peachpit books. I am in touch with the publisher to get another, and hopefully they will come through.

CONFUSION RUNNING AMOCK
I’m sure that Ms. Castro had the best of intentions when she wrote this book, however, she apparently wrote it from the point of view of a person already experienced in HTML and XHTML and CSS. I get the sense that some of the important instructions have been left out.

The way web design should be taught.
Ok... this book is the last thing I would’ve bought if I had just browsed around the web (that’s the I-already-know-everything talking).

My roomate bought it and the second I started turning the pages I actually told my students to get a copy for class. I got one for myself and even though I have 8 flaming years of experience in web design (note the sarcasm please) I really found every single bit of information extremely valuable.

Elizabeth restructured the way I work in the web and the I-already-know-everything guy recieved his lesson as in the old days.

Simply get a copy. I can’t say much more.

Easy to Understand
Its really excellent book on HTML, XML. People who dont know any thing about the HTML can easyly understand it. Elizabeth Castro explain everthing very deeply in that book. We can recognize this book as perfect book for students.

Good guide with lots of color photo examples
I’m just starting to learn HTML and find this book to be helpful. This book was recommended by my professor as well.

HTML, XHTML, and CSS Guide
This book arrived quick and in new condition. It has been a real help for my class at school this semester (and WAY less expensive than if I had bought it at the school bookstore)...Thanks!

HTML Review
Very good book. Offers very detailed examples which you can write and will work as described. Its divided in sections so you know what to look for. Very great examples which is good for beginners which I am and it seems relatively easy. Would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learnign HTML, XHTML and CSS.

Not great.
This book was "recommended" for a class I was taking at the local JC called web page tips and tricks. It has a few interesting ideas however it condones using deprecated tags such as blockquote, , b, i, and the like. After doing a lot of XHTML and CSS, this is a backward step and I don’t know why it was even recommended for the class as it is really rather out of date.

My book for Intro to Web Design
This is the class text for my Intro to Web Design at the University of Louisville and it’s really a good tool to have when trying to learn the basics of building websites. I use it as a reference between class meetings when I get stuck on a topic. Very easy to understand and pretty straight forward. The language of web design was like Greek to me and this book is helping me understand things a little better.
I would recommend it.

from a very keen newbe to HTML and CSS
I can not recommend this book highly enough. While I am sure the professionals find it’s lay out too simple. IT WAS IDEAL FOR ME! I have had it now 3 weeks and have just published my first web site and it looks good!! Can’t believe it!

Clear concise layout with easy to follow instructions on things that really are complicated. (Trust me I have three other books that make it look like code that only people with degrees in computer science could understand!)

If you can’t get a basic page up and run by the end of this book I strongly recommend you pay someone to do it for you.

It has made me keen enough to perhaps get a book that goes into some of the areas in more detail now that I have the grounding knowledge.

But saying that I still think this book will always be close to hand as a quick reference point for many years to come.....

Difficult read
I’m afraid I have to agree with other reviewers that have criticised the writing style of the author in this book. She seems to be targeting the beginner with an introduction of how the internet and world wide web evolved and what a web page is but then the actual instructions dive right in at a deep end of assumed knowledge. I have some knowledge of computing but am not an expert by any means. I bought this to accompany an evening class I am attending but I am finding it a hard read. Not one for the complete beginner but might work as a useful reference book when I acquire a bit more knowledge.

EXCELLENT!
Elizabeth Castro is an excellent technical writer. HTML for the World Wide Web is easy to read and easy to understand. Anyone who is a beginner to HTML should have this book in their library and/or on their desk for quick and concise learning and reference.

Great Book!
Great reference guide, if you are just beginning it can be confusing but perfect for reference as you learn.

The raw information. Up to you to make sense of it.
OK, I’m not a complete idiot, I taught myself basic html bit by bit in short spurts at my local bookstore without ever buying a book. Now I wanted to start understanding a bit more about XHTML and CSS, so I asked for this book for Christmas.

It has turned out to be one of the worst written ’teach yourself’ books that I have ever read, and by golly, I’ve read a few. What kind of teacher uses jargon in the first chapter of her book to explain more jargon? Instead of using simple examples involving nothing but the elements learned in a given chapter, she introduces code that hasn’t yet been covered as illustration!

One might expect some kind of systematic order in a book this expensive... otherwise, you might as well go to any random techie website (some of which are actually much clearer than this book!) and hope that some reccurent piece of gobbledigook will start making sense after enough repetition. Same experience, a hell of alot cheaper!

The information is there, which is why I give it two stars instead of one, there’s just not way for a novice to access it. ANd if you’re not a novice, then you don’t need this book. I expect a book that anounces itself as ’quickstart for beginners’ to to the teaching for me in layman’s terms, not for me to have to assimilate all the information before being able to start making sense of it for myself and processing it so that it becomes useful. Believe me, try something else. This is poor.

Ju8st started, but satisfied so far
I use this book in school. We just started, but seams promising. Preety detailed. As a beginner, only bad thing I have to say is mix of html, xhtml and scc. Maybe will be easier if all of them are separated(html and xhtml) and after that scc. Anyway, positve review.

Since 14th December 2007 that I purchased this book it has not been delivered as promised.
It is very disappointing and discouraging that since 14th December 2007, that I bought this book and paid for it including posting charges I have not seen the book. The enthusiasm and trust with which I ordered and paid for this book has vanished into the thin air; the program I’m doing that necessitated that book is coming to an end soon, AMAZON! AMAZON!! AMAZON!!! BUT WHY?

Makes good use of your time
It’s hard to believe such a thin book could be so valuable. They only say it once and they say it well. The book is richly cross-referenced and well indexed, so wherever you are, you can page to the right spot for more if you need it. For me, this is the perfect design. I never read a software book front to back. I scan through it to find that one nugget that will get me going again. I’m always learning stuff "that I really don’t have time to learn."

Ms. Castro has written this book especially for that style of use. The writing is concise and you can find your way to the topic you need. The examples are very very good and the author has put special care into how well they commmunicate. My favorite is Llumi the cat, who’s picture becomes a tiger ("what Llumi is thinking") when you mouseover the photo. Very memorable.

I recieved this book about 3 years ago, not knowing anything about html, and I still use it today. I started out wanting to add a couple things to a web page another program made, now I’m thinking about a whole app. interface. In fact I just realized, I’ve finally read the whole thing, one bit at a time. Yes, you can read it chapter by chapter and it flows well. But if you’re like me, you’ll love the way you can find the relevant part, learn what you need to and move on.

Overall, this book is good for beginners and is a good basic reference. It sticks tightly to it’s subject, so it doesn’t teach Javascript or CGI, other than to explain where they fit in. It makes great use of your time because of the clear concise writing, excellent examples, experience of the author, and rich cross-referencing throughout the book.

I’m now in a spot where "I don’t have time to learn" ... CGI. So I’m visiting Amazon looking for a CGI book by Elizabeth Castro based on my experience with this book.

good book for beginner, like me
Although not every page of material is useful for me, it is a good and easy book to learn html. Author also has her own opinion from time to time. CSS is popular and the mainstream, yet traditional style tags are still useful.
Also, I won’t buy it if it isn’t a good book which got tons of good reviews already, so don’t need to say more.
One thing I am not aware of before is, for the input data, we will need php to process the data, which is another big topic. I am quite disappointed at this, since I do want to play with input data on site.

Not for the beginner
It staggers me that this book has received high ratings from so many people. Good luck if you’re a beginner trying to learn HTML and CSS from this book. Before you even see so much as one HTML tag, the author leaps in to talking about the W3C, cross browser issues, HTML extensions, the web standards project, CSS workarounds, XML, markup languages, is XHTML dangerous, the difference between serving a page as XML or XHTML, text content, the identical properties of XHTML and HTML (just in case you’re wondering, no, we still haven’t seen a working example of a HTML tag yet, and we are now on page 27), elements, attributes, values, elements containing other elements, empty elements, tags, hex colors...

OK! Now we have seen our first few tags. But oops.. rather than receiving a proper introduction, the tags shown are merely displayed in side columns, to assist in making points about "attribute pair values" and layout.

And so on we go hearing about Uniform Resource Locators, block vs inline, parents and children (still no proper introduction to our first tag), plug ins, helper applications, file names, absolute and relative urls, web accessibility... and on to page 40 which gives theory about DOCTYPES, standards and quirks mode.. now here’s some theory about building web pages for an intended audience, saving web pages, creating default pages, editing and organisng files (page 52, still haven’t seen our first tag), how to get web design inspiration, more on DOCTYPEs, character encoding, the HTML and HEAD tags.. what’s this?! Oh my gosh! Page 58 and finally the HTML tags start getting introduced!

I’m sorry, but this is garbage. If I don’t have a solid, working understanding of HTML (which I don’t, hence why I bought this so called guide to "learn" XHTML and CSS), then there is NO WAY I am going to have the *FAINTEST CLUE* what the author is talking about in those first 58 pages. NONE.

Here is something along the lines of what I was hoping to see, perhaps no later than about page 3:

Type this in to your text editor, and save it as myfirstpage.html:

Hey! This is my first web page!

Now view it in your web browser. Now put some

tags around it (explain what a tag is, and what h1 means), now save again, and view in your web browser. See how the text has now become more enlarged and prominent? That’s because the web browser can see the

tags around your text, so is now displaying your text as a heading.

THAT is how you introduce someone to HTML.

In summary:

If you’re a beginner, stay as far away as you possibly can from this book. It will probably turn you off trying to learn HTML and CSS.

For the intermediates, the best this book will do is act as an occasional reference for ideas you already have some knowledge of. It is only for this reason that the book was saved from receiving a 1 star rating from me.

Awful
ALthough I have voted Mr Fulcher’s review as helpful I feel it is utterly necessary to formally register my complete and undeviating agreement with what he has written. I can add no more than say that this book as about as helpful as a spoon is in shifting a pile of rotten manure.

Possibly the most badly written text book in the world
This is the most badly written text book I have ever tried to read. It is possible that the author, Elizabeth Castro, may know her subject but she is unfortunately incapable of conveying information in a straightforward and logical manner. The first four pages of chapter 1 read as gibberish. I am amazed that her publishing house has not taken her to task.

I was initially baffled as to why favourable reviews of this book exist but the 75 or so reviews published on this Amazon site date back nearly ten years to 1998 and very few of them pertain to recent editions of this book.

I cannot sell this book second hand or even give it away with a clear conscience because it is so appalling.

I recommend instead "CSS The Missing Manual" by David Sawyer McFarland. It is very well written. Information is imparted with clarity, logic and the style remains friendly. I am grateful to another reviewer (who also found Castro’s book unsatisfactory) for steering me towards it.

Great basic tutorial/reference book
I already had some basic HTML knowledge before buying this book but not enough to build a full website. After a couple of evenings with the book I have a basic working site using XHTML and CSS.

After the first couple of chapters I found the best way to use the book was to start building a webpage and refer back to the book as and when you need it. The book is really well laid out for this kind of use with a great index and handy features such as the colour chart inside the rear cover. This feels like a book you would keep using for years.

The book does only take you so far, you will have to buy more books, play around on the web and experiment to build a really fancy site but as a good solid intro I can’t recommend it highly enough.

HTML, XHTML & CSS by Elizabeth Castro
This text is well written and very helpful. The problem with it is that I had difficulty seeing the type. I would be better for me if the type was a dark black.

Great Resource for the Bookcase
This is a great book, highly resourceful and useful to have around. I didn’t read it cover-to-cover (but plan to eventually) but it’s a good read and a great introduction. It’s written to be quick and easy to pickup with lots of sidebars of extra information which is much appreciated.

Good beginners book for those new to web design
I purchased this book I believe about two years ago when I decided that I wanted to learn about web design. I had good previous experiences with Peachpit Press in particular their Visual Quickstart books so I naturally looked for an HTML book from this series. Fast forward till now and I’ve been able to create a few interesting web pages from what I’ve learned and certainly HTML For the World Wide Web was certainly a good start. My impression of Ms. Castro is that she is one of those rare people who are not only good at their subject matter but also very competent in effectively teaching it to people from different levels of experience.

Please note though that as I said its a good book for beginners but you’ll quickly outgrow it once you get a feel for the basics. I recommend that you purchase, "CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions" within three months from when you begin reading this book. My analogy of these two books are this: Ms. Castro’s book is a course in using all of the tools in the carpentry shop and doing small projects. The CSS Mastery book is like then taking an apprenticeship under a master carpenter to build some really nice things with the basic skills that you previously acquired.

Bit of a let down
I found the book a little confusing and hard to follow to be honest, particularly in relation to CSS. Would prefer to see more full length examples rather than little code snippets here and there which I found confused things even more. Good enough as quick reference guide but wouldn’t recommend for a beginner.

Very Poor Binding! Great book, but falling apart.
My NEW book fell apart! I was studying it flat on the table, and it split right down the binding, top to bottom. Now the pages are falling out! Arggghhhhhhh.
This is the BEST book I’ve seen on XHTML & CSS. I refer to constantly (and carefully), while studying another class-required "dummies" textbook (that drives me up the freaking wall). I can’t think of one instance where I’ve not found exactly what I needed to know, within seconds. I’m very happy with the content of the book! The binding sucks! I tried to email Peachpit to let them know, but they don’t have any contact info on their page. :o(

Book Review
This book was a helpful tool in a class I was taking on-line. In fact, it was the designated textbook for the class. I am not sure it is the best book for total beginners like me in some cases. Having said that, however, I was able to follow the instructions in the book on certain subjects and get a web page up and running. I feel sure I will refer to this book for years to come for assistance.