Peachpit Press Publications HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide

Just received my very good used copy today - perfect condition! More importantly, the content is so understandable and well presented. The paper quality and print size are also excellent. I love E. Castro’s books - so well written!

Wonderful!

Great for beginners! I know a bit HTML and very little CSS but this book guides me to more professional level with the printed version and online source. There is plenty of nice things to read, if you like to build up a website not using website-builder. After people finish this book, that's probably time to go with javascript.Good:well-organized content structureterms explanation pagese-version which you can downloadonline source contains html and css codeAlso, do not buy any book explains just simple concept of html and css, as this really won't help you build up a real site!

The authors are deeply knowledgeable and the book's learning path is well designed. I found it extraordinarily useful to have the digital version included in the deal - I could read it on my iPad in Starbucks and make notes. I could also have it open on my iMac in my study, right next to my Dreamweaver windows. The writers' (there are two of them) tone is graceful and intelligent, but not overly familiar (an unfortunate trend in some of the "Missing Manual" series). The writers threw in enough humor to keep the text readable, but they remembered that I bought the tool as a professional resource and have limited time for pleasantries. In sum, I felt like I was in good hands.This book gives you a lot of value for your money. Originally, I rated it as a 4, because there are three flaws persistent enough to draw attention:1) There are some knots in the writing - a few places where the writers' prose becomes opaque and a second and third reading of the paragraph in question still did not yield the sense. (A visit from a stern editor would fix this in a jiffy.)2) The graphic convention used to link images and text doesn't quite work. It consists of labeling the illustrations with very small circles with letters in them, which are then referenced in the text by an even smaller circles containing letters. The tiny tags are hard to read and keep track of, especially when a particular page can get up to "k" in the alphabet. This technique makes conversion to a flowing eBook easy, but it makes scanning the print version a bit of a challenge. This is, primarily, a graphic problem, and there is enough white space in the print version to fix it.3) There are references to other discussions in the print version that do not contain page references. Understandable in the eBook version, but they should have been present in the hardcopy edition.I feel guilty listing these flaws. I'm a writer myself, and I know the scale of what the authors have accomplished. That's why, in the end, I had to give this book a 5. The book's subject matter is vast, and the authors must present it in the broad view, while at the same time feeding their readers the fine-grain detail that makes HTML and CSS work. They have succeeded brilliantly. In the end, I decided it would have been churlish to give this a 4, given the mountains of solid information the authors have passed along to their readers.

Ho preferito la versione in inglese perché a colori, meglio impaginata e ad un costo inferiore rispetto a quella italiana.Nonostante i giudizi su Amazon.com per questo manuale fossero molto alti, io l'ho trovato eccessivamente prolisso, soprattutto per quanto riguarda l'HTML. La materia poteva essere trattata molto più sinteticamente ed in maniera altrettanto efficace.Ciò nonostante è un buon manuale e comprende anche tutto il codice relativo agli argomenti trattati, scaricabile dal sito dell'editore.