I cannot recommend this book. The chapters pace the information too fast. The tutorials are easy to follow, but do a poor job of explaining what is going on.

If you already know html, this book will be okay. If you don't know html, find another book.

I purchased this book for an HTML class I am currently enrolled in. This book has been so helpful in helping understand the HTML code behind web pages. The book was also cheaper through Amazon than the book store (I always look at Amazon price first. In most cases Amazon was cheaper). This is good for the intermediate HTML class as well. The tutorials are very descriptive and explained thoroughly. Very easy book to follow for trouble shooting issues as well. I would highly recommend it for all people who are new to HTML code as well as seasoned HTML users as a great reference manual.

This book is awesome if you want to learn HTML. It is explicit and easy to understand and walks you through step by step. Even a novice with no HTML experience can easily understand. I would highly recommend this book.

Do your students a favor and skip this book which is too long, too wordy, and has case studies that the students would be hard-pressed to recreate on their own.

This was a required textbook for a XHTML class I am taking at a local community college. I have been very impressed with this book in teaching the elementary art of correct coding. Also helpful are the appendices at the end outlining colors, elements, etc. I have learned a lot from it.

This text has many errors and it is difficult to read. The examples are so complicated it would be nearly impossible for someone just starting out to recreate them on their own.

I gave this book a 3 star rating because; I had some problems with it.

Some of the problems I found were in:

Tutorial 5 on Frames, the lesson was too vague to apply to the teacher's assignment to do our own frameset.

Tutorial 6 on Forms, the lesson was so difficult to get through, my teacher needed to verify the code order using the teacher's version.

Even though parts of this book were helpful, I would search for other options.

Good Luck, Everyone.

I gave this book a 3 star rating because; I had some problems with it.

Some of the problems I found were in:

Tutorial 5 on Frames, the lesson was too vague to apply to the teacher's assignment to do our own frameset.

Tutorial 6 on Forms, the lesson was so difficult to get through, my teacher needed to verify the code order using the teacher's version.

Even though parts of this book were helpful, I would search for other options.

Good Luck, Everyone.

We used this textbook for our first Web Development Class at College and I found it to be very good. I liked doing the tutorials as I read the chapter, and the cases were challenging (but not impossible). The cases are well thought-out and utilize the basics learned in the chapter. It also builds on the previous knowledge. This book would also be appropriate for a high school student -- or anyone who wants to learn a the basics of HTML. I will note that some of the syntax and tags they use are deprecated, but it is pretty current in this fast paced cyber world.

We used this textbook for our first Web Development Class at College and I found it to be very good. I liked doing the tutorials as I read the chapter, and the cases were challenging (but not impossible). The cases are well thought-out and utilize the basics learned in the chapter. It also builds on the previous knowledge. This book would also be appropriate for a high school student -- or anyone who wants to learn a the basics of HTML. I will note that some of the syntax and tags they use are deprecated, but it is pretty current in this fast paced cyber world.

I found this book to be well written as a relative HTML novice and it was comprehensive enough (hence the title) in scope. I thought the projects and exercises were all well thought out. I especially appreciated that they gave a layout reference for all coding during the tutorials to make sure it was written and placed properly. They even gave a set of review-question answers keys at the end of each chapter which was useful for double checking your knowledge.

I would recommend this to anyone thinking of getting into Web Design.

The tutorial sections were easy to follow, but the case problems were sometimes hard to understand.

The tutorial sections were easy to follow, but the case problems were sometimes hard to understand.

Not much to say, I needed this book for an HTML class that I am taking. That being said it is a good book for beginers, if one runs through the tutorials one should be able to build a web page.

This book contains a solid set of tutorial based instruction for learning the basics of HTML. You need no prior Web experience to make sense out of this material though any you have might allow you more freedom to skip around to the most relevant parts. There is also a new companion set of videos (sold separately) that demonstrate how to build Web pages (ISBN 1-4188-3938-8), available from the publisher.

This book does contain useful information, but you could probably learn just as easily by looking at teaching aids online. Also my teacher is very dissapointed in the book for it's lack of diferentiation between html and xhtml styles. It combines them quite often and makes it difficult for someone who is trying to learn new style code instead of depreciated code.

Also the layout of the book is terrible. There are lines all over the page that do nothing but distract the reader. Apparently white space wasn't good enough for this author.