| Book by Category | |  | Business & Culture | Home » » HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS | | | | | | | Description: | | For readers who want to design Web pages that load quickly, are easy to update, accessible to all, work on all browsers and can be quickly adapted to different media, this comprehensive guide represents the best way to go about it. By focusing on the ways the two languages--XHTML and CSS--complement each other, Web design pro Patrick Griffiths provides the fastest, most efficient way of accomplishing specific Web design tasks. With Web standards best practices at its heart, it outlines how to do things the right way from the outset, resulting in highly optimized web pages, in a quicker, easier, less painful way than users could hope for! Split into 10 easy-to-follow chapters such as Text, Images, Layout, Lists, and Forms, and coupled with handy quick-reference XHTML tag and CSS property appendixes, HTML Dog is the perfect guide and companion for anyone wanting to master these languages. Readers can also see the lessons in action with more than 70 online examples constructed especially for the book. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780321311399
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Patrick Griffiths | | Paperback:
| 368 pages | | Publisher:
| New Riders Press | | Publication Date:
| December 02, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0321311396 | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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 had higher expectationsJan 24, 2010
I was disappointed. 3 stars.
The content of this book is good, not great. I think the author should cut the lengthy explanations and arguments short. Feed us the beef please. But he knows what he is doing and the external resources (especially the author's website) are very helpful.
The book introduces the concepts of content structuring and then content presentation. Every chapter (save the first one) follows the pattern: structure, then presentation.
Was there a full CSS 2.1 reference?? a full XHTML1.1 reference (ok the author gave an excuse, saying he removed the tags that were not really structuring tags, but rather presentation ones)?? Because if there were, I wouldn't have gave this book 3 stars.
You see, I got this book because of the appendices. I don't like to have to find my way through Google search results (most of them which got on the first page by using marketing and SEO tricks anyway...). So I thought this book was the deal. I was wrong.
I still had to ask my friend Google questions like "how precisely are the values set for the background-position property?" The author did not bother explaining that or point to where you should find that.
This book is too superficial, just like a tutorial.
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 Beginner book but very goodNov 24, 2009
This is a great book for beginning HTML and CSS quick and easy to read also with an accompanying website. I find myself referring to it all the time. I've read it in full 3 times now just for heck of it. I really would also recommend the "Head First" titles. I swear by those to start learning in a particular subject.
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Not for a beginnerFeb 19, 2009
This book serves as a great reference, but if you don't know what css and xhtml is leave this book alone. The book only has about 100 pages of material. He goes through the differnt aspects of xhtml and css, but if you have never heard what he is talking about its very hard to understand. I would say this book is meant as a reference NOT!! a leraning guide.
0 of 6 found the following review helpful:
fast and easyAug 31, 2008
thank you very much. delivery made in very short time, used book in excellent conditions.
great,
thank you
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Best Practice XHTML & CSS Jun 28, 2008
A well thought out book, easy to read and understand without knowing HTML or CSS. This is one of those book you cannot trash but only keep in your packet.
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