HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Elizabeth Castro, Bruce Hyslop

Need to learn HTML and CSS 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 updated edition author Bruce Hyslop uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and CSS essentials. The book has been refreshed to feature current web design best practices. You'll learn how to design, structure, and format your website. You'll learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5. You'll create and use images, links, styles, and forms; and you'll add video, audio, and other multimedia to your site. You'll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3. You'll understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today's best practices. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the web. Throughout the book, the author covers all of HTML and offers essential coverage of HTML5 and CSS techniques.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Coding, School

576 pages, Paperback

Published August 9, 2013

About the author

Studied Spanish, Catalan, and Basque at University of Pennsylvania and University of California at Berkeley. Moved to Barcelona in 1987, found job in computer company translating documentation and software. Started Página Uno in 1990: publisher of Mac related books in Spanish. Moved back to US in 1993 to edit 5th edition of The Macintosh Bible. Wrote first edition of HTML Visual QuickStart Guide in 1995, now worldwide bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold in many languages. Also written books on Perl/CGI, XML, Blogger, iPhoto.

Most recently, wrote EPUB Straight to the Point, and accompanying miniguides, to help people publish ebook versions of their books.

Reviews

[Rachel Aranda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book for my Fall 2017 semester at university and I'm so glad I did instead of renting it. I love that it provides a site where a person could download the examples in the book. This allowed me to try the examples out as I read along. If it were not for this book I doubt I would have been able to do my assignments. I was not only provided downloadable examples but also step-by-step instructions. It felt like I knew what I was doing and what the code actually did as I built the examples and worked on assignments. Even if I had a question I was able to look in the book for an answer. The few times I didn't find an answer I looked at w3schools.com as they have information about HTML and CSS like the book.

If you are a beginner, novice, or just need a refresher then this book is for you! I highly recommend it and I'm very selective about textbooks I recommend.

[Dr. T Loves Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great introduction to HTML and CSS - full of clear explanations, illustrations, and screen shots to help noobs (like me) make sense of web design coding.

[Kërry · Rating 3 out of 5]

As good as a book on this topic could be. My style of tech learning is more hands-on than this, though, and I needed to follow the readings with tutorials on w3schools to make sense of it.

[Tyson Stewart · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read it for school. The content was easy enough to understand. I would have given it 2.5 stars.

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[Libby Ingram · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loads of screen shots and specific directions make this a very useful book.