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.
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.
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.
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.