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Learn to Code HTML and CSS: Develop and Style Websites
HTML and CSS can be a little daunting at first but fear not. This book, based on Shay Howe's popular workshop covers the basics and breaks down the barrier to entry, showing readers how they can start using HTML and CSS through practical techniques today. They'll find accompanying code examples online, while they explore topics such as the different structures of HTML and CSS, and common terms. After establishing a basic understanding of HTML and CSS a deeper dive is taken into the box model and how to work with floats. The book includes an exercise focused on cleaning up a web page by improving the user interface and design, solely using HTML and CSS. With a few quick changes the web page changes shape and comes to life. Interactive, technically up-to-the-minute and easy-to-understand, this book will advance a student's skills to a professional level.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 9, 2013
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December 30, 2017
fight me nerds. this is a book. I read it. it took up so many hours I could've been reading geronimo stilton. it was also really good, even just as an introduction to legitimately thinking about clean code & accessibility standards. I need to spruce my pages up.
October 16, 2014
This is a review for the online tutorials on which this book is based. It's unclear to me how different the book is from the online tutorials, but the latter are GREAT. Extremely thorough, clear, and helpful - with tons of great resources elsewhere. I've bookmarked this for future use, since it really is incredibly helpful and I'll probably want to refer back to some of the lessons as I move forward. It's really exciting to see the sample website come alive - especially once we add our first CSS stuff! *happy sigh*
Edited to add: Props also to the Bocoup people, from whom I found my way - via recommendations within recommendations - to this resource.
Edited to add: Props also to the Bocoup people, from whom I found my way - via recommendations within recommendations - to this resource.
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July 5, 2016Very Helpful !
February 5, 2018
Learn to Code HTML and CSS: Develop and Style Websites is exactly what it says on the tin: a book that teaches you how to craft websites with HTML/CSS. In terms of content, it's not that much different from Shay Howe's site, but it's a nicely condensed version of the same content - and one that you can take with you offline.
What this book does a great job of (and why I prefer it to Duckett's HTML and CSS book), is that the content is relevant and updated, provides a lot of useful tips for beginners, and focuses on best practices and semantic markup. It doesn't gloss over the important of HTML5 semantic elements, and it gives one of the better overviews of it in my opinion (ex: actually describing the difference between vs instead of saying 'use ').
Will update this review further once I finish the book, but at the moment I can stay it's a good, comprehensive overview of HTML & CSS. And for the most part, it boils down to the basics enough that most of the information hasn't become outdated.
What this book does a great job of (and why I prefer it to Duckett's HTML and CSS book), is that the content is relevant and updated, provides a lot of useful tips for beginners, and focuses on best practices and semantic markup. It doesn't gloss over the important of HTML5 semantic elements, and it gives one of the better overviews of it in my opinion (ex: actually describing the difference between vs instead of saying 'use ').
Will update this review further once I finish the book, but at the moment I can stay it's a good, comprehensive overview of HTML & CSS. And for the most part, it boils down to the basics enough that most of the information hasn't become outdated.
February 27, 2018
help you in understand to learning code.
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December 13, 2021
The first web design book I finished. Good for beginners!
January 20, 2023
I like the way Shay presented the material. I also like the fact that it was a project-based.
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October 21, 2016This book good anyone wants to understand CSS3 especially for noobs
May 3, 2017
The best part about this book is that it's available online for free!
The lessons are clear and easy to follow.
One thing I would like to see is a chapter on workflow. Going through the book I wasn't sure what the best way to plan out a website is. Content first, then structure, then style, or should you plan them all together? As I was working on my own site, I found myself switching between those aspects more than I should have because I didn't have a plan from the outset. Maybe it would have helped to sketch something out at the beginning. I'm still not sure what the best way to go about it is.
The lessons are clear and easy to follow.
One thing I would like to see is a chapter on workflow. Going through the book I wasn't sure what the best way to plan out a website is. Content first, then structure, then style, or should you plan them all together? As I was working on my own site, I found myself switching between those aspects more than I should have because I didn't have a plan from the outset. Maybe it would have helped to sketch something out at the beginning. I'm still not sure what the best way to go about it is.
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