On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, David Gardi wrote:
> Hi,
> Please excuse this non-Linux related post.
I added the [OT] that is the common way to indicate that you
post is off topic. This let's people who don't want to read
off topic posts filter them out.
> I am planning to purchase an HTML book that provides
> good, indepth explanations of how to use HTML.
I have a number of them, so maybe I can help. <G>
> I am undecided on these two books
>
> 1) "HTML 4 for the World Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro
> 2) "HTML: the Complete Reference" Third Edition by Thomas A. Powell
Both excellant books.
> After having skimmed through the table of contents,
> the second option seems too gory in the details,
#2, like "The HTML Bible" (another good one, by the way), is
intended primarily as a reference book.
> whilst the first contains interesting topics that second
> doesn't seem to have.
Liz's book is intended for the beginner, and contains a
little more than just HTML. It is an actual teaching book.
In fact, when I taught an HTML class a while back, that was
the book I used as textbook.
> What I don't want to end up with is a book that has too
> little information, or a book that has large amounts of
> unpleasing to the eye information scattered all over the
> place and uses tags rather than English to get the point
> accross.
> Does anyone own these books?
> comments and/or suggestions would be great.
My suggestion would be for you to get both of them, if you
can afford it, and use #1 to *LEARN* HTML and #2 as a
secondary reference. If you can't do that, then definitely
go with book# 1.
HTH
SJS
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