HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites 1st Edition

I absolutely loved this book, so well-written and and such a nice print. I have decent amount of experience with other programming/scripting languages but I was a complete beginner in web development with zero knowledge of html and css. This book was an excellent start for learning both.The only small issue is that it was written when html5 was under development and although it covers many of the html5 features, the core of the book is not html5, especially with extensively covering subjects like flash videos. That is why an update would help a lot.Having said all that, if I want to recommend a book for html and css, it would be definitely 100% this book. You can build your base knowledge with this and it does a great job at that, and later you will be able to extend your knowledge with many other available ways.

I got this book a few days ago, I like it! I have no reason to give anything below 5 stars. I am satisfied with it for a few reasons which I’ll list here.To the people buying this book READ THIS!This book requires no previous knowledge to understand it. Though it’s worth noting that it goes a bit fast on some pages. If you have a terrible memory and need tons of examples on 1 thing, I’d go with the head first guide to HTML CSS & XHTML. That book goes over everything at a LOT slower pace. I read that book before this one and I still found things I didn’t know about HTML and CSS. I have been programming for a few months now and I’ve learned a ton of helpful things from this book that I never knew before, which is cool. The book had 50-star quality! I bought my book new due to the complaints of people getting broken books. The new book option is worth it if you are a person that hates even the slightest dent in your book. If you don’t care about the condition and only want the knowledge then used is good too.The book is easy to read with examples that are labeled clearly. They give you a start code and an end code, both showing the start and end of the code and page to see where your at. Good colors in my opinion! Very informative and REALLY good for the price from what I’ve seen! So yeah, I‘ve enjoyed the book so far and I’m on page 200 or so. I just bought the JavaScript version of this book it’s coming tomorrow! 5 stars. Good for beginners. It goes over the most important stuff plus extra, you’ll definitely be able to write a few lines of code after reading and have a good understanding of the language.

Guys I had a basic understanding of html and css when I bought this book. And guess what, I was blown away by the contents. There was soooo much new stuff in this book that I didn't find on youtube tutorials. Trust me...if you want to start web designing carrier here is the base that you should step on. The writer had put so much effort on it. It is colorful and detailed. For me the best thing was there was NO JUNK on it. Straight to the point. No zigzag and crapy stuff. This is how all books should be made. Thank you Jon. And please write some more on advanced levels. jQuery, Java-Script, github, Backbone Js, Angular JS, Unit testing....all you can cover. And please stick to the easyness and straight to the point. God bless

I am teaching myself Front-End Web Development and this book is one that has helped ALOT to understand some of the HTML and CSS principles better. I only have about 3 months of experience and have the ability to build a static webpage and currently working towards making dynamic ones hopefully by the end of the year or next. If you are a beginner then I would suggest this book. I got it in yesterday and already have read through 7 chapters of the book taking notes and applying everything I am learning. Not to mention that the book is extremely easy to read with diagrams and examples compared to other books I have seen where it is plain text on a page with an example.

Excellent book for any skill-level, but essential to all beginners! The content is laid out in a very fun fashionable way that will hold the reader's interest. The content is clear, concise and well-ordered. I once believed that once you've seen one HTML+CSS book, you've seen them all, but this one is truly one of a kind. The paper quality and design is bar-none a graphical artist's dream.HOWEVER...The build quality. Upon first time cracking this book open, you will feel how stiff and sensitive the binding is. I am very afraid to press down on the spine to get the book to lay down more flat to make reading words closer to inside the page simple. Judging by other reviewers, my fear is truly founded. But for now, all is intact. Will update if there are any changes to this current event...[update, 2019]Rather late, but this is something that I feel is worth mention & may help others:My copy is still intact (paperback) with no loose pages. Same goes for my hardback copy of the JS/SQ companion text. Both have been well-used during my autodidactic journey. The style-system Duckett has created here is what sets this text series apart from all other books I've read and own.I still recommend this book, however, there is no such thing as "the perfect technical book." I feel there are a few crucial lessons missing from this text: a chapter on media queries (mobile-first approach) and a decent overview of a couple CSS frameworks. While Duckett does introduce the ability to control min- and max- widths, and he offers a section on liquid layouts, mobile-first responsive pages are, more or less, the standard of today. This is not a complaint, whatsoever, but just something I felt it lacked and could use in a later edition, perhaps.STILL A 5-STAR RECOMMENDATION IN AUG. 2019!

Ok, this WAS a good book. Key word, “was” its got out dated information. This may have once been a good book, but it’s not right now, and should be avoided. I mean released in 2010-2011, it makes sense to be outdated. Don’t trust Amazon best sellers, it’s not a good book to learn html and css today. You can get better and more for less.

This book is a gem! I was looking for a book that would help me decipher the world of HTML and CSS in a less jumbled up way than the things I’d found on the internet. I had heard a few good things about this book over at the Rapidweaver forum so decided to give it a go.It’s a great book this with simple layouts and information is presented in a way that is easily digestible, easily understandable and works through at a pace that is not overwhelming. Before you know it you’ll have pages up and running and shifting things around on the screen.A great book that is a fabulous learning tools both informationally and visually and is now a book that my son is using to help him with his IT school lessons on web design.

I am building 2 websites for charities and I need to customise one of them a lot by editing HTML and CSS.I have successfully done this based on what I learned from this book.My view is the learning style described as follows is effective:The author explains the topics in the chapter.At the end of each chapter there is an excerise where you can type in code relevant to the chapter and see a website type output.I did these exercises and then made changes to the code so that I could learn to change things.This worked for me and I have been able to customise one of the websites by changing and editing code.

I have only had this book a couple of days, but I think it will help me get to grips with HTML and CSS, and help me start building some web sites.I do have one criticism to make, and it relates to the extremely small sized font used in quite a lot of the screen shot examples. The text in these screen shots is often extremely small and often very difficult to read! (There is a good example of the minute text on Page 34.) Like many senior people, I suffer from a degree of long sight, and I find it almost impossible to clearly read some of the smaller text. Looking at the general page layout of this book I find it puzzling why the screen shot examples could not have been made much larger, because acres of page space is simply wasted on many, nearly empty, pages.

Frustrating that in some parts, for example "Search", it doesn't explain at all how this is used, Google search? web page search? database search? This is not the end of the world, but introducing confusion to a reader is poor. Also in some of the "Form controls" examples they introduce new elements, ID etc, so it's frustrating to see these new elements without understanding why the author has used them. So far a good book, but these sections feel like a dictionary of terms, rather than helping you understand the natural progression.