1. HTML for the World Wide Web with
XHTML and CSS (Visual QuickStart
Guide) by Elizabeth Castro
Very Usefull !
Its important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on
powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World
Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbin g it
XHTML 1.0) and the allowable code will eventually be stricter. Tags that
are being phased out are labeled deprecated--current browsers can still
handle them, but if you want your site to keep up with future browsers, not
to mention conform to accessibility requirements, you will want to get on
top of XHTML.Of course, Elizabeth Castro manages to write books that not
only speak to those who are already fluent in HTML, but are good for
newbies too. She makes it a breeze to create sites that are visually s tylish
and technically sophisticated without the expense of buying an
editor.Among the topics covered in her new book, HTML for the World
Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: using the (relatively newer) structural
tags (like doctype and div); correctly using older tags (like p and img) that
have been modified in XHTML; writing XHTML so that formatting is done
by the style sheets; writing those style sheets (cascading style sheets,
a.k.a. CSS); creating a variety of layouts; and dealing with tables, frames,
forms, multimedia, a bit of JavaScript (including mouseovers), WML (for
mobile device displays), debugging, publishing, and publicizing your
site.As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, this one features clear and
concise instructions side by side with well-captioned illustrations and
screen shots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on
the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a great
reference.Also great for reference are the outstanding appendices. The
first is an extensive list of tags and attributes, indicating which are
deprecated and/or proprietary and on which page they are discussed. A
similar appendix shows CSS properties and values; given the future of
Web coding, this chart alone is worth the price of the book. Other handy
charts cover intrinsic events, symbols and character Unicodes, and an
expanded color chart that goes way beyond the virtually archaic Web-
safe palette. All of which makes this a definite must-have for every Web
designers bookshelf. --Angelynn Grant
Overall, this book was a very valuable resource. Let me temper this by
saying that I am an advanced computer user, with experience
programming in many languages. That said, this book was a great

2. refresher for me, that even taught me some things. I would definitely
recomend this book to a novice user.
This book is an extremly useful guide to XHTML (or HTML) and CSS. It
especially promotes the merits of CSS (cascading style sheets) in web
developement, and the ease they provide in facilitating consistent design
throughout a website. For an advanced programmer familiar with web
developement, it may seem trivial at first, but it is a worthwhile read. For
newbies, it will be an invaluable resource.
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