Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML & XHTML in 21 Days (4th, 03) by Lemay, Laura - Colburn, Rafe [Paperback (2003)] Paperback

I've taught HTML and e-commerce at the university level for about a decade now. This book is the best I have found. I use it as my personal reference. I require it for my classes.It covers the essentials. It gives clear examples. It is organized in a logical order that works. It can be used by someone who has never tried to build a web page, and also has enough 'meat' so that those who have been building pages for years can find useful information and tips throughout.I just wish I could find books on some of my other subjects that are as well written and organized as this.

Ok, my written english isn't good at all, but I'd just wanna say how much I love this book. I have been studying html and css for some time now, and I already knew something when I bought this book, and what I think great about it is that it's so detailed about how the things work in html, xhtml and css that it's like if I was learning everything from the beginning again, but this time knowing exactly what I was doing and why.Well, that's it.. sorry for my english.

This book is ok. I had to get it for a class. The writing is alittle hard to follow, but it is a good reference.

If you wish to learn HTML, this is the book to get! It is funny, comprehensive, and an easy read.I used this book and a simple ASCII editor to create the Lifeboat Foundation web site. This book made a fairly complicated task a breeze!A good follow-up book is "Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference" by O'Reilly.

CD came damaged from xpresstext in which there is a large mark/scratch across the CD using priority shipping and after attempting to notify them and Amazon 4 times, no response until I contacted the BBB and Amazon will not help because I did complain to the BBB. Guess it is up to the BBB now.

I like this one.. why?praise:1)you dont have to be in front of your pc to learn html from this book2)handy dandy reference section!3)covers all the basics adequately4)gives appropriate stylistic advice. who cares if you can script if your web page is plain old ugly and unreadable?5)puts things in a good chronological order6)I learned to code from this book; its pages are bent from my continual re-referencing!7)I like the Idea that there is a series. when I feel like I have time to learn c# or .net I can continue with a familiar source.complaints:1)index could be broader!2)sometimes when I am looking for a specific bit of code it takes me a long time to find it. This book needs more headings.If it had a broader index, more headings, and raw info in the margins for quick refrence it would be perfect.

Very well written, even if you know nothing about HTML (like me). If you want to know the nuts & bolts of writing HTML code by hand, this book is exactly what you're looking for. Don't feel bad if you take a little more than 21 days, there's a lot of information in there! However, if you're more interested in learning the intricacies of an HTML editor, such as Frontpage or Hotdog, this book would probably be overkill.

I chose this book as the text for a college HTML course. I have used 3 other books and have found this one to be great. It covers all the basic tags, and has several great sections on CSS and how to use it for page layout and text formatting.Students have commented on how they like it. This summer the course was fully online.I would reccommend it for anyone wanting to learn HTML and a bit more.