Last updated 2/22/2006
Creating Web Sites The Missing Manual
Creating Web Sites The Missing Manual
Author: Matthew MacDonald
Publisher: Pogue Press/OÕReilly
548 pages ........ $29.95
ISBN: 0-596-00842-2
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The Web does not come with a manual in the box. Creating Web Sites The Missing Manual
was written to fill this need. It covers important essentials of everything from beginning HTML and CSS to making money with your web site, JavaSript, and rollover buttons. There is an added chapter on Blogs. The author, Matthew MacDonald, obviously could not cover everything in depth, so he has included two appendixes, one is a useful HTML Quick Reference, and the other a very nice listing of Useful Web Sites organized by the chapters in the book.
Matthew MacDonald's writing is in the clear reader-friendly style of the Missing Manual series though the book does not have David Pogues humor.
I liked and learned from the parts of this book that fit my present interest in learning to improve web pages. And, I learned enough about some other areas know that I do not want to get involved there.
But, I am having some difficulty in writing this review because the book does not contain more within my areas of interest, and covers such a broad scope of things outside of my interests.
I am also having difficulty because of my own biases.
Mathew MacDonald has written several Microsoft programming books, and was the author of Excel: The Missing Manual
. He is being practical when he only mentions the essentials of XHTML, the approved standard for future HTML, because most of the web does not use it yet.
This bothers me because Information Technology experts have used similar arguments against installing Macintosh computers.ÊI would prefer that Information Technology experts support progress to XHTML by describing ways to get around problems and by identifying where versions of Internet Explorer deviate from the standard.
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