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In 1999, I bought a book about the web. This brave and still relatively new world hadcaught my interest, and the pocketsized Rough Guide to the Internet featured four or sopages of rudimentary HTML. After about three hours I had built a web page and linked toanother one. This first web page looked awful, but I was excited. Later that day I somehowmanaged to upload it to a domain, and I realized I had created a website an actual website.So na239ve was I back then that I assumed Id need to leave my home computer on inorder for other web users to see my pages How amazed I was at work the next day when Isuccessfully called my little website up in front of
the boss.So, I decided to buy another book, called Learn HTML in a Weekend. It was a very longweekend. This and other preliminary books taught me a lot, but much of it badly my code waslittered with font tags, frames, and tables for layout. CSS had not really taken hold back then.In the beginning, we used HTML to do all the hard work because we didnt know anybetter. This difficult, limiting, and weighty approach to building websites was born out ofHTMLs generosity, it being a rich language with early specifications offering rather toomuch scope for abuse. I can accept that now, but Im unsure why so many recent booksstill preoccupy the reader with ill-advised and outdated techniques that can be achievedmuch better and more easily with web standards.I care about how people learn to build websites, and I know it can be impenetrable forbeginners. Equally, I worry that many professionals are still ripping off clients with shoddyworkmanship. This is why Im so happy to introduce this book. David Schultz and Craig Cookunderstand that building websites is a craft, and with Beginning HTML with CSS andXHTML Modern Guide and Reference they bring you years of experience condensed intoan enjoyable, carefully structured reference focused on responsible, powerful HTML,CSS, XHTML and even JavaScript the perfect introductory package.Youll find a wealth of practical examples that you can actually use. As a stickler fortop-notch code, Im especially impressed that everything within validates as HTML
Strictwhich youll learn more about soon and that David and Craig have ensured all methodswork cross-browser and will stand up to whatever twists and turns the Internet takes next.You are embarking upon a great adventure, but you have in your hands the best possiblemap and two expert guides to hold your hand. Soon youll reach your destination and willbe waxing lyrical to anyone wholl listen about your grasp of web standards, wonderingwhy the old boys still work with their
outdated methods. Mighty explorers, this book willtell you all you need to know.