Product Description

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to use HTML and CSS to design, create, and maintain world-class web sites. Using a clear, down-to-earth approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing even complete beginners to learn the essentials from the ground up.

Full-color figures and clear step-by-step instructions help you learn quickly.

Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn.

Quizzes and Exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills.

Learn how to…

  Build your own web page and get it online in an instant

  Format text for maximum clarity and readability

  Create links to other pages and to other sites

  Add graphics, color, and visual pizazz to your web pages

  Work with transparent images and background graphics

  Design your site’s layout and typography using CSS

  Get user input with web-based forms

  Publicize your site and make it search-engine friendly

  Test a web site for compatibility with different browsers

  Make your site easy to maintain and update as it grows

Free Access to Online Learning Lab

Register your book at informit.com/register for free, exclusive access to the Online Learning Lab to supplement this book’s lessons:

  Video walkthroughs to show you how to complete the step-by-step examples in the book

  Fast and fun online quizzes to test your understanding of each lesson

  Updates or corrections as they become available

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Product Details

Publisher	Sams
ISBN	0672330970
Format	Paperback
Author	Julie C. Meloni,Michael Morrison
EAN	9780672330971
Label	Sams
Edition	8
Dewey Decimal Number	006.74
Studio	Sams
Number Of Pages	456
Title	Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (Includes New HTML 5 Coverage) (8th Edition)
Publication Date	2009-12-20
Manufacturer	Sams

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Customer Reviews

Introduction to Making Websites

Review by Judith James, 2010-06-09

This book is written for those who are new at making websites, and includes chapters on related topics such as preparation of web graphics along with basic discussions and exercises on html and css. The topic of css itself is so vast that the authors can only present an introduction. Chapters on positioning in css are excellent and very important, while the absence of discussion about font units is puzzling. To be specific, the exercises use points to specify fonts and don't discuss px or em or % which are far more commonly used on the web. I also would have liked a discussion of best practices in css; that would really help with writing and understanding stylesheets. Certain chapters seem to be leftover from previous editions - such as framesets, that now have only specialized uses.

The title has to be taken with a large dose of irony, as does the "html5 coverage" on the cover (html5 is discussed on one page). html5 features are just now being introduced in web browsers so the use of xhtml is justified, but that cover made me expect more. "Introduction to Making Websites"is a more boring but more accurate title.

A book like this could be even more useful if it had a dedicated website with more discussion and examples tied to the published version.

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Down to the Basics - Simplified Where One Can Do It Blind-Folded

Review by Southie, 2010-05-31

If you already keen on HTML 4 and older as well as CSS, JS, PHP, et al - then you will be well prepared for the upcoming HTML 5 plus CSS-2, CSS-3, JS - Java Script, PHP, et al. All narrowed down and simplified; moreover, this book here will make you want to throw away all of your old books sans the HTML 4 (and those surrounding it)and becoming ready for the NEW GENERATION of browser. What is so amazing is how much 'tags' are eliminated and the changes...

If there is ever time to practice and adapt for "Old Timers" and "Experts" as well as "Web-Masters", the time is NOW ... for one would be relatively SURPRISED, which much emphasis on this of just how easy it is to take out the old files and update it to the latest and already be ready when the browsers become available - which can be anytime soon!

Bonus Point in knowing that such feat now can easily be run off of a flash drive!

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Good Book for Beginners

Review by Roy H. Davis, 2010-04-25

If you have never seen HTML before this book would be an excellent place to start. It starts from the very basics and assumes you know nothing. The subjects are broken up in chunks meant to be consumed in one hour lessons. I found that I could get through a lesson in more like 15 to 20 minutes.

If you are looking for an HTML and CSS reference, this isn't the place. However, the book points out a Web site that is a wonderful reference because it is easy to find a tag or command you are looking for through the links. And this site has examples you can play with live, which is a great learning experience.

The book would have worked better stand-alone if it had come with a CD of some ready-made examples to play with instead of having to type them in from the lising in the book. However, with the Web site mentioned above you have the whole package for learning.

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A top self-starter learning tool for any studying HTML and CSS

Review by Midwest Book Review, 2010-03-19

Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours appears in its eighth updated edition to offer 24 lessons of one hour or less explaining how to use HTML and CSS to create a wine web site. Lessons build systematically and survey all the basics using full-color pictures and step-by-step directions, concluding with quizzes and examples. A top self-starter learning tool for any studying HTML and CSS.

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I Posted My Own Website in A FEW DAYS!!!

Review by Charlotte Ann Hu, 2010-02-11

I know that my site isn't going to win the WEB-E awards, but it has graphics, audio files, tables, photoshopped pictures and is something I was completely incapable of doing before I picked up this book. I had been thinking of taking college courses because I wanted to get into the web world and it seemed inaccessible. I majored in Cultural Anthropology, so I'm a bit behind the technology wave.

The sites I created were creationsbycrouch and huknowsphotography so far.

It isn't accessible any more. My sites are up and I've offered to make more sites for friends. I grow and learn daily and I'm having fun! I bought this book originally in kindle, which I like because I can listen to it with the text-to-speech function while I'm working out in the gym. The ideas kind of swim in my brain, but I found that when I was actually sitting by the computer, it helped to have a real paper version, so I bought a second copy of the book.

Simply put -- I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!

I also bought Flexible Web Design and Teach Yourself PHP and MySQL. The Flexible Web Design Book is awesome! My sites now scale from wide screen to tiny! I haven't started down the PHP path yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

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