WILEY HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

This book is simply amazing especially for beginners I would highly recommend to read this book you will get to learn a lot from this book a perfect 5/5.

Useful book for beginners

The book's take a wonderfully refreshing approaching to teaching the building blocks of HTML and modern CSS. It was ahead of it's time gambling on the future state of the modern web standards we have today and largely dispensing with the pain most of us suffered before wider adoption in browsers today. Two things preventing me from giving it 5 stars: - I did catch a fair number of grammatical/spelling mistakes as I read it. More of a minor annoyance rather than significantly affecting my reading. - I can't figure out if the book is deliberately styled as a throw back to older printing techniques/quality such that the colors appears to bleed slightly into the page (text in particular) or if there is a general print quality problem with the book. Again, it's annoying more than anything. In-spite of this I would still very much recommend.

Llegó un poco maltratado pero el contenido es muy bueno y gráfico. Es un buen libro para los que estamos iniciando en el mundo de HTML.

I need it for work

This book is excellent for people wanting to learn how to design websites. It's seperated into 3 parts: The first 9 Chapters teach you everything you need to know about HTML, the next 6 teach you about CSS and the remaining 3 tell you practical tips. The author really knows how to explain things well, every single element you learn has an example code with it and the book is filled with pictures and illustrations. Everything is well thought out and perfectly understandable. One thing I disliked about this book though is the quality of the book itself. It happened to me a couple times that single pages got torn out a bit easily just by turning them and the paper used in this book makes you see every single fingerprint you ever put on this book and its pages. But that doesn't change my 5 star rating for this book, because in the end its about the content. This book for this price can be bought without any regrets. :)

Sometimes I get bogged down in programming manuals, and I wish sometimes that there were more manuals like this. Even though I can code, my HTML is dodgy and I needed to take the plunge and learn HTML and (maybe more important these days) CSS. This book is a welcome change from just about any other book. It is lovingly designed, easy to read, and the format, though aimed at the beginner, is also fine for the intermediate user. The reason I think I can say this is that, because of the way it reads, it sinks in to your memory. Other courses I have done in the past I have simply forgotten with the passage of time, but this book really imprints the knowledge in your head. In fact I would say the book is actually a work of art in itself, and I really handle it with care as it feels more like an item of art than a text book - just wait until you see it. Jon Duckett has really put his heart and soul into this, whilst keeping it clean and accessible. The structure of how HTML and then CSS is laid out in a form that is as much an easy read as a manual and I really didn't mind getting out my text editor and having a go at the examples as I went along. This is significant for me as HTML and CSS usually bore me to tears. At last I have found a book I can learn from. And if I can learn from it then I reckon anyone can, young or old, beginner or computer programmer. At only £10 for over 500 pages it was also really good value, especially considering it is in full colour. I actually look forward to lending this to someone the way I would for a great novel I'd read that I wanted to share. If you are confused about what book to pick up to learn HTML5/CSS3 then I don't think you can go wrong with this. It is a superb book and the best I have seen on the subject.