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Editorial Review :

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BLENDED HTML, XHTML, AND CSS provides you with beginning Web programming skills with in-depth coverage of CSS and its use with HTML and XHTML. With the New Perspectives proven pedagogy, you will think critically and understand WHY you're learning WHAT you're learning.

Customer Review :

Great hands-on HTML and CSS book for beginners

I am a 13-year-old middle school student who is studying some basic Web technology over the summer. This is my first time to learn HTML and CSS. After reading several books on this subject, by far this is the best book for beginners. I could follow and understand it easily. I finished the book in less than a month, and all exercises worked properly as shown in the book.

Here are some of the highlights in this book:

- On each chapter, the author clearly explains the covering concepts and he repeats them throughout the book so you won't forget them in later chapters.

- Through the tutorials that go along with each chapter, the hands-on technique makes applying the concept to the real world seem easier to understand and help with remembering what you learned.

I am so happy to read this book and would definitely recommend it to all beginners who are new to HTML and CSS.

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Easy to follow

Bought this as a textbook for an HTML class, but it could be used on it's own. Easy to follow instructions.

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Very good book

I have just finished using this book in an online class (offered by the author). I could not disagree more with the "Don't buy this" review from July 28, 2008. I worked the tutorials and would say I have covered 80% of the examples in this book. I found 2 very minor typos. And no errors of susbstance.

This book is a tutorial, rather than a reference. It can be hard to find specific information, but that is not how the book is intended to be used. IMHO, you will have a hard time finding a better HTML tutorial than this book.

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Good to have for future HTML design experts!

The book is a good resource for those that are looking for a step by step process on how to build a web page. The book takes you through scenarios on using different tags, modification of attributes and beautification of a web page. My recommendation would be to work through each of the scenarios to get the entire concept down though. I'm using this book as a text book for an "Intro to Web Design" class and we jump around to various sections to cover specific concepts. This book does have a good appendix at the end for quick reference.

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Don't buy this

I hate how Amazon won't let you give an item zero stars.

This book was required by class, and that is the only reason I bought it. I can't say enough about how wretched this book is. If you're a beginner, this is not a book for you- go find something from the Classroom in a Book series. If you're like me and have been in web design a while and took a web design class in hopes of an easy A, you know this stuff already.

The book is laid out as a series of tutorials, which means you'll never find anything quickly. Each module has you coding HTML and CSS at the same time. Which theoretically could have worked, but they flip-flopped it so frequently that you couldn't always understand what they were trying to do exactly. I really think they should have given a good background in HTML first, then used the second half of the book to cover CSS (which I totally adore) and how it complements HTML.

What really burned me up was that the code in the book is often wrong. I cheat and use DreamWeaver when designing (and tweak the heck out of my code once it's roughed in) so I didn't really notice until my classmates (who were trying to hand code everything in Notepad) kept having validation issues despite having copied everything from the book exactly. I double checked the book against the W3C specifications and sure enough the coding in the book was wrong.

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Editorial Review :

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BLENDED HTML, XHTML, AND CSS provides you with beginning Web programming skills with in-depth coverage of CSS and its use with HTML and XHTML. With the New Perspectives proven pedagogy, you will think critically and understand WHY you're learning WHAT you're learning. Kindle textbooks are functionally equivalent to the print textbook. In some cases, individual items such as ancillary images or multimedia have been removed for digital delivery due to rights restrictions.

Customer Review :

Good to have for future HTML design experts!

The book is a good resource for those that are looking for a step by step process on how to build a web page. The book takes you through scenarios on using different tags, modification of attributes and beautification of a web page. My recommendation would be to work through each of the scenarios to get the entire concept down though. I'm using this book as a text book for an "Intro to Web Design" class and we jump around to various sections to cover specific concepts. This book does have a good appendix at the end for quick reference.

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Easy to follow

Bought this as a textbook for an HTML class, but it could be used on it's own. Easy to follow instructions.

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Very good book

I have just finished using this book in an online class (offered by the author). I could not disagree more with the "Don't buy this" review from July 28, 2008. I worked the tutorials and would say I have covered 80% of the examples in this book. I found 2 very minor typos. And no errors of susbstance.

This book is a tutorial, rather than a reference. It can be hard to find specific information, but that is not how the book is intended to be used. IMHO, you will have a hard time finding a better HTML tutorial than this book.

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Don't buy this

I hate how Amazon won't let you give an item zero stars.

This book was required by class, and that is the only reason I bought it. I can't say enough about how wretched this book is. If you're a beginner, this is not a book for you- go find something from the Classroom in a Book series. If you're like me and have been in web design a while and took a web design class in hopes of an easy A, you know this stuff already.

The book is laid out as a series of tutorials, which means you'll never find anything quickly. Each module has you coding HTML and CSS at the same time. Which theoretically could have worked, but they flip-flopped it so frequently that you couldn't always understand what they were trying to do exactly. I really think they should have given a good background in HTML first, then used the second half of the book to cover CSS (which I totally adore) and how it complements HTML.

What really burned me up was that the code in the book is often wrong. I cheat and use DreamWeaver when designing (and tweak the heck out of my code once it's roughed in) so I didn't really notice until my classmates (who were trying to hand code everything in Notepad) kept having validation issues despite having copied everything from the book exactly. I double checked the book against the W3C specifications and sure enough the coding in the book was wrong.

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Great hands-on HTML and CSS book for beginners

I am a 13-year-old middle school student who is studying some basic Web technology over the summer. This is my first time to learn HTML and CSS. After reading several books on this subject, by far this is the best book for beginners. I could follow and understand it easily. I finished the book in less than a month, and all exercises worked properly as shown in the book.

Here are some of the highlights in this book:

- On each chapter, the author clearly explains the covering concepts and he repeats them throughout the book so you won't forget them in later chapters.

- Through the tutorials that go along with each chapter, the hands-on technique makes applying the concept to the real world seem easier to understand and help with remembering what you learned.

I am so happy to read this book and would definitely recommend it to all beginners who are new to HTML and CSS.

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Editorial Review :

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON JAVASCRIPT AND AJAX uses a practical, step-by-step approach to provide comprehensive instruction on basic to advanced JavaScript and AJAX concepts. This book teaches students JavaScript and AJAX using a simple text editor to create basic to complex Web sites. The text reviews the basics of HTML, XHTML, and CSS and includes an extended appendix containing commands and common code errors.

Customer Review :

Poorly Written, Full of Mistakes

This is an awful textbook. Be wary of any teacher that assigns this textbook for a class, as it's evidence that they either don't know good material when they see it, or they're just using the teacher's companion materials as a substitute for their own teaching material.

Reading through this textbook has been a considerable pain, as I have to read things over and over again to understand what's being explained. Sometimes new concepts are introduced or questions are naturally raised, but no answer is alluded to or provided until later on in the chapter (or maybe never). It's clear that these writers aren't good teachers as they can't anticipate the thought processes of their readers. Oftentimes I'd get fed up with their writing and just Google the topic myself and find a much more clearly written explanation from some random blogger. That's pretty sad.

To add insult to injury, every chapter contains at least 1 or 2 serious typos or mistakes that result in confusion. In the chapter I'm reading now for example (Tutorial 5, page 255), they actually state the opposite of an expected result in an example of a regular expression.

Don't suffer through this textbook. Demand a new one or complain to the department if your teacher insists on using this.

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Cryptic Exercises

There are a lot of ways one could write a book; however, this is probably the least desirable. Excessive passages of storyline take up the students time. While the additional content might be ok, it is coupled with exercises that as you proceed into the text begin to require the student to decipher what the author is saying vice the problem at hand. You lose track of the learning process and spend more and more time guessing what the text is attempting to say.

Both students and teacher are frustrated and we are abandoning the book after only a few chapters. Recommendation: look for a more straight forward learning text.


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This book sucks

I go to nwtc, I have several languages under my belt along with learning C# at the same time. Languages I know are java, C++, PHP, and a bunch of the scripting languages like batch, bash, and some python. I have used several books to learn languages and this is the worse. It has spelling errors such as the first case study we had to do was changing an image, there was a part in the case study if you followed it you would not get it to work. It told you to write the path, then the number then .jpg. however there is a prefix to the number. After the first chapter I just used the internet and other books to complete the assignments. On average I could complete the assignments in about an hour to an hour and a half, that is with the other resources. If I did not use the internet or the books I do not think theres enough information to complete the assignments. This book is no good for anyone either you have some knowledge or an expert or a complete noobie to the programming world.

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The Textbook from Hell

I just completed a college course that required this textbook, New Perspectives on JavaScript and AJAX by Patrick Carey and Frank Canovatchel. And I just received word from the instructor that I got an A+ in the class.

Great, ain't it! But guess what? I still don't have a clue about coding with javascript.

I've been walking around for weeks with bags under my eyes because of my nightly struggles and early morning visits to the campus lab trying to make heads or tails out of the way the material is presented. And never did I enjoy even one of those tiny epiphanies in which the student feels the encouraging elation of "Oh, yes, I'm finally starting to get it!"

It's really difficult for me to explain what is actually wrong with this book. If I could, then maybe I would have gained at least an inch of comprehension in its reading. The book is written by recipe, rote repetition from one chapter to the next. Everything sounds the same. My instructor describes the text style as "immersion," but for the beginner it's asphyxiation. Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by material, you're unable to formulate a meaningful question?

These Carey and Canovatchel characters are not teachers. They're booksellers. Worse yet, textbook sellers. And success of their product requires an unwitting captive audience.

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Hard to understand. Get another Javascript book

My teacher had chosen this book for the class I took and he said it was awesome. I knew many different computer programs and though that Javascript would be very easy. At first it was but when I did my first case study it was a little hard to understand what to do. I ended up doing it my own way to later find out that it was the right way. Then it got worse becuase the teacher was just reading the powerpoint base off this book. Thats another thing, you have to rely on your teacher to get the case studies in the book because the book only gives the cases and assignments to the teacher. My class went from 30 students to 7 by the final. For those of you who want to learn javascript DO NOT get this book. This book was design for students. The book is still good in ways of teaching Javascript it is just hard to understand the case study.

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