Head First HTML With CSS & XHTML

"This is one of those cases where you can judge a book by its cover. In addition to the title and author, the cover of Head First HTML with CSS & HTML has seven tag lines, four photos and two drawings. One of the nuggets is, 'A learner's guide to creating standards-based Web pages', which is a pretty good summary of the book and its intended audience...Head First HTML deserves its score of 10... It's clear and thorough, and will be effective both for the complete beginner and in bringing stale skills up to date."
--Graeme Williams, Slashdot.org, February 2006

"Someone finally wrote a good book on HTML, CSS & XHTML...If you're serious and want to really know how to use HTML, CSS and XHTML - get this book. No others. This one. Really."
--Taran Rampersad, KnowProSE.com, January 2006

"If you've ever had a family member who wanted you to design a website for them, buy them Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. If you've ever asked a family member to design you a web site, buy this book. If you've ever bought an HTML book and ended up using it to level your desk, or for kindling on a cold winter day, buy this book. This is the book you've been waiting for. This is the learning system you've been waiting for."
--Warren Kelly, Blogcritics.org, January 2006

"...I think this book is well worth a purchase for the new web developer or designer. While even the most experienced developer would pick up a trick or two, the book really lends itself to a newbie. The book is about 600 pages and there is value to each page. The games and puzzles are a nice break from the traditional and offer a way to really get the information learned in the chapter to stick. I would easily consider this book the most fun reading I have done about HTML/CSS/XHTML ever."
--Allen Stern, HTML Center, February 2006

(Computer Bookshops Limited)

Eric Freeman is a computer scientist with a passion for media and software architectures and coauthor of Head First Design Patterns. He just wrapped up four years at a dream job-- directing internet broadband and wireless efforts at Disney--and is now back to writing, creating cool software, and hacking Java and Macs. Eric spent a lot of the '90s working on alternatives to the desktop metaphor with David Gelernter (and they're both still asking the question, Why do I have to give a file a name?). Based on this work, Eric landed a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1997. He also co-founded Mirror Worlds Technologies (now acquired) to create a commercial version of his thesis work, Lifestreams. In a previous life, Eric built software for networks and supercomputers. You might know him from such books as JavaSpaces Principles Patterns and Practice. Eric has fond memories of implementing tuple-space systems on Thinking Machine CM-5s and creating some of the first internet information systems for NASA in the late 1980s. When he's not writing text or code you'll find him spending more time tweaking than watching his home theater and trying to restore a circa 1980s Dragon's Lair video game. He also wouldn't mind moonlighting as an electronica DJ.

(Whitaker)

Intro 1 The Language of the Web: getting to know HTML 2 Meet the 'HT' in HTML: going further, with hypertext 3 Web Page Construction: building blocks 4 A Trip to Webville: getting connected 5 Meeting the Media: adding images to your pages 6 Serious HTML: standards, compliance, and all that jazz 7 Putting 'X' into HTML: moving to XHTML 8 Adding a Little Style: getting started with CSS 9 Expanding your Vocabulary: styling with fonts and colors 10 Getting Intimate with Elements: the box model 11 Advanced Web Construction: divs and spans 12 Arranging Elements: layout and positioning 13 Getting Tabular: tables and lists 14 Getting Interactive: XHTML forms Appendix: The Top Ten Topics (we didn't cover): leftovers

(Whitaker)