Comments on: Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, Graphics, and Beyond

By: Ralph Speirs

Ralph Speirs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:57:40 +0000

Jennifer Niederst book “Learning Web Design” I found to be a great book explaining very well for beginners on how to build basic websites. I have been building sites for a year and studying and this book gave me great foundation for my future web designing. I look forward to reading her other book, which I bought with this one “Web Design in a nutshell”.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:02:39 +0000

For those looking to start web design this is the book to get. It says illustrated but it should say illustrations on every page. Very very illustrated. One of my favorite things about this book is after every chapter(when HTML is disscused)it provides an appendix showing you the html tags you just learned. Useful as a reference. This book does not leave you hanging. It teaches you every thing you need to create and understand basic websites. About half the book introduces you to html tags and the other portion is about web graphics. Jenn’s style of writting is not boring but is often humerous and cozy. I have created 4 websites after reading this book. Buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:37:31 +0000

Excellent writing style made it fun and easy to follow along and actually create a functional website. I made 4 websites by the time I finished the book!
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Grant Calvert

Grant Calvert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:45:02 +0000

What a great book! Being very new to website design was a little scary, but this book eases the stress – user friendly. Thoroughly recommended. Get out and buy it!
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Teddy

Teddy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:03:17 +0000

The reviewer/teacher that posted on April 11, 2001 is right on the mark. This book says nothing on Forms. However, it is a good book explaining the ins-out of the rest of the stuff to a degree. But I feel it spends too much time on hypothetical questioning & marketing your pages, which is good I suppose but a waste of time when most of what she says is common sense. I already knew HTML before going into this book & it shows some new helpers that weren’t there before. She doesn’t address the pitfalls of many HTML situations like nested tables or backgrounds in cells in nested tables in older browsers (well not that old). The publishing company QUE wrote a book on HTML and it was much better. The whole HTML/web design coding is changing pretty fast with XML/XHTML, & CSS arrising, this book is no better than QUE’s published 5-7 years ago. I do not recommend this book. Oh yeah one more thing, it has cheap binding, mine is already falling apart!
Rating: 2 / 5