Head first HTML with CSS & XHTML
by Elisabeth Freeman · first published 2005
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"A complete learning experience for creating industry standard Web pages - but you won't be just reading: you'll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries and creating Web pages like you never imagined. You'll be also learning how HTML works with CSS ... if you're going to create Web pages in the 21st century, then you want to know and to understand CSS, too."
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Addendum: If you're just starting out learning to program, I would recommend Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML as a better place to start than the Java book. Coding HTML is probably the fundamental skill. It teaches critical concepts such as syntax and debugging in an extremely lightweight environment. HTML allows the most inexperienced programmer to start solving meaningful problems write away.
on “Ask HN: Course or book to learn Java?” ↗If you have no programming experience whatsoever and you're looking to do web development, I recommend starting with HTML. A good book is the Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. HTML isn't a programming language on its own but it is used in conjunction with pretty much everything else and is pretty much the starting point. That book does a really good job explaining the very…
on “Ask: HN Best book on programming for non technical founder?” ↗To figure out the CSS thing I recommend: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. Awesome book, does anyone has read it?
on “How valuable are designers to a startup team?” ↗I always recommend Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML Is the best way to learn CSS!
on “Is there a helpdesk for CSS/HTML problems?” ↗I highly recommend O'Reilly's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. It's written for learning instead of reference, and focuses on modern best practices. It anticipates and answers most questions a beginner might have. http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/
on “Ask HN: Resources for learning HTML” ↗It looks like you had a link on “this” that got swallowed by HN. HN doesn‘t allow <a> tags in comments; you have to put the URL you want directly in the text, and it will be linked automatically. Did you mean Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/?
on “Don't Fear the Internet: Basic HTML & CSS for non-Web Designers” ↗Hi all, A little bit of introduction: I'm a programmer, with appr. 8 years of experience writing desktop application (CAD, in C++), and game programming in the last 3 years. The working experience regarding the programming languages is just bare C, some assembler, and C++ (in C-with-classes mode mainly). Since I and my partner decided to go for a web startup (the application idea is still quite
on “Ask HN: How to get started in web programming?” ↗…learning some HTML and CSS then you may be disappointed. It's just difficult to debug code (which is what HTML and CSS are) graphically. At least I found it next to impossible, so I gave up and bought Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. I found using a text editor and refreshing the browser much more efficient than dragging stuff around the screen. YMMV. On the other hand, if you're flexible about the end results, you can get a lot…
on “Ask HN: What is the best WYSIWYG Website creator?” ↗