After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent standards-compliant design can be intimidating. HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference is the perfect little book when you need answers immediately.
Jennifer Niederst-Robbins, author Web Design in a Nutshell, has revised and updated the fourth edition of this pocket guide by taking the top 20% of vital reference information from her Nutshell book, augmenting it judiciously, cross-referencing everything, and organizing it according to the most common needs of web developers. The result is a handy book that offers the bare essentials on web standards in a small, concise format that you can use carry anywhere for quick reference.
HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference features easy-to-find listings of every HTML and XHTML tag, and every Cascading Style Sheet value. It's an indispensable reference for any serious web designer, author, or programmer who needs a fast on-the-job resource when working with established web standards.
Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly), and has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos.
Comments about O'Reilly Media HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference:
Very and useful information in this book. But it has the worst index and organization I have ever seen in an O'reilly's book.
4/15/2010
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Comments about O'Reilly Media HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference:
This book is an incredibly useful reference tool. Not only does it allow users to use it as a dictionary to look up specific elements, particularly ones one may have forgotten, but it provides good lists of character entities. The index is very useful when finding an aspect of html with which one is not familiar. It also provides html5 elements and describes the differences between html4.01 and html5. It also lists depreciated tags which is rather useful. It is a great tool, particularly when trying new things or trying to remember aspects of html that one has forgotten.
This book is not very useful if one does not yet have general html familiarity. For that type of use, an introductory book on html would be more appropriate.