Comments on: XHTML, Comprehensive

By: Michael Y. Zions

Michael Y. Zions — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:54:59 +0000

This book is fantastic! Clear and concise, this book will walk you through XHTML and basic Javascript from beginner to power user. The chapter review questions genuinely challenge and reinforce the lessons, and the projects add experience without tedium. I learned a great deal from this book. Recommended.

By: Merissa Tomlinson

Merissa Tomlinson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:16:38 +0000

This product was exactly as stated. Great communication and shipping was quick! Thank you.

By: bluebelle

bluebelle — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:19:51 +0000

I loved this book. It is very easy to follow and has several useful examples and hands-on exercises throughout each chapter. Gives a good foundation for beginning designers and developers. Easily one of the best textbooks I’ve used in my web design courses. It also covers the basics of Javascript and CSS, which was a nice surprise.

By: James May

James May — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:42:56 +0000

Although this book is clear and concise in some areas it is somewhat muddled in others. It’s greatest lack is it’s sparse information in regard to the most important contemporary way to organize a web page and that is the almighty DIV tag. In this regard it is behind the times. I was unlucky enough to have this as my text book when I went back to college at the age of 53 to study all things digital: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and XHTML. A fundamental view of how a modern web page works is sadly lacking although the details on other aspects are commendable. Without the fundamentals though, a beginner is left in the dark and this book is for beginners. Not well done. I actually learned more about DIVs when accidentally looking at the chapter heading in another HTML book while browsing a bookstore. That’s right, the name of a chapter heading in a book told me more about the importance of DIVs then all the info in Gosselin’s book.

This book is yet another example of an author who really knows his stuff but doesn’t know how to organize his knowledge quite properly or present it in a concise manner with a view to a fundamental overall picture.