Creating Web Pages For Dummies

Creating Web Pages For Dummies

Ideal for novices, Creating Web Pages for Dummies starts off with discussion of some key design topics and shows the way to publishing well designed Web sites. The authors have you writing HTML and getting a feel for the basic process by the third chapter. Once you’re hooked, they show you how to build a home page in a single day and offer advice on how to get online with an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

The book gradually gets more serious in scope, presenting sites for business use and implementing graphics and multimedia. It shows you how easy it is to publish photos, to implement sound and video clips, and introduces hot technologies like Java, ActiveX and XML.

Finally, the guide introduces you to various authoring tools, browsers, and the special considerations of publishing for WebTV. In the usual Dummies style, the author offers 10 dos and 10 don’ts for Web publishing. The book wraps up with appendices of ISPs, a guide to HTML tags, and a CD-ROM with tools and an excellent set of links for useful Web resources. –Stephen W. Plain

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars A Good Place to Start
This is a great book for the person just getting started in thinking about putting up a web site.

The basic concept here is to use a fairly minimal amount of HTML, which he teaches you, and then one of the hosting services such as GeoCities, Google or AOL to get your site up and running. All in all, he presents an excellent description of what you need to think about, what technologies you need to understand, and the various tools that are available to assist in the construction of the site.

The intent of this book is to enable to get a site up and running, fairly quickly (He says in a day, I think he is a bit optimistic, plan on a weekend, maybe even a three day weekend.) but only after having thought a lot about the various aspects.

Then in chapter 18 he talks just aenough about things like JavaScript, database connectivity, cascading style sheets and more to let you know that you’ve barely scratched the surface.

An excellent place to get started.

5 Stars Great reference book
Thanks for the quick responce in the product, received what I needed for less

3 Stars This is for someone who does not want to purchase any software over 20 bucks. It leans heavily on Yahoo.
I was hoping for something that would help me get started on building my own site. This book is for someone who just wants any site, and is looking for someone else to do for them.

5 Stars A great start if you are making your own website
Even though I am a bit above average in computer knowledge i found this book very helpful with making my web page.

I found it to be a great reference

1 Star At Least The Title Is Right!
This was my first “for Dummies” book purchase and it will be the last (unfortunately, I also purchased “Web Sites for Dummies” at the same time. A How-To book this not….you get no step-by-step instructions, what you do get is a lot of information that is generally available on the internet with a dose of new-age you can do anything you want if you try………well, at least the title is right……….only a DUMMY would buy this book.

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