Creating a Website: The Missing Manual

I have been designing web sites for four years and I have collected over a dozen books on website design. Only one other comes close to being this clear and comprehensive as an introductory manual. It is much improved over the 2011 version too. It covers the entire process of website design, selecting a development tool, finding a provider, an introduction to html programming, and finally, dealing with AJAX and JavaScript interaction with the website. There is a goodly amount of material concerning the details of successfully completing each step in the process. I learned several things that I hadn't seen in reading website design books for four years. Even at this late date it has made me a better website programmer and I recommend it for all beginning website designers.

Plenty of useful information that I used to create and enhance my club's website. The on-line examples made it easier to see and do; best way to learn, IMHO. Lots of pointers to other references that might be needed. Sometimes, I thought it might be a shameless plug for a companion book from the series, but, for the most part, the presented material was as stated and quite useful.

I ordered and received this book, in about four days. I and my daughter want to create our own websites and sell our products. We have a lot to learn at this time, as I have not created a web page since I used Microsoft Publisher in years past. This book is about 600 pages, counting the index in the back which is helpful and includes HTML Semantic Elements & Character Entities in the Appendix. The 4 parts of the book and from creating a webpage in Part 1, the chapters flow from a basic introduction and then the HTML language is inserted so you can create that first page on your computer, that will be the beginning of your website and included therein. There is a lot to start learning, but if that 20 year old with all the facial hair and tattoos can learn it, so can I. Good luck to me and if I find this book as helpful as it seems with my first reading, I will come back and give it another star. I like it so far and have learned a lot in my beginnings of developing my own website.

I love this book! Before I started reading, I had no clue about coding. Within days of beginning it, I not only understood basic HTML and CSS, I began designing my own webpage!

This book covers the basics in an easy to understand format. It also gives you plenty of free web pages and links in order to try out your new learnings.

I had gotten this book at the library and decided to purchase it to keep as a reference. Very clear examples and I like the writing style.

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Excellent description about creating a website using HTML and CSS - lots of tips and other useful information!

There's nothing in this book that a million other books haven't already covered in equal, or greater detail.

No lo he terminado de leer, pero es un excelente libro porque te lleva de la mano con explicación e inmediatamente después con ejercicios prácticos. Yo ya conozco algo sobre HTML pero este libro es perfecto para principantes como para personas que ya saben del tema.

Returning to web-site design after a 15 year break, I have found this invaluable. It covers a vast amount of material with many useful references to other information sources.

The content is great but very annoying when, on multiple occassions, it appears that a page is missing. Not easy to read when a chunk of detail is missing.

Good for becoming fluent in the basics, very well written - A great reference book. Recommended!