Book Review: 10 Minute Guide to HTML 3.2
Second Edition by Tim Evans. Published by QUE. ISBN 0-7897-0965-1. UK Price 13.99
This is probably the most useful technical book which I have bought in a long time. I have always been a bit sceptical about "10 minute"-type books. In my opinion, nothing is quite as easy as these books might lead us to believe. But I must admit that this book won me over.
It is neither too technical, nor patronising. (I am NOT a fan of the "HTML for dummies" approach!). It assumes that the reader has used a browser before, knows how to navigate themselves around windows, and can use a text editor. From then on, the book proceeds at a brisk, but sustainable pace.
Topics include Creating documents, Using anchors and links, Creating lists, Creating tables, and carries on to discuss such advanced topics as simple Javascript and adding VRML.
To round things off, there are chapters on HTML editors, and how to register your web page with search engines.
For reference, you could look up the publisher's home page;- http://www.mcp.com/que
Thoroughly recommended.
Book reviewed by Dennis Adams in 1998