Head first HTML with CSS & XHTML
"A complete learning experience for creating industry standard Web pages - but you won't be just reading: you'll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries and creating Web pages like you never imagined. You'll be also learning how HTML works with CSS... if you're going to create Web pages in the 21st century, then you want to know and to understand CSS, too."
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- If you have no programming experience whatsoever and you're looking to do web development, I recommend starting with HTML. A good book is the Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. HTML isn't a programming language on its own but it is used in conjunction with pretty much everything else and is pretty much the starting point. That book does a really good job explaining the very basics and why you'd do something a certain way. From there, you can expand into actual programming languages afterwards.
- Addendum: If you're just starting out learning to program, I would recommend Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML as a better place to start than the Java book.
Coding HTML is probably the fundamental skill. It teaches critical concepts such as syntax and debugging in an extremely lightweight environment.
HTML allows the most inexperienced programmer to start solving meaningful problems write away.
Most importantly, HTML is the best introduction to iterative development and progressive refinement.
And it is utterly painless to learn.
- I highly recommend O'Reilly's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML.
It's written for learning instead of reference, and focuses on modern best practices. It anticipates and answers most questions a beginner might have.
- I always recommend Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML Is the best way to learn CSS!
- To figure out the CSS thing I recommend:
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. Awesome book, does anyone has read it?
- It looks like you had a link on “this” that got swallowed by HN. HN doesn‘t allow <a> tags in comments; you have to put the URL you want directly in the text, and it will be linked automatically.
Did you mean Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/?
