Customer Reviews
Creating Websites - By: Silver surfer, 25 Nov 2008 
I cannot agree with the other rave reviews. It is supposed to be a beginner's guide. So how can one write 'Fire up your favorite text editor & start writing HTML content.' What is a text editor? It has not been explained yet! To have a 'favorite' one needs to know what it is, have experience of different ones, & from experience to have chosen a 'favorite'. All that is the hallmark of someone with experience, NOT a beginner. He doesn't know what a 'beginner' is so this is NOT a good book for a beginner who wants to create a web site. There are lots of similar titles out there. But which one is a good beginner's guide, I wonder?
Great, excellent, easy to understand - By: julius ceaser, 22 Nov 2007 
This book is really good if you're new to website design & blogging. As usual, the missing manual series has debug website designin easy to understand manner, & with less jargon. It takes one through the very basic website design method, lays down the tools you need & how to use it. This is a must read book if you are new to web design & want to learn from scratch. It can't get better than this.
great for novice website builders - By: D. Graham, 09 Dec 2005 This book is a great starting point for people wanting to set up their first website, or even weblog.
The book is broken up into four sections, covering how to plan your site, find a good webhost & register your funky new domain name, through to a primer for HTML & CSS & web graphics & finishing off with some excellent advice on how to attract visitors to your site, & how to get them to stay! The final section looks at 'web frills', adding javascript, audio & video to your site.
The book is firmly aimed at the web-novice - some of the sections on html & css are fairly basic, but cover the material well, staying clear of the too much jargon pitfall that dogs other books on the subject. Even so, there are some excellent tips & examples which taught me some new things!
As with all O'Reilly books, the style is clear & concise, with clear examples & pictures illustrating key points.
So. Recommended for beginners & worth chccking out for those past the first stepsin building a website. Overall, a fine book.
