Sams Teach Yourself HTML in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself...in 10 Minutes)

A clear, super quick, easy-to-understand guide for new HTML 5 users

 

Fast access to instructions for every common task, plus reliable, concise answers to the most widely asked questions

Organized into lessons that distill the most crucial information on each HTML 5 topic

Tips and cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and help readers avoid common pitfalls.

 

HTML 5, the successor to HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, is now in stable Working Draft form. There are many exciting new elements in HTML, as well as new attributes, and new rules. And, of course, many deprecated HTML 4 elements have been dropped.Sams Teach Yourself HTML 5 in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, you learn everything you need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with HTML 5. It will provide beginner and experienced HTML users alike with fast, at a glance tips pointing out helpful shortcuts and solutions and cautions to help avoid common HTML 5 pitfalls. It is written in a clear easy to understand format. Sams Teach Yourself HTML 5 in 10 Minutes focuses on those tags or elements that are new or that have changed in HTML 5, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order that reflects the natural progression a web developer follows in developing web sites and applications. The book's modular design also allows you to jump in and learn only what they need to know anywhere throughout the book.

In a series of 17 10-minute lessons, Hayes, an information architect, describes how to use HTML for those who already have basic computer skills. The graded lessons begin with the basics of HTML; creating a page; adding text and linking it to documents; adding style, lists, and tables; and using graphics. The chapters move on to mapping images, creating frames, online forms, sound and video, design, active web pages, web authoring tools, and web hosting. It includes HTML/XHTML, style sheet, and special characters quick references in the appendices.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In a series of 17 10-minute lessons, Hayes, an information architect, describes how to use HTML for those who already have basic computer skills. The graded lessons begin with the basics of HTML; creating a page; adding text and linking it to documents; adding style, lists, and tables; and using graphics. The chapters move on to mapping images, creating frames, online forms, sound and video, design, active web pages, web authoring tools, and web hosting. It includes HTML/XHTML, style sheet, and special characters quick references in the appendices. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Don't let a lack of free time keep you from learning HTML to build better websites! Sams Teach Yourself HTML in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition is a compact, task-oriented tutorial that will show you how to perform the most common tasks involved in designing, creating, publishing, and administering web pages and sites. The book covers only those HTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's web page, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order that reflects a natural progression. The book's modular design allows you to jump in and learn only what you need to know anywhere throughout the book. This fourth edition of the bestselling book is completely rewritten to make it even more accessible for the beginning Windows and Macintosh user. The easily accessible reference material and updated examples will help understand how to execute tasks to get the results you desire.

Deidre Hayes is an information architect with a web services group that created and manages a very successful corporate intranet. She continually is looking for ways to increase productivity with online workflow techniques and has spoken to national audiences on her favorite web-related topics: Information Design and Usability. She is a member of the Society for technical Communications, the Usability Professionals Association, and the HTML Writer's Guild.