A book in the new ‘Head FIrst’ series from O’Reilly. The point of the series is that it’s designed to be easy to learn from by using diagrams, conversations (interviews with CSS elements) and games (crosswords). They did some research into how most people learn and then used that research when making the book.
It’s a great beginner’s web design book. Not only does it teach you HTML and CSS, but it teaches how to use them to make good web pages. There’s discussion of web standards, of accessibility, and of best coding practices. It’s very thorough, I learned a few tidbits (like applying a line height to a div will apply that line height to all the elements in the div).
I’d definitely recommend it to someone just starting out who wants an overview of how to code HTML and CSS. As to whether the ‘Head First’ philosophy works, well, I’m all for anything that makes it easier to learn this stuff. I happen to be one of the strange ones who can read most manuals and learn it, but I do appreciate the well-written ones, and this is one of those.
You can check out Head First HTML (and other web design books) in the Cornercode Amazon Store.
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