( 23 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 27 2009
A nice smooth read and nicely laid out, I highly recommend this book for anyone who is in need of information on creating a web site.
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Posted: Jun 24 2009
This book provides a great overview of web site creation that is not specific to one particular software package. I just finished a local community college site on web design and still had many unanswered questions as I looked to purchase web hosting services. This book is a great resource and answers many of questions and provided some answers I did not know I needed. This is a great highly readable book. It is a book that it clear even when jumping from place to place or reading through chapter to chapter.
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Posted: Jun 13 2009
Going through these reviews, like always there are reviewers dissing this book for missing the specifics they were hoping to find, or even being too old to cover what they wanted. Isn't that what publication dates are for in the descriptions? I've been knocking around websites for a dozen years. Had a couple of domain registrations, and even included ad hoc webmaster in one of my job descriptions. Soon I'll be teaching a class on web design in a high school. My bookshelf has 25+ books on different aspects of site creation. CSS, JS, AJAX, PHP, Linux and Apache server, assorted Adobe products, Perl, and some sysadmin pertaining to the configurations of the files available from Apache webhosts. When those don't have what I'm looking for, I have around 50 bookmarks for sites that can fill in the gaps from beginner to way beyond my expertise, with postings on subjects that are current right up until this morning. Impressed? Don't be, at least half of the reviewers here are more committed than I am. There are two types of folks that this book may not be for - a rank beginner who needs to start with the basics of page creation, Internet/networking, and intro programming. The other type being someone who hand-codes and/or is a pro (lots of pros use editors). For the rest of us, this book is worth reading cover-to-cover, which I generally try to avoid. Of course it could be edited to lose the discussions of version 3/4/5 browsers. Who cares? But even the most mundane sections on fonts, code conventions, color selection, links, etc, have nuggets in them. CSS explanations are clear and concise, and in sections that are clearly beyond the scope of the book there are suggestions for more advanced reading. This book is a survey of skills, tools, and considerations for building a website. Like most O'Reilly publications, in the hands of the target audience it is a great resource. In the case of Creating Web Sites, that audience is broad enough to include most of us.
