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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, 6th Edition

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Editorial Reviews

Spin your own web! Free CD-ROM included.

More people are overcoming their digital fears and producing Internet content rather than just absorbing it. Whether their product is a collection of essays, stories, reviews, jokes, or shopping lists, they want to share it with everyone—from family and friends to strangers across the globe. How do they do it? By starting right here. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Creating a Web Page and Blog—the only book of its kind— will help anyone build and maintain an Internet website or blog. Coverage includes:

• Step-by-step instructions for building a site from the ground up
• Important HTML tags
• Tips on using fonts, colors, and images
• Incorporating tables, forms, style sheets, and JavaScripts
• The new blog technology
• Plus! A "Webmaster’s Toolkit" on a companion CD-ROM, providing files used in this book.

Customer Reviews

Best Book Ever (or at least one of the most useful)

Reviewed by S. Penatzer, 2009-11-08

Everything I need to know about HTML I learned from this book. Bought for an introductory primer to web design, this contained enough information to create a fully functional and well designed web page. Doesn't get into Java, XML, or php/ MySQL web scripts, but for the basics this book ROCKS. Well written, well organized, and very concise, it still remains my primary reference source for HTML coding.

This book is OK, if you are a three year old.

Reviewed by Marty, 2009-11-02

I found this book to be properly detailed, but way too silly for my taste. The author's style is whimsical and folksy that I found to be too junvenal for me. If he had stripped out all the silliness and gotten right to the point I would have been more satisfied. But, I'm over 50 so maybe it's just me.

From J. Kaye's Book Blog

Reviewed by J. Kaye, 2008-12-05

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web & Blog" (2004 edition) by Paul McFedries teaches the nuts and bolts to creating a web page and or blog. Part one starts it out with HTML, which is the programming language, used to issue instructions to web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape or Mozilla. Also included are topics as lists, hyperlinks, and hosting your website.

Part two has images, tables, multimedia, forms, frames, and web page style. Part three is about blogs. Part four contains style sheets, which is part of CSS.

My recommendation? Start with "Building a Website for Dummies" and then move to "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web & Blog". Either way, you will learn enough to build your own blog, make it personally yours, and what to do with it.

Can Build a Pretty Web Page Using Only this Book!

Reviewed by Adina Cappell, 2008-02-27

I was afraid that, since it was published in 2004, this book would already be outdated. However, it provided the perfect step-by-step instructions that I needed to build a basic web page from scratch (and to even make it pretty with frames, colors, and tables!)

One minor complaint is that it took me a LOT of extra time and phone calls to the web hosting company even once my HTML was all in place and my web page was ready to go. I had to coordinate for the domain name, web server, and ftp program to all be in sync with one another to actually get my page to show up on the net, and that is more difficult than it sounds for a neophyte. In the next edition, I would make that part a bit more comprehensive, perhaps better showing step-by-step how to get all those elements coordinated.

I would also maybe give provide suggestions on where I could find good beginner's resources for building common specific functions that require programming, such as message boards or info that comes up based on "drop- down" menu choices. I know that programming was outside the scope of the book, but it is very difficult for novices to figure out where to go next to implement simple programs, without wading through an endless sea of java text information sites geared towards experienced programmers.

All in all, I was VERY satisfied with the amount of useful, easy to understand info I was able to gain in a short time by reading this book.

Above the rest!

Reviewed by M. Parmelee, 2007-12-07

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, 6th Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

I can't say much more than the other reviewers, but I will say this:
Having very basic knowlegde of HTML and scripting, and after reading the first couple of chapters, I was able to start setting up my "practice" page. It's kind of a rush seeing what you created in a web browser, pre-publish of course :), and I'm only on Chapter 5. McFedries book is very page-by-page, with good explanations of the what's, why's, and how's. I actually look forward to each new step in the creation process. I have a couple of other books, and they have mispelled words, improper grammer, etc., point being McFedries and his team pay attention to detail. I highly recommend this book to anyone that thinks coding is beyond their reach. (Guess I had more to say than I thought)