Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS3, 2nd Edition

I took a beginning web design class that required this book. After reading the reviews for the book I was worried that the class would be a dud, but I needed the class as a prerequisite to take another class.My class was an online class that relied on the book and the projects contained in it 100%.I really liked the book and the class and the projects. There's a web site where you download the project files to complete the projects in the book. Sometimes the project instructions are a little vague, but it makes you think and really apply what you learn.I would recommend this book for beginners.

Any beginning web developer should own this book!!! I rented it but will now be buying it, I liked it that much. Easy to navigate structure, incredibly informative, and able to portray complex instructions as elementary concepts for the beginners. This is a great book to use as a reference!

Most of this book is easy to follow and does give many good examples how to code correctly. There are areas which could be improved to give example codings for those who have trouble conceptualization or mentally visualizing what is needed to be done.For CSS, it could be mentioned if certain coding needs to be place in a specific area, or if each coding is stand-alone. This can be confusing for beginner web designers.The reason for 4 stars is for the areas in which are not defined enough to understand where coding is supposed to be set, especially in the .html file.

The book is good. It gives all the background and layout work for HTML and CSS coding.It was required reading for a class I am taking.It is just such a shame that the rates charged for textbooks are so high. It is required so you MUST get it and then they slam a hefty price tag on it. It isn't even a hardcover. $90. really??

Useful info, but literally everything in here can be googled and found elsewhere for free. Not even like "Piratebay" free, just literally feee on some websites like Codecademy or Kahn Academy.

For the price this is a good book to get started on HTML5 and CSS3. Make sure you get the resources that come with the book. Every chapter has hands-on-practice where you use the files from the resources.

I'm taking a Web Dev class and I bought this book for the value and was great on my Kindle app but about 1/2 way through my course I started to need student files to use for homework that was assigned. Digging into it, I realized that this digital book did not come with student files I needed! Very unhappy and not sure where to go from here but to the publisher where I assume will cost something. The book also doesn't do a very good job at describing how important it is to use comments in HTML and CSS. On a good note, the Kindle book is very easy to use and navigate and is also very handy to have.

Pretty good book it simplified everything to me and I didn't know any html and it allowed me to create a website for school. What also helped me was looking at html code at w3schools.com and seeing how it worked

Very helpful with good pictures. 😀

Surprisingly accessible and useful for a textbook, but very thin on content considering the price. It really is the basics, which would be fine if it was $30 instead of $130.