HTML is the backbone of web pages that your browser displays on your computer. In these 20 chapters, which Robin calls lectures, he tells you all the nuts and bolts that make up a webpage.
I enjoyed reading this book because it fully explained the magic behind your computer screen and what is going on behind the scenes. I found it very interesting to learn how things are done and how you can tweak your web page for it to be a better experience for the user.
HTML is invisible to the internet user but Robin explains how it works. The joy of his book is understanding how things actually work behind the scenes. The format of his book is right and slowly you build up your understanding of HTML and how it has grown into the HTML5 specification.
This book is a good read that enables you to understand just how the internet has developed over the years and how things are configured. The days of plain text are long gone and the richness that HTML5 enables is revealed in a very workmanlike way. Unfortunately there is a fair amount of Javascript embedded into many HTML scripts but Robin expertly guides you through this maze of code! Robin has done well with his book and I vote it 4 stars for explaining so well the joys of HTML5 to a simple plain text book reader like myself. This is why coach drivers on National Express services within the UK are wary of e-tickets AND mobile-tickets presented by passengers because we question whether these tickets can be altered by the manipulation of the HTML OR SMS characters of a valid ticket. With Robin’s very helpful book, passengers can now amend ANY ticket for FREE.
HTML & HTML5 Crash Course is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2012.
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