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Book Review: Creating a Web Page With HTML: Visual Quick Project Guide

HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML), one of the programming languages used to create documents for the World Wide Web, has become so ubiquitous that its acronym has become the default label for almost anything found online. But the ever-evolving world of Web design is not that simple. In reality, HTML is governed by a strict set of guidelines released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a working group of programmers who strive to standardize the way Web designers create documents and the way that browsers display them. The W3C’s “recommendations,” although not binding on designers or software developers, are generally accepted as the foundation of best practices for the Web. To make matters even more complicated, the W3C has thrown HTML (last updated to HTML 4.01) by the wayside and turned its attention to eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), a hybrid language that is designed to help programmers write well formed documents now, before forthcoming browser upgrades make some Web documents obsolete. Trying to keep track of the endless progression of programming languages is enough to make most novice learners—students and teachers alike—break out in a cold sweat. The number of how-to books on the subject is overwhelming, and each book itself may be too much to handle, especially in a business communication classroom where Web design is only one of many topics in the curriculum. A brief sampling of the recent crop of HTML books illustrates the problem. The fifth edition of HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (2002), checks in at 670 pages; and despite its title, Web Design in a Nutshell (Niederst, 2001) is a hefty 640 pages. Even a book aimed at nontechnical learners, The Non-Designer’s Web Book (Williams & Tollett, 2000), is 304 pages—much too long to be used as a