Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week. - book reviews

Hypertext markup language is clunky and inflexible. But until more elegant alternatives appear, HTML remains the Web's only tongue: you must learn it to do your own writing for the Web. Fortunately, Lauro Lemay delivers on her title's promise. By following her clear sequence of explanations, examples and exercises, even the obsolute Web novice as I can personally attest) con create serviceable documents within a few days, Better, she moves quickly beyond mechanics to techniques and tools for designing maximally effective and attractive presentations in spite of the medium's limitations.

* For smaller or simpler Web presentations, or presentations with a simple logical structure, storyboarding may be unnecessary. But for larger and more complex projects, the existence of a storyboard can save enormous amounts of time and frustration. If you can't keep all the parts of your content and their relationships in your head, consider doing a storyboard.

* Keep in mind as you write that your reader could jump into any of your Web pages from anywhere. Although you may have structured things such that section four distinctly follows section three and has no other links to it, someone you don't even know might create a link to the page starting section four, and a reader could very well find himself or herself on section four without being aware that section three exists.

Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week Laura Lemay. Sams, 1995; 397 pp. ISBN 0-672-30667-0 $25 ($28 postpaid) from Macmillan Computer Publishing, Attn: Order Dept, 201 W. 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290; 800/428-5331 or on the Web from http://www.mcp.com/ or by gopher from gopher.mcp.com or by ftp from ftp.mcp.com

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