Understanding Web Development Interactive Workbook

by Arlyn Hubbell

2584D-2 Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters Want to be a Web professional? Start right here Understanding Web Development is the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to become a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013025844X
• ISBN13: 9780130258441
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good overview for a solid foundation

Arlyn Hubbell's "Understanding Web Development" provides for a solid grounding into the world of web design, HTML and the basic web technologies. For a beginner, this book is a good start to understanding how the World Wide Web works and what it takes to publish documents to it. For those who are more advanced in the field this book will probably not tell you anything new and you can take a pass on it (and stop reading here). If you are looking for the basics though, you've come to the right place.THE CONTENTS:Here are the topics that Hubbell addresses:1. Introduction to Webmaster's UNIX including FTP and managing your directories2. Pre-planning your web side including analyzing your audience and laying out your web site3. Basic HTML tags4. HTML text tags, image tags, lists and background tags5. Working with Tables6. Working with Frames7. Designing HTML Forms8. Server-Side technologies9. Restricting web site access through .htaccess10. Overview of CSSTHE ANALYSIS:Overall, this book is a great teaching and learning tool to the basics of web design. Hubbell has struck that fine balance between covering in good detail the basics of what you need to know versus information overload. Overall the book is very thorough and takes you through the web design process for beginning to end and it manages to do so without overwhelming you.Each chapter is broken up into small lessons and at the end there are exercises for you to follow. All of them are well designed and good you and good grounding into the basics. Hubbell also does a great job of presenting the various HTML tags. She goes over what they are and also thoroughly discusses the various switches that accompany them and their functions. She also includes the source code as well as a screen shot of what the completed web pages look like. While not going into things completely in depth on the source code as some other books do, this book accomplishes its task well, giving you a "basic" understanding of HTML. Students can easily go through and pick apart and learn the code on their own from the basics that Hubbell provides (which ultimately when you learn a programming language you're going to have to do anyway, pick it apart and do trial and error...).THE VERDICT:Overall, Hubbell does a fine job of covering the various technologies and issues that deal with web development. This book was used as a text for an e-commerce web design course I took during the Fall of 2002. Whether you are studying this subject independently or whether you are an instructor looking to use this book for your course, Hubbell's "Understanding Web Development" is a fine choice.Highly Recommended

I loved it!

The material was very relevant and the text was easy to read. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in a Web career.