Dave's Quick 'n' Easy Web Pages

by Dave Lindsay

At 11 years old, the author created a fan Web page for Brian Jacques's "Redwall" series, which soon became the official "Redwall" site. Teenage Dave Lindsay now presents this book to answer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0969060971
• ISBN13: 9780969060970
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Erin Pubns
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 5.8" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

HTML Simplified

When I agreed(okay, well, volunteered)to recreate a section of my employer's website I was, perhaps, a bit too confident in my skills. I am by no means computer illiterate, but I had very little experience with HTML and all else that is needed to design a webpage. I was to be working with a well known web development program and tried as best I could to learn through the tutorials and such. Ha. Let's just say that didn't work out so well. And this program is suppose to make things easy. One of those, "even idiots can use this because this and that are already done for you" type things. But I guess I like doing things the hard way.And that's where *Dave's Quick 'n' Easy Web Pages* came in. It details in very simple terms HTML coding, showing you what the page would look like in code and also what it would look like in a browser. Things like hyperlinks and how to insert become far less daunting with the instructions in this book.I don't think that it matters that it was written by a very young man or that the publisher has seen fit to classify it as a young adult text. I found it infinitely more useful and usable than a good deal of the other books I picked up for help.

A simple, highly practical guide for web designers

Dave's Quick 'n' Easy Web Pages: An Introductory Guide To Creating Web Sites is a simple, highly practical guide for web designers ranging from beginning to intermediate experience and skill. Individual chapters address hyperlinks, animated images, sound, tables, additional features like counters and message boards, and much more in this superb, "user friendly", compact primer that can teach anyone to get a basic web page up and running in almost no time at all!

Quick is the Operative Word

Up until recently, web pages held a certain mystique for me. Not any more. One of the reasons for that is this little 116 page book. Rather than load you up with a bunch of theory and technical jargon, Dave Lindsay gives you just what you need to get started. By the end of the first chapter (which is only nine pages), he has you creating your own basic web page. This all with the most basic of word processors (like Simpletext in MAC or Notepad for your PC)! With information conveniently contained in the back of the book, he even shows you how to obtain software to upload this basic web page, a server to host your site, and how to upload your page -- all for free.From there, the author guides you through more advanced techniques like adding sound, message banners and even animated images. This is really a lot more than I expected from a "basic" book, especially one that is just over 100 pages. For web design "newbies" that just want to get their feet wet, this is a great place to start. It's all written in plain English with the bare minimum of technical codes. As you go through the book and each new technique, they are illustrated to demonstrate how it changes your site.DAVE'S QUICK 'N' EASY is great for the person intimidated by technology or someone that just wants to dive right in, but doesn't know a lot about HTML (the language used to build web pages). For the complete novice or beginner, this book is like running a 100 meter dash. It gets you designing a web page in no time flat.

Great book for beginners

This book is a great book for beginners programming their first webpage, or, for that matter, programming a webpage at all. It skips most of the technical mumbo-jumbo that would confuse most people and cuts it down to what it needs to make a great webpage. This is one of the best books out there for beginners and pros alike.

Excellent for beginners!

This book is excellent for beginners! It explains things that would normally seem very complex in a simple, concise manner. It skips all the technical stuff that most other books feel you need to know, even though you don't. I got a page made for myself in just a few hours! I now use it to share photos and information with my family. I would recommend this for anyone who knows nothing about computers.