November 22, 2005

Book Review: Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual

O'Reilly's press release reads - "With the real-world tips and tricks throughout this book, any reader can build a web site that looks like a 21st-century web site," promises Matthew MacDonald, author of the new "Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual" (O'Reilly, US $29.95). This practical and comprehensive guide explains web site fundamentals and the best techniques and tools for easily creating and maintaining a personal or small-business site that is visitor-friendly, thoroughly modern, and brimming with the slickest new features.

Whether creating a first page from scratch, or resurrecting an existing
site that's decidedly uncool, readers will learn the best way to build
great web sites--from concept phase through to web hosting, and make it
stand out with modern formatting practices. In fact, everything about the
book is modern: it uses style sheets (CSS) from the beginning, devotes a
whole chapter to blogging, and takes into account the hottest new browser
(FireFox).

MacDonald's "Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual" is a down-to-earth
tutorial that quickly brings even the most non-technical readers up to
speed on web language and the how-to's of web site building.

"Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual" is practical,
assures MacDonald: "The book doesn't cover every nook and cranny of HTML
if it's not useful or widely used--after all, who has time for a history
lesson? It does answer the questions that ordinary people really need
answered."

This witty and intelligent Missing Manual comes with all the vital
information, clear-headed advice, and detailed instructions people need to
make their ideas and vision a web reality.

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