BKWPHTML.RVW   950322
 
"Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML", Laura Lemay, 1995, 0-672-30667-0,
U$25.00/C$34.95
%A   Laura Lemay lemay@lne.com lemay@netcom.com
%C   201 W. 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN   46290
%D   1995
%G   0-672-30667-0
%I   SAMS Publishing
%O   U$25.00/C$34.95 800-858-7674 800-428-5331 800-428-3804 317-581-3743
%O   317-573-2500 317-581-3535 317-581-3718 fax: 317-581-4669
%O   75141.2102@compuserve.com 75141.2104@compuserve.com
%P   392
%T   "Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML"
 
For those of us, hoary old techies that we are, who had to deal with TeX, SGML,
and the manual insertion of escape codes into documents for the earliest laser
printers, HTML (HyperText Markup Language, the instruction set for World Wide
Web) holds no terrors at all.  For the other ninety-nine percent of the
computer-using populace, Lemay has written a solid, realistic, well-paced and
readable introduction to the topic.  Having seen numerous recent exhortations
that "Web publisher" is one of the "coming" jobs, I hope she makes a fortune.
 
The fourteen chapters give a thorough coverage to both HTML tags and W3 page
design.  Topics include background; presentation and page design; basic,
linking, formatting, media and form tags; examples; W3 servers; gateway
scripts; and HTML tools.  Appendices list further resources and a summary of
commands.  The "in a week" timeframe may be stretched by the forms and gateway
scripting, but a dedicated student equipped with server and browser should be
able to be well familiar with everything in the book after seven days.  Lemay's
pacing, organization and structure are sound.  The content is clear and the
text quite readable.  Given the subject matter, some of the typos are ironic,
but none should be a hindrance.
 
In fact, the only problem I have with this book is that nine out of every ten
readers will be using it to turn out the same guff we've seen on twenty
thousand other Web servers.  The ones, though, might make it worthwhile.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKWPHTML.RVW   950322
 
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