Comments on: Open-thread: Must have HTML, CSS and JavaScript books? http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/ A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elaine http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-83658 Elaine Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:15:15 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-83658 Usually that sort of thing works for me -- how I learned HTML, CSS, and PHP -- but for some reason I had this terrible mental block around JavaScript. The book got me through the block so I could actually comprehend all that other stuff. :) Usually that sort of thing works for me — how I learned HTML, CSS, and PHP — but for some reason I had this terrible mental block around JavaScript. The book got me through the block so I could actually comprehend all that other stuff. :)

]]> By: Elaine http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-92925 Elaine Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:15:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-92925 Usually that sort of thing works for me -- how I learned HTML, CSS, and PHP -- but for some reason I had this terrible mental block around JavaScript. The book got me through the block so I could actually comprehend all that other stuff. :) Usually that sort of thing works for me — how I learned HTML, CSS, and PHP — but for some reason I had this terrible mental block around JavaScript. The book got me through the block so I could actually comprehend all that other stuff. :)

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-82434 tiffany Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:12:37 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-82434 Ah, yes, <span class="book title">Don’t Make Me Think</span> is amazing reading. I liked <span class="book title">DOM Scripting</span>, but I think I learned just as much by tinkering with the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript" rel="nofollow">Mozilla JavaScript documentation</a>, reading blogs, and searching Google. Ah, yes, Don’t Make Me Think is amazing reading. I liked DOM Scripting, but I think I learned just as much by tinkering with the Mozilla JavaScript documentation, reading blogs, and searching Google.

]]> By: tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-92924 tiffany Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:12:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-92924 Ah, yes, Don’t Make Me Think is amazing reading. I liked DOM Scripting, but I think I learned just as much by tinkering with the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript" rel="nofollow">Mozilla JavaScript documentation</a>, reading blogs, and searching Google. Ah, yes, Don’t Make Me Think is amazing reading. I liked DOM Scripting, but I think I learned just as much by tinkering with the Mozilla JavaScript documentation, reading blogs, and searching Google.

]]> By: Elaine http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-82355 Elaine Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:10:34 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-82355 I like the later editions of the visual quickstart HTML/CSS books as teaching tools. For JavaScript, I can't recommend DOM Scripting highly enough. (I've been doing this web thing since '98, and for whatever reason could never get my head around JS. I read DOM Scripting last year, and it clicked.) Joe Clark's Building Accessible Websites is a classic, as is Don't Make Me Think -- for getting out beyond the basics. I like the later editions of the visual quickstart HTML/CSS books as teaching tools.

For JavaScript, I can’t recommend DOM Scripting highly enough. (I’ve been doing this web thing since ’98, and for whatever reason could never get my head around JS. I read DOM Scripting last year, and it clicked.)

Joe Clark’s Building Accessible Websites is a classic, as is Don’t Make Me Think — for getting out beyond the basics.

]]> By: Elaine http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-92923 Elaine Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:10:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-92923 I like the later editions of the visual quickstart HTML/CSS books as teaching tools. For JavaScript, I can't recommend DOM Scripting highly enough. (I've been doing this web thing since '98, and for whatever reason could never get my head around JS. I read DOM Scripting last year, and it clicked.) Joe Clark's Building Accessible Websites is a classic, as is Don't Make Me Think -- for getting out beyond the basics. I like the later editions of the visual quickstart HTML/CSS books as teaching tools.

For JavaScript, I can’t recommend DOM Scripting highly enough. (I’ve been doing this web thing since ’98, and for whatever reason could never get my head around JS. I read DOM Scripting last year, and it clicked.)

Joe Clark’s Building Accessible Websites is a classic, as is Don’t Make Me Think — for getting out beyond the basics.

]]> By: patricia http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-82354 patricia Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:05:33 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-82354 No doubt it's been updated but the HTML 4 Bible was unbelievably helpful to me. Hell, it was so good the person I lent it to, up and stole it. long story. Regardless, the book was easy to follow and instructive. As for CSS, for me, it doesn't get better than Eric's books. It just all makes sense coming from him. No doubt it’s been updated but the HTML 4 Bible was unbelievably helpful to me. Hell, it was so good the person I lent it to, up and stole it. long story. Regardless, the book was easy to follow and instructive. As for CSS, for me, it doesn’t get better than Eric’s books. It just all makes sense coming from him.

]]> By: patricia http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-92922 patricia Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:05:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-92922 No doubt it's been updated but the HTML 4 Bible was unbelievably helpful to me. Hell, it was so good the person I lent it to, up and stole it. long story. Regardless, the book was easy to follow and instructive. As for CSS, for me, it doesn't get better than Eric's books. It just all makes sense coming from him. No doubt it’s been updated but the HTML 4 Bible was unbelievably helpful to me. Hell, it was so good the person I lent it to, up and stole it. long story. Regardless, the book was easy to follow and instructive. As for CSS, for me, it doesn’t get better than Eric’s books. It just all makes sense coming from him.

]]> By: Karsh http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-82309 Karsh Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:40:34 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-82309 I'd also recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stylin-CSS-Designers-Guide-VOICES/dp/0321305256" rel="nofollow">Stylin' with CSS</a> by Charles Wyke-Smith and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/HTML-Utopia-Designing-Without-Tables/dp/0975240277/" rel="nofollow">HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS</a> by Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer. I’d also recommend Stylin’ with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith and HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer.

]]> By: Karsh http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/comment-page-1/#comment-92921 Karsh Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:40:00 +0000 http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/06/22/great-html-css-javascript-books/#comment-92921 I'd also recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stylin-CSS-Designers-Guide-VOICES/dp/0321305256" rel="nofollow">Stylin' with CSS</a> by Charles Wyke-Smith and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/HTML-Utopia-Designing-Without-Tables/dp/0975240277/" rel="nofollow">HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS</a> by Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer. I’d also recommend Stylin’ with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith and HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer.

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