HTML Books

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I need a book.

More specifically to explain my situation:

The "guy who does the web site" in work is leaving us in the next week or two. He and his mate (who knows HTML!) set up the company's websites (three of them I think) ages ago, and have been maintaining them since. While he offers to help with the upkeep, it may be classed as a "clash of interests" by the company he's joining, so being the next "least technically challenged" in the office, I've been asked to step into his shoes.

I've never done any web design, just some fortran and one or two other programming languages that I don't remember, so probably won't help. I'm pretty quick to learn, and think I'm starting to make some sense of the code that has landed in front of me by reading through it and referring to various internet sites. Whilst this may seem backward, I find that having a real book in front of me for reference is infinitely better than having to switch tabs/windows to get help.

I'll definitely be referring to the stickies on this subject, but when it comes to RTFM I want to get TFM

What would anyone recommend to get as a reference/learning tool that might get me able to proficiently update the websites by april (when the pay reviews are due :smoke: )?
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I learned about 1-1/2 years ago and the one I used was kind of silly (almost kid like) but worked really good for me as I have the mind of a 2nd grader. It is called "Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML" by Eric & Elizabeth Freeman.

Now if you have an old site you may have tables to deal with and this one doesn't cover those very well as tables are becoming a thing of the past. Even though the book I used seemed simple it covered the material very well and I now consider myself pretty accomplished.

I used it as a spring board to PHP and can now "generate" my own HTML if I want. You will learn fast I am sure.

Good luck!
 
I can recommend W3Schools as an online resource, they have loads of tutorials on all aspects of web design and coding.
 

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