It covers everything from an overview of the World Wide Web and Hyper Text Markup Language to designing and coding the CGI scripts. The style is relaxed. Many chapters have been written by experienced Web providers who offer not only a first-hand view of the Web but also lots of tips of the trade. Especially useful chapters review the anatomy of a form and several scripts providing tutorials on creating a form, an interactive graphic, a database front-end, and a dynamic document. The book has good clear examples, and is careful to distinguish any Netscape enhancements and extensions to HTML that are presented in the text.
Several chapters have lists of useful resources to learn more about topics.
Imagine a cookbook where you can test and taste every recipe before you try make it on your own. With The Web Page Design Cookbook, William Horton and his skilled team have created literally a cookbook where you can view almost every recommendation before trying it on your own. Thanks to the book's invaluable CD-ROM, and frequent pointers from text to digital examples, you can literally view a Web solution before coding away on your own. Like a cookbook, you don't read it from one end to another, you dive in where you need some help or a recipe to solve a specific situation. With great relief, just as an example, this cookbook helped me resolve a problem with tables that I couldn't resolve in any other way.