Long story short: after getting this book I am still an absolute beginner. I bought MS Frontpage a few months ago and needed something to help me to get my first web site going without having to become an expert in web design or rocket science. I suppose you could call me an absolute beginner.The problem is: this book is about authoring web sites using CODE. Text editors. Like programmers do. I am not a programmer or an engineer or anything like that. I am an absolute beginner. Let me tell you this - absolute beginners DO NOT USE code. They use wysiwig programmes. That is what defines us - we cannot use code (yet) because we are absolute beginners. That is what defines us. If we were at the level of graduating to code, we would not be absolute beginners anymore.
This is possibly a brilliant book, but I will never know it because I cannot even understand the introduction.
I feel that I have been misled. This book is not what it claims. It is NOT an "Absolute beginner's guide". The cover further states "No prior web publishing experience necessary!" This is bull. (Luckily, I also bought David Karlins' EXCELLENT book "Build your own web site", which helped me tremendously and thanks to which I now have a very nice web site, thank you very much). Karlins' book also makes no outrageous claims on the cover, but gives simple tips and instructions which even a fool - sorry, I meant to say absolute beginner - like me has no problems following.
I object to misleading advertising and packaging. I fell for this one. They could easily have indicated on the cover that this book is NOT for beginners and covers only code, but they chose not to. This book is not what it claims to be. Stay away.
