Steve Callihan's Web Books

Learn HTML In a Weekend, 4th Edition
Learn HTML 4 In a Weekend, now out in a 4th Edition, has garnered enthusiastic responses from readers for its "plain English" tutorials on basic, intermediate, and more advanced HTML 4.01 features.
HTML was conceived from the beginning as something the average user can easily learn and use. You don't have to be a techy or programmer to learn HTML. HTML is for everyone! You don't have to finish the whole book in a weekend, to say you know HTML -- just complete the first two sessions to learn enough HTML to begin creating your own effective and attractive Web pages right away. Everything else is frosting on the cake -- choose from the remaining optional and bonus sessions to finish out your weekend, leaving any sessions you skip for another weekend.

Order Learn HTML 4 In a Weekend, 4th Edition from Amazon.com for $16.99. You save $8.00 (32% off).

"After just 3 days, I managed to create an interactive frame-based professional-looking website which has already generated customers for my business.... What more do you need to know?" -- from a customer review of Learn HTML In a Weekend, 3rd Edition, at Amazon.co.uk.

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Example
My latest book, which covers using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to design web pages and sites that are visually richer, more efficient, and accessible. Rated by reader reviews at Amazon.com and Amazon.co uk at out of five!
The current generation of browsers (IE 5 & 6, Netscape 6, and Opera 5 & 6) all support virtually all of CSS1 and much of CSS2 -- the time for CSS is now! CSS allows you to create web designs that are impossible in HTML -- specify any font size, add margins and padding to any element, set borders and backgrounds for any element, position elements anywhere on the page, and much, much more. Learning the basics of CSS is easy -- anybody can start using CSS right away to enhance the appearance and impact of their web pages.

Order Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Example from Amazon.com for $20.99. You save $9.00 (30% off).

"I can't tell you how pleasantly surprised I was when I worked thru this book. It is filled with explanations and examples to work thru and covers all the important topics of CSS." -- from a customer review at Amazon.com.

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Create Your First Web Page In a Weekend, 3rd Edition
My first book, now out in a 3rd Edition. Rated by 14 out of 17 reader reviews at Amazon.com at out of five!
Read up on the Web (Friday Evening), learn basic HTML (Saturday Morning) and intermediate HTML (Saturday Afternoon, learn all about creating HTML tables (Saturday Evening), and do hands-on sessions to plan your first web page (Sunday Morning), create your first web page (Sunday Afternoon), and create web art special effects using Paint Shop Pro (Sunday Evening). In the appendixes: Web publishing resources, a special characters chart, background sounds, hit counters, guestbooks, Java applets, and animations, and a tutorial on using an FTP program, WS_FTP LE, to transfer your web pages up onto the Web.

Order Create Your First Web Page In a Weekend, 3rd Edition from Amazon.com for $17.49. You save $7.50 (30% off).

"I'll give this book a perfect 10. Why? Because the book kept the promise of it's title and taught me to create my first web page in a weekend." -- from a customer review at Amazon.com.

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Create Your First Mac Web Page In a Weekend
My top-rated first book, now out in an edition especially written especially for Mac and iMac users!
Read up on the Internet and the Web (Friday Evening), learn Basic HTML (Saturday Morning) and Intermediate HTML (Saturday Afternoon) using the SimpleText text editor, learn to use Adobe PageMill 3.0 to create and maintain complex web sites (Saturday Evening), plan and create four first web page (Sunday Morning and Afternoon), and create web art special effects using the AppleWorks' Painting and Drawing modules (Sunday Evening). Appendixes include: a directory of web publishing resources; a special characters chart; a Tables tutorial; and a tutorial on using an FTP program, Fetch, to transfer your web page files up onto a Web server.

Order Create Your First Mac Web Page In a Weekend from Amazon.com for $17.49. You save $7.50 (30% off).

"I recently purchased your book Create Your First Mac Web Page. I absolutely love it! I thought that HTML was something that you have to pay out bookoos of $$ for and attend years of school to learn. You have presented the subject very clearly, and I feel like I can create an outstanding page (to hopefully be uploaded soon!) with the knowledge I gained from the book." -- from a reader response.

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Learn HTML on the Mac In a Weekend
A new edition of my top-selling HTML book especially written for Mac and iMac users!
Read up on the Web (Friday Evening), learn Basic HTML (Saturday Morning), learn Intermediate HTML (Saturday Afternoon), and then create HTML tables (Saturday Evening). Create framed web pages (Sunday Morning) and web forms (Sunday Afternoon). And then learn how to create your own web art special effects (Sunday Evening). After the weekend, learn to add GIF animations, image maps, hit counters, guestbooks, roll-over buttons, Java applets, and more.

Order Learn HTML on the Mac In a Weekend from Amazon.com for $17.49. You save $7.50 (30% off).

"Learn HTML on the Mac in a Weekend was a great book!...I'm eleven years old...I was so stuck to it I couldn't put it down. It's excellent! I've established two websites so far." -- from a reader response.

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Create FrontPage 2000 Web Pages In a Weekend
I'm the co-author on this book, along with Lisa D. Wagner. Lay the foundations (Friday Evening), add flair and function (Saturday Morning), learn about linking, bookmarks, shared borders, and navigation bars (Saturday Afternoon), create tables and forms (Saturday Evening), learn to use web components, including hit counters, hover buttons, search forms, and more (Sunday Morning), organize and maintain your files, view reports, and complete web tasks (Sunday Afternoon), and create Web art special effects with Image Composer or PhotoDraw 2000 (Sunday Evening). The appendixes cover publishing your pages, creating forms, adding multimedia, web site promotion, password protection, publishing databases, and adding Java applets and ActiveX controls. Visit my co-author's site. Top

Earlier Editions
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Last Updated: November 28, 2000