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Most books have a website that adds value to the original text publication. "HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS" is the text that adds value to the original website. To quote from the site's "about" page: "HTML Dog has been dishing out healthy code treats since 2003, and currently serves up around 1,500,000 page views a month. The idea is to take the somewhat convoluted official specs for XHTML and CSS and present them in a much more readable fashion". Since this is a book review and not a website review, I will endeavour to read HTML Dog as a single entity (for the moment, anyway) and see how it stands up on its own (four) legs.
I encountered a minor mystery straight away, but not one you'd expect. Both New Riders (Peachpit) and
Amazon list this book as 448 pages (as I have above) but the last page of the book (the end of the index) is
page 336. Even including all of the front matter, "HTML Dog" only weighs in at 365 pages by my count. I
began to wonder if I had a right editon but everything else matched up. Is this a big deal? Probably not. I'm just
wondering who is more math challenged...me or the publisher?
I only mention the page numbering because minus the two appendicies, the actual content of this book is
only 205 pages long...not very big at all to cover XHTML, CSS and a smattering of JavaScript. Then again, if
the site is the main content area and the book a supplement, perhaps the text doesn't have to be too big.
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