HTML:
A Beginner’s Guide
Fourth Edition
About the Author
Wendy Willard is a freelance consultant offering design and art
direction services to clients. She also teaches and writes on these
topics, and is the author of several other books including Web
Design: A Beginner’s Guide (also published by McGraw-Hill).
She holds a degree in Illustration from Art Center College of
Design in Pasadena, California, where she first learned HTML
in 1995.
Wendy enjoys all aspects of digital design, reading, cooking,
and anything related to the Web. She lives and works in Maryland
with her husband, Wyeth, and their two daughters.
About the Technical Editor
Todd Meister has been developing and using Microsoft
technologies for over ten years. He’s been a technical editor on
over 50 titles ranging from SQL Server to the .NET Framework.
Besides serving as a technical editor for titles, he is an assistant
director for Computing Services at Ball State University in
Muncie, Indiana. He lives in central Indiana with his wife,
Kimberly, and their four remarkable children.
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