Cover of Head First HTML

First and foremost, I am a persistence layer software developer. I don’t do much UI work and what little UI work I do usually involves rich client UIs. I rarely do any web UI work.

Having said that, I think it’s important to know at least a little bit about web UI technologies, even if you are a back-end developer. Why? Well, at the very least, you will be able to understand the vocabulary of the UI guys you work with. Furthermore, you never know when you might have to look for a new job and there’s a good chance they’ll want you to know about some of that web UI stuff.

With that in mind, I recently picked up a copy of Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML to see if I could learn a thing or two. I just finished the book and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. …Continue reading » Book Review: Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML