Sams Teach Yourself HTML & XHTML in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition is a carefully organized tutorial that teaches the beginning Web page author just what he needs to know in order to get a Web page up in the shortest time possible. The book covers only those HTML and XHTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's Web page, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order that reflects the natural progression a new Web page author will follow in developing a Web site. The companion Web site contains all the examples from the book, complete with graphics and other additional elements, allowing the reader to see every task presented in the book live on the canvas of the World Wide Web. It also includes links to the Web publishing tools and resources mentioned in the book.

Dick Oliver ([email protected]) is the tall, dark, handsome author of lots of great books and software, including Web Page Wizardry, Netscape Unleashed, Create Your Own Web Page Graphics, and Tricks of the Graphics Gurus. He is also the president of Cedar Software and the warped mind behind the Nonlinear Nonsense Netletter at http://netletter.com (and many other Web sites). When he isn't banging on a keyboard, he's usually snowboarding, sledding, skiing, or warming up by the woodstove in his cozy northern Vermont home (where they celebrate a day of summer each year, too). He likes writing HTML, eating killer-spicy Indian food, and waltzing wildly around the office with his daughters-not necessarily in that order. He also thinks it's pretty cool that authors get to write their own About the Authors sections.

Charles Ashbacher ([email protected]) has led many lives. He started his work life as a construction laborer before he decided to use his head and went to college. Since then, he has been a college instructor, a programmer in physics research, a research scientist, and a software engineer. His current activities are writing, reviewing, editing, teaching community education classes, and serving as a freelance instructor and consultant for his company, Charles Ashbacher Technologies, where he is President and CEO. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics. When not pushing his favorite old mouse around, he can be found gardening, doing odd jobs for elderly widows, coaching youth sports, or spending time with his children Katrina, Steven, and Rebecca. You can visit his Web site at http://www.ashbacher.com/. He is also the author of four books, the latest being Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours.