Fun to Read, Accurate to the Max.
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Reading this book allows someone to create five different styles and types of Websites by walking the reader through accessing Composer and desired templates, altering the text, color, and photos to personalize each Webpage, obtain a host provider, register a domain name, and publish each Webpage to a Web server.

* Chapter 1 introduces the basic functions of what a browser and Web page are, while showing the reader how to down load a free software program provided with the book.

* Chapter 2 describes the logistics of setting up a public location for viewing Web pages on the Internet by locating a host provider.

* Chapter 3 discuses customizing a Family/Personal Website template by using Composer like any other word processor, adding or deleting pages, and saving with a URL to the same folder located on the reader's computer.

* Chapter 4 continues with detailed items in "Creating a Hobby Website" by scaling images, changing existing hyperlinks, adding rows, discussing anchors, and the effect they have on sharing information with Website viewers.

* Chapter 5 "Creating a Website for an Organization" introduces obtaining a map from the Internet to replace the templates generic sample, offering email access to customers, and providing additional tips.

* Chapter 6 "Creating an Informational Website for Your Business" shows how to customize color within cells, add tables for creating coupons, and setting navigational hyperlinks.

* Chapter 7 "Creating an Online Storefront" deals with how to implement an e-Commerce Website by merging with "Creating Paypal Merchant Account" Website. With this tool, advanced programming skills that are typically required to create a shopping cart, a means to accept payment, and the functions of using forms for transferring users from one Website to another are eliminated. This lifts those advanced tasks off the reader and transfers them onto Paypal's Website in exchange for a small percentage of the product profit.

* The Bonus Chapter goes into more depth covering specific topics, like HTML, Understanding How the Internet Works, Domain names, and Optimizing Your Digital Pictures.

Throughout this book, the author highlights topics that have been covered in Shelly Cashman's "Discovering Computers" text book. One is how the Internet works. Scott Mitchell relates the Internet to the U.S. post office and adds a picture that gives a simple analogy for beginners. I appreciated the comparison, and could visualize the delivery process of digital information clearly (Mitchell 130).

The second item introduced in chapter 2 explained the concept of bandwidth. Mitchell shares very practical information related to space and cost that should be considered when choosing a host provider. The nominal comparisons made corresponding to bandwidth gave me a better appreciation for this concept.

The title "Create Your Own Website Using What You Already Know" very accurately describes what to expect out of the contents and functionality this book provides. The reader will be happy to know that the author's voice is very excited to share information in a reassuring way. Scott Mitchell continually keeps the reader in touch with the fact that the process he is laying out will be fun and easy to do, that the reader will not only learn the process but enjoy going through it.

I found the way the information was presented kept the progression of details simple enough for a first timer to feel very comfortable using and exploring all the items introduced.
3665660
Enjoyable read. Lighthearted, but oh so true.
1263218
So this is not a complex piece of literature, but it is fun to read. Brain candy.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
1383548
Quick read, fine tip for easy use.  Very Accurate
3854658
This was, as expected, a fun read. Standage does a great job describing methods of communication throughout history and shows, pretty convincingly, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
1030176
Good fun to read. Oh,so that's how he did it.....sort of book. Not in great depth,but a nice read. I'd buy it again.
753620
For reading that passes the time and keeps your interest, this is a winner.  Easy to understand, the story moves along pretty well and is (mostly) believable.
4315950
It's always good to see an author has done their homework. I could do with a few less explanations of acronyms or who's who.. but it has its place I suppose, it wasn't too distracting. The action was simple and succinct, and pretty dang accurate. Kudos all around.  8^)
4650515
Thorough, easy to read, loaded with tips. Actually enjoyable reading, even in the stress of looking forward to an operation
1743104
A lot of people writing reviews here are taking this book way too seriously, just as too many people take B.O. too seriously. This book is simply fun ... as anyone who watches the O'Reilly Show regularly can attest, the book is pretty accurate, and I know I'll never be able to watch Bill again without thinking of certain passages in the book, but then I never took B.O. to be a journalist in the first place, so nothing has really changed.

The "O'Reilly Factor" is just good fun -- tabloid, right-wing propaganda, with some faked indignation thrown in for good measure. I don't think anyone with an I.Q. above room temperature thinks B.O. believes half the things he says -- he just knows his audience, and what they want to hear, and he gives it to them. In a sense, he's a good deal like Howard Stern, another tall, goofy radio guy who knows his audience and profits by that knowledge.

Bill knows that a good portion of the people who watch his show are pretty conservative, and enjoy hearing a guy who pretends to be nonbiased tell them what they already believe. He pretends his comments are coming from some "independent center" of the political spectrum, which gives his conservative rants more weight.

Anyone who doesn't recognize how much of a Republican Bill is is too dumb to argue with anyway. Even other conservatives recognize that he's not "fair and balanced": Tucker Carlson's comment about Fox News is perfect for Bill too -- "The reason they call themselves fair and balanced is just to piss off the Democrats."

But, back to the book ... it's hilarious in spots, and unless you're some sort of Ann Coulter clone who lost your sense of humor years ago, you'll enjoy it (as I'm sure Bill does in the privacy of his home when no one's looking). Readers should understand that the authors do to Bill exactly what he does to the guests he doesn't agree with -- they're not even trying to be fair to him, any more than he tries to be fair to the liberals, moderates, lefties, secularists and other "progressive degenerates" he pretends to be so overwrought about.

People who read this book need to realize that this book isn't revealing some deep dark secrets about B.O. -- it's merely pointing out (and enjoying) what should be obvious to any regular viewer. Conservatives don't need to get all worked up that their hero is being shown for the blowhard he is ... Bill already knows he's a blowhard, and he's laughing all the way to the bank ... it's his schtick!

The people who are angry about this book probably think that Ann Coulter really feels strongly about the things she says too. Both of them are making big piles of money, with no visible talents or areas of expertise, and they're enjoying every minute of it ... and so should we. After all, the authors of this book had the sense to realize they could make a quick pile of cash just by watching Bill's show and reading his books, and having some fun with the whole experience, so why shouldn't everyone else in the audience.

If you're smart and you're already familiar with B.O.'s work, you won't learn anything new about him that you didn't already know, but you'll have an awfully good time with this book, and in times like these, aren't we entitled to enjoy politics a little? Relax, it's tabloid TV, and this is the appropriate reporting style to cover it -- it isn't Tom Friedman talking about the fate of mankind, so have a good time with it. This book isn't meant to be any more of an educational experience than "The Factor" is.
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This book was great fun to read.  You may wonder why there are some reviews that are so harsh and vehement negative.  I think politics be the clue.

The writer seems (well, to me) to be referring to George when he writes: "The president was a boob, a brainless figurehead who had a talent for winning elections but little else."  There are enough references to the VP and Secretary of Defense to create a sense if currency in his descriptions of the immoral executive branch of the government.  The Secretary of Defense describes the protaganists as "professors, probably ultraliberal Looney Tunes" reflecting some of the attitudes of the current administration.

I'll bet political disagreements with the author are the real sources of the vehemence of the negative reviews.  The percentages seem about right. :)
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Sam Kwan writes with a wit and tone that doesn't take itself too seriously while still impressing on the reader the awesomeness and magnitude of the periodic table and the elements. This work cuts through minutiae to convey to the layman the importance, and in some cases the weirdness, of physics and chemistry at the atomic level. A ton of fun to read.
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I didn't fact check this book, so I don't know how accurate the details are, but they certainly rang true.  Enjoyable and entertaining, and well worth the price of admission.  I look forward to reading more from this author.
1430713
very easy to read and yes understand...enjoyed the humor, also.
4431238
I wasn't sure about these before  I bought them but they are good reading, fun, and very accurate.  Author clearly knows his AA and I am guessing has visited the places he uses, they aren't based on research.  Adds authenticity.
1629115
Fun, easy to read and even a little silly at times. The dialogues are moderately funny and the plot is a little predictable, but there weren't orthographic mistakes that I could notice. A nice, fast read.
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This really is fun to read, especially since a meteorologist wrote it, taking pains to talk about how weather really works, large and small scales - as far as he (and others) know.  This leads into a main likeable feature of "Climate Confusion":  science, and scientists do NOT know everything.  Or even as much as most laymen think.  Roy Spencer's constant caveats about what we, including most climate alarmists, actually know remind us that there is much, much more to learn about the zillion interacting force and matter transfers occurring in the atmosphere every moment, all affecting weather and climate in some way.

Since determining how much, and in what direction, mankind is altering climate (or maybe many directions at once) then determines what should be done (or not done), we must not be overly hasty to spend valuable resources just to "do something."  Chapter 6 spends time talking through the economics, in general, of such spending.  The worst we can do are the wrong, expensive things that actually cause greater damage to the climate.  He spends a couple chapters giving examples of some dumb things we can do, and some smarter things.

The strength of this book is its readability, its straightforward prose.  The examples are helpful in understanding the explanations, although the reader might wish for just a few more.  As a scholarly work, this would not do, as Spencer has no endnotes.  On the other hand, this fact makes the book easier to get though.  Without references, the book resembles a very long feature column.  Well worth reading.