This book is a must for those of us who love Bruno Zupan's work. And there are bonuses in the book for us and for those who will learn about Bruno's work for the first time: The book is beautiful-a work of art in its own right, as are Jane Zupan's photography and her prose!

This is yet another learn-by-example book. It's geared towards the total beginner who knows neither HTML nor XHTML and wants to start making some static webpages within an hour of taking the book home.
It's not a bad book. It does have a some good coding examples for doing some basic things along with plenty of screen prints. However, for the same money or less, there are much better books that cover all the material in this book and then some.
For someone who is just starting with web pages and wants a starter book that is inexpensive and really is "fast and easy", I recommend "HTML 4 for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide" by Elizabeth Castro. Once you've gotten your feet wet with a little HTML and are ready for some more details on HTML as well as getting a start with XHTML, you can move on to "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition", by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy. This book costs about the same as "XHTML Fast & Easy ..." but covers so much more.
"XHTML Fast & Easy ..." does get you started a little bit, but often leaves you hanging. For example, in the chapter on FORMS, the authors walk you through creating a form with the promise that, at the end of the chapter, they will show you how to collect the data in the form via CGI. When you get to the end of the chapter they basically tell you 1) download some CGI scripts from some website [nevermind how to use them] or, better yet, go out and learn how to program in PERL, 2) even if you really do this, it probably won't matter since most of the Web hosts that beginners tend to use don't allow CGI scripts to run on their servers.
The book is not great, but also not useless, so if it ever shows up in one of the bargain bins or publisher's overstock tables at your local bookstore for five or ten bucks, it may be worth picking up as a supplement . . . otherwise, there are much, much better choices.

Most people would say that this book is just a review of how to write proper HTML 4.0. DUH! Basically, that is what XHTML is. It is simply how to write "well-formed" HTML pages. This book will tell you how to write well-formed pages. In doing so, it fulfills its purpose.

I liked this book because it lets you know about the importance of XHTML compatibility. It also tells you what the differences between HTML and XHTML are.

Overall this is a great book. I would recommend it to the following people:

People with pages wanting to make them compatible with the future.

People wanting to learn how to write proper HTML.

All webmasters.

Well, thats that. Thanks for your time.

I found "XHTML Fast & Easy", an excellent book reviewing basic HTML, covering in detail Extensible HTML, and extending it toward XML. It covers all of XHTML in an easy to read and understandable fashion, shows how it is related to HTML, and specifically the differences between the two languages. It brings together the path from HTML to XML. It also includes a section on Cascading Style Sheets and how they fit into the whole scheme of things. This general instruction book is easy to read, but does have more than a few mistakes that should have been picked up by proofreading and the editors. However, it is a good book to learn about the Mark-up Languages and to understand the concepts in their development. I recommend it.

This is a horrible textbook and I mean it. The only possible use I can think of is to use it as a high school textbook.

I was taught intermediate micro using this book. For that class, I found this book helpful and easy to follow. I still use it as a reference for simple concepts that I've forgotten.