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It has to be said, it’s been hard to find many negative comments about my beginners’ HTML & CSS book (the evidence speaks for itself), but one comment I received early on, from a work colleague no less, was this:
“That plane wouldn’t fly.”
Oh yes … so it wouldn’t. In choosing a child’s toy for [...]

So, I said that I didn’t know if I ever wanted to write a book again. Apparently I lied.
As the image at the top of this post suggests (assuming that you are looking at the blog version and not [...]

Having been on sale for just under a year and a half, I recently got the second sales report for my book and it’s done better than I hoped. Sure it’s not a seller in the region of JK Rowling or anything, but the sales figures are pretty respectable for a book [...]

A lot of people have asked me about how sales of the book are doing. Actually, that’s almost the first question I get asked and, strange though it may seem, I am continually surprised that they are asking this. Perhaps I shouldn’t be. However, what’s more surprising, I think – or at least to the [...]

Well, I could have, and if you feel like writing a better review than this, then please feel free! But I have to repeat something that Kevin Yank posted at SitePoint today regarding some feedback from a total web newbie. Apologies for the rather long blockquote – I found it difficult to remove any part [...]

This weekend I had my own first sighting of my own book in the wild. This is a truly momentous occasion, one that people who haven’t slogged for months to complete some weighty tome or other will probably never understand. For me, that moment came in Bath (the town, sill – I wouldn’t read in [...]

This is an email interview that I did for Matt Mickiewicz over at SitePoint – it’s to go into a newsletter that goes out to SitePoint’s various sales reps and distributors. I’m not sure it it’s going to be used anywhere else online, but I thought it would be useful to publish here anyway – [...]

My book got a mention on Boagworld’s podcast, and I thought I’d transcribe and respond to some of the comments Paul made here:

"It’s called Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way using HTML and CSS. What a nice snappy title! He needs to work on his title a bit."

Yeah, not my choice [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS, is now out on SitePoint. I received my personal copies today and am really pleased with the end result (it’s surprising how much fun it is to re-read your own work in this format … but it’s [...]

‘Cos I’m on the scrounge! I put together a site to promote my forthcoming beginners book on building a web site (with web standards) and thought it would be good to add some quotes. Now, until the book is out it’s a little difficult to know what to put there. Most people I know haven’t [...]