Look Mom! I Built My Own Web Site

by Zohar Amihud

A simple guide to building an entire webpage, this book enables kids to create an entire five-page site from scratch complete with built-in menu. Everything needed to create a site is presented, including step-by-step guidelines for basic planning and design, simple instructions on writing in HTML, details on website hosting, and how to promote a site. Each task provides specific guidance and is accompanied by a short explanation, ensuring that the young developer does not grow bored with the process. Suggestions for personalizing a webpage according to each user's needs and abilities are also provided, as are reviews of the different website-hosting services, some of which are free.

204 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Faith Tydings · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book to be deceiving and very possibly outdated. It was published in 2006. There is a picture on the front with two very small children and their father in front of a computer and they look so excited…probably to show their mother about the website that they just build!? This book can also be found in the juvenile section of the library however, this is far from kid friendly. There are no fun illustrations, no cute characters following you around the book and explaining things to you, and hardly any screen shots. Why hasn’t this book been weeded for age? I had to laugh at the opening line, “If you’re not on the Net, you don’t exist!” (Amihud, 2006). I’m not the smartest when it comes to coding (which is why I'm reading kid's books!) but what I do know is that this book would not help me to be any smarter at it and it would not attract any kid that I know into checking this book out.