Create Your Own Home Page for Macintosh
Web Page Construction Kit for Macintosh

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Publisher: Hayden Books
Co-author: Tonya Engst
ISBN:1568302452 / 1568301987 Box
Price: $25 / $39.95 Box
Publication Date: 09-95 / 12-95 Box
146 pages
Status: Current, but aging. Information is still generally accurate, but the included software needs updates, most (if not all) of which are available online.
Purchase From: Amazon, Macmillan SuperLibrary
Related Web Pages: Amazon, Macmillan SuperLibrary, Table of Contents, Chapter 4, TidBITS article, Info page

In the third edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, my wife Tonya wrote a chapter about HTML and how to make basic Web pages. It was one of the big changes for that edition, and we agitated with Hayden to be able to include two floppy disks with the book so we could include the necessary software for creating Web pages (the first floppy contained the basic Internet connection software). Unfortunately, disks are relatively expensive to add to a book, and Hayden regretfully told us that they just couldn't afford to add another disk to the book because of what it would do to the materials cost.

But, David Rogelberg, then the publisher of Hayden, suggested that we break out that chapter into a separate, small book, which could then have the disk we wanted to put in Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh. So, Tonya spent some more time on the text to make it independent, and I created the disk, and thus was born Create Your Own Home Page.

Create Your Own Home Page, which was sold in the bookstore channel, never sold all that well for reasons that we still don't understand. It was timely, it was accurate, it was short, and it had information for Macintosh users that didn't exist in all the more general HTML books. However, once again, Hayden put the book in a box and sold it as Web Page Construction Kit for Macintosh, and for some reason, it sold far better in the software channel.

Despite the overall acceptable level of sales, this book seems to have fallen into the staff change problem at Hayden, and Hayden has never even broached the subject of an update to Tonya, so it seems increasingly unlikely. Luckily, HTML 2.0, which is what this book documents, will stay the same forever, so there's no worry about the book becoming signficantly incorrect. It may not cover new topics, but the old ones are still good.

Tonya did update the HTML chapter for the fourth edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, which means that that book is essentially the second edition of Create Your Own Home Page.