The Lanwrights Consulting team, headed up by Ed Tittel, wrote a variety of the For Dummies series of books for IDG Books. The For Dummies books have become a very popular series of books worldwide, and one of the best selling Dummies series books, HTML 4 For Dummies, was written by the Lanwrights team. Together with the HTML For Dummies book, a number of other books were written for IDG, these included Linux For Dummies, Networking with Netware For Dummies, Windows 2000 Networking For Dummies, Windows 2000 Server For Dummies, Windows NT Server 4 For Dummies, Windows Server 2003 For Dummies, XHTML For Dummies and XML For Dummies. Most of these books have been revised and updated over the years since they were first written to comply with technological advancements and the improvement and efficiency of programming languages.

Note that IDG books changed its name to Hungry Minds and in 2001, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. purchased Hungry Minds. The following books cover various subjects but all have the popular For Dummies title. Please click on any book title to visit Amazon.com for more information about that book or to purchase it. The following is a list of the For Dummies books in print in chrnological order, which have been written by the Lanwrights Team.
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HTML 4 For Dummies Books

The HTML For Dummies and HTML 4 For Dummies books are a beginners guide to creating your own web pages from scratch. The books begin with the basic efforts of creating a HTML webpage, to creating and editing tables, horizontal lines. The book launches into Getting To Know HTML and XHTML to Formatting Web Pages with HTML - which shows you how to create your document structure, manipulate text, build ordered and unordered lists, and also covers linking to online resources using the anchor tags, and finally finding and using images. Chapters move on to Taking Precise Control Over Web Pages, where you can learn how to use and implement Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and get creative with colors and fonts, through to the use of Tables to create stunning webpages with great effect. Integrating Scripts with HTML covers various aspects of scripting webpages and delves into the nuts and bolts of using Javascript and forms to enhance the appeal and add greater functions to your web pages. The book also has a projects area which gives examples of About Me pages, and eBay auction page, a Company Website and a Product Catalog, then concludes with cool HTML tools, Ten HTML do's and dont's, and 10 ways to exterminate web page bugs. The books has several appendixes covering deprecated HTML elements and attributes and CSS properties.

HTML 4 For Dummies, 5th Edition, by Ed Tittel and Mary Burmeister. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2003. $24.99. ISBN: 0764589172.
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HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition, by Ed Tittel and Natanya Pitts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2003. $24.99. ISBN: 0764519956.
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HTML 4 For Dummies, 3rd Edition - by Ed Tittel, Natanya Pitts, and Chelsea Valentine. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2000. $24.99. ISBN: 0764507230.
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Linux For Dummies

Linux For Dummies, 3rd Edition. Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Melanie Hoag, and Evan Bloomquist. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2000. $24.99. ISBN: 0764507443.

Linux For Dummies, 4th Edition. Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Melanie Hoag, and Evan Bloomquist.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2002. $24.99. ISBN: 0764516604.
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Networking with Netware For Dummies

Networking with Netware For Dummies, 4th Edition. Ed Tittel, James E. Gaskin, and Earl Follis.
IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1998. List Price: $19.99. ISBN: 0764502816.
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Windows 2000 Networking For Dummies

Windows 2000 Networking For Dummies . Ed Tittel, Mary Madden, and Earl Follis.
Hungry Minds, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2001. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764508113.
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Windows 2000 Server For Dummies

Windows 2000 Server For Dummies. Ed Tittel, Mary T. Madden, and James Michael Stewart.
IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1999. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764503413.
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NT Server 4 For Dummies

Windows NT Server 4 For Dummies. Ed Tittel, Mary Madden, and Earl Follis. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1999. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764505246.

Windows Server 2003 For Dummies

Windows Server 2003 For Dummies. Ed Tittel and James Michael Stewart. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2003. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764516337.

XHTML For Dummies

XHTML For Dummies. Ed Tittel, Chelsea Valentine, and Natanya Pitts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2000. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764507516. Visit the book's Web site.

XML For Dummies

XML For Dummies, 2nd Edition. Ed Tittel and Frank Boumphrey. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2000. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764506927. Visit the book's Web site.

XML For Dummies, 3rd Edition. Ed Tittel, Natanya Pitts, and Frank Boumphrey. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2002. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764516574.

Out of Print

The following books are either out of print or out of stock indefinitely; however, you may still be able to order used copies of these books from Amazon.com. Click on the book title to visit Amazon.com for more information about that book.

HTML 4 For Dummies. Ed Tittel and Steve James. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1998. List Price: $29.99. ISBN: 0764503316. Visit the book's Web site.

HTML 4 For Dummies, 2nd Edition. Ed Tittel and Natanya Pitts. Hungry Minds, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1999. $29.99. ISBN: 0764505726. Visit the book's Web site.

More HTML For Dummies(r). Ed Tittel and Steve James. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1996. ISBN: 1568849966.

MORE HTML For Dummies, 2nd Edition. Ed Tittel and Stephen N. James. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1997. List price: $22.99. ISBN: 0764502336.

NetWare For Dummies. Ed Tittel and Deni Conner. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1993. ISBN: 1568840039.

NetWare For Dummies, 2nd Edition. Ed Tittel, Deni Conner, and Earl Follis. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1995. ISBN: 1568843690.

Networking with NetWare For Dummies, 3rd Edition. Ed Tittel, Deni Connor, and Earl Follis. Hungry Minds, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1995. List Price: $19.99. ISBN: 0764500023.

Networking with Netware For Dummies, Quick Reference. Ed Tittel, James Gaskin, and David Johnson. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1998. List Price: $12.99. ISBN: 0764503065.

Windows NT Networking for Dummies. Ed Tittel, Mary Madden, and Earl Follis. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1996. List Price: $24.99. ISBN: 0764500155.

XML For Dummies. Ed Tittel, Norbert Mikula, and Ramesh Chandak. IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, IN, 1998. List Price: $29.99. ISBN: 076450360X. Visit the book's Web site.