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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question
| Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Corrected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Printed | Page Ch.8 |
Typo with use of "ToDo" appears on multiple pages in chapter 8. 291, 296, 300, 313, 314 : Change "ToDo" to "to do" 300, 302, 307, 208, 311, 313, 318: "ToDo" on blue sticky notes should read "To Do" |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 11 |
NDQ answer 2: "Don’t skip IA, as it can often determine parts of the design when you come to layout the site." Should read "lay out" |
brittany2784 | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 13 |
The heading should be in sentence case. Change "Determine your Top Level Navigation" to "Determine your top level navigation" |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 28 thought bubble |
"Come on, Writing is writing." should read, "Come on, writing is writing." |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 30 Exercise |
"Rework the copy so that follows the scannability checklist." You left out the word "it" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Kevin Olson | |
| Safari Books Online | 47,48 Sharpen Your Pencil instructions |
theme's (Write down two possible central theme's for Mark's site.) should read "themes". |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 49 |
layout (How you layout your site will affect the overall visual Metaphor...) - in this case should be 'lay out' |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 50 |
breaks (Whitespace helps to breaks up...) should be 'break' users (focuses the users eye towards content.) - missing apostrophe |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 51 |
it's (Not every site needs a gorilla-themed metaphor or a snazzy newspaper layout to reinforce it's content.) - remove apostrophe |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 58 |
"I really can't tell where you guys are going for here." Should read "...what you guys are going for here." |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 64 |
layout (Grids also provide a foundation that allow you to layout your site with solid order and visual logic.) In this case, should be 'lay out' |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 65 |
- "let tell them" (and let tell them to give you as much feedback as possible...) remove 'let' - meet (Make sure that each meet his needs...) should be 'meets' |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Safari Books Online | 87 2nd paragraph |
In the 2nd paragraph, the word "that" is used instead of "than". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 128 rpm.css code |
background property of #026dc0 outputs a blue background, not the beige as shown on the next page. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Josh Feck | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 178 second code highlight @ #header |
It seems that the printed visuals are not correlating to the hexadecimals in the code. Where #adbc49 produces a light to mustard beige brown, the printed example and text revere to a dark brown. Like the character says: "The site feels heavy and oppressive." This darker shade is the #945737 or the second to last in the color swatch. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Frank Klaver | |
| Printed | Page 180 text linked with color wheel figure |
*Comment linked with left yellow circles it says "Further form the center results in a darker color" should say: "Further from the center results in a lighter color" * Comment linked with blue circles included in color wheel: it says: "Closer to the center results in a lighter color" should say: "Closer to the center results in a darker color" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Santiago Martin Alfageme | |
| Printed | Page 212 3rd paragraph |
"The nice thing about blocks-and why they are great for navigation elements-is that they all automatically line up horizontally." No they do not of course. We are looking here at a unordered list <ul> and it would "automatically" display verticaly. We need to use CSS to place the block inline in order to display it horizontal. I know that the next picture description states that the <li> is displayed inline so how can that have been overlooked by the technical reader editor of the book. I asume he or she knows CSS or XHTML ? Sorry for being a pain but this information is seriously confusing for some one with minor understanding of the subject. (hey not me! of course...) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Frank Klaver | |
| Printed | Page 218 Bottom right "handwritten" note. |
The note reads, "Each link has it's [sic] own class. so we can assign the right icon to the background." As a minor nit, the period should be a comma. As a larger complaint, here, as in several other places in the book, the authors/editor use apostrophized "it's" when they should use possessive "its" (sans apostrophe). It's a basic error in English usage, and I marvel that it slipped through editing. I've now spotted it literally half a dozen times, and each time it's annoying and distracting. I hope such errors do not indicate a decline in the quality of the *Head First* brand. |
Joseph Lockett | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 228 2nd paragraph |
The exercise asks to read the text at "www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfwd/chapter06/text" and to keep track of how long it takes. However, no such site appears to exist. Additionally, this link refers to 'chapter06' when in fact the exercise occurs in Chapter 7. Note from the Author or Editor: |
shred22 | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 237 link rel in sample html |
The "don't forget to link your css file!" side note points to the red lantern.css from chapter 1. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Frank Klaver | |
| Other Digital Version | 237 exercise files |
The href="redlantern.css" also apears in all exercise files related to this chapter. Correction would be: "hipster.css". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Frank Klaver | |
| Printed | Page 370 Bottom annotation |
"Audio2Go" should read "Audio-2-Go" |
Anonymous | Mar 2009 |
| Printed | Page 447 TOP |
"All ... even in the smaller content hAAders (headers ?)" "That crewate (create ?) a sense ...." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Patrick |
