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Codenotes for Web Based Ui

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If you have some basic web skills, no formal training in design or development, and are looking for one small book to take you a little further in all aspects of web development, this book might be worth reading. However, I found it to be too basic to be of any use for me, but I have training both in design and development. It is also already feels a little dated. I would recommend a good book on CSS/DOM for DHTML, a good book on web usability, and as for design, well, that's a little harder...

This is a great little book. If you are like me who is not a programmer, but ends up doing lots the Web front end development tasks because the real developers " don't do scripting" as its beneath them. Then this book is for you. It gives real life examples that can be used to get you started on that dynamically cascading menu or that regular expression to validate your date entry field. Small and compact gives you well targeted golden nuggets of information about HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, XML and XLST not 100's of pages of theory and "hello world" examples.

Based on this book, I'll definitely check out other CodeNotes volumes. This is the "anti-doorstop", it gets right to the point, inserts code and screen scrapes for maximum effect, &is backed up w/a lot of good detail on the CODENOTES website. The 30-50 pages on each of web UI, Javascript, DHTML/DOM, and XML are best surveys of the topics I've seen anywhere.

A Few caveats: No Bibliography, and the index's pretty thin. Javascript chapter very Java/C++-centric, and perl/python-like features are labeled "strange" , "for (x in a)". The fonts are a little funky, more section headings shd be bolded/italicized/whatever. But on the whole, the best $... a web developer, tech analyst or CIO who needs to catch up in a hurry can spend.

I've been developing web applications for more than 5 years, and though not perfect and not necessarily written for the beginner, I feel this is the best book of its kind available. Thanks to the authors for putting something useful out there finally.