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Dynamic Html in Action

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The author clearly needs to work on his delivery of information in the context of multiple intellligences. Face it, most of the "crack the book" learners on the Internet are a combination of the logical/mathematical and kinetic intelligences. So what makes this book so useless is the lack of examples to explain the author's points! Even after the author promises something in "Part 2: The Project" they never really appear, nor do any direct references to any code that might be on the associated website. Obviously, this book was rushed to print without good review, but the true hypocrisy comes on p. 24 when the author refers to involving the student's senses as a basic principle of teaching. Wherever that came from it's clear the author stuck with the old "sage on the stage" approach. Next time try "guide on the side" and involve the student with practical examples.

The problem with this book is its lack of point. The author explains how he is designing a site for some company he tags as NWU. Why he doesn't just give his readers the address for the site atleast to give them an idea of DHTML in action I don't know? He has absolutely NO examples that are worth trying and the whole first couple of chapters are donated to the history of the web! I didn't spend my money to read about HTML's existence. I bought the book because I want to know DHTML. The capper for me was when I tried to download some source code from a site recomended at the back of the book. The site doesn't exist!

I returned this book after reading about half of it. To me, examples are everything. The examples in this book were incomplete, vague and non-existent. Just when you think the author is getting down to the nitty gritty, the section ends. If you are looking for a how-to book on DHTML, this is NOT it. Instead, I would recommend "Dynamic HTML" by Shelley Powers.

Other problems with the book - tons of spelling errors, confusing tables, enormous (and useless) diagrams, and outdated data.

I didn't finish this book. I decided to return it after I read 100 out of less than 320 pages of non-appendices content. Despite having no experience with DHTML at the time, I didn't see any concept or useful details new or foreign to me in the entire 5 chapters I read. Much of it was the kind of background and conceptual information most anyone who learned HTML and has seen a few bad sites and a couple good sites already knows. The typos were readily apparent - this book was barely edited, they relied on a spell check program. Also most pseudo-monitor pictures and other diagrams are much, much larger than their content requires and repeated with very small changes. Obviously, they were used to pad up the page count. The definition diagrams are of a certain indescript and unexplained format that really isn't as good as it should be. The design advice, while not bad, isn't particularly great either. I didn't give this book a lower rating because the latter 200 pages may contain useful information but I had already lost my respect for the book by then.

This book does not explain DHTML in any degree of depth, neither is there enough information on JavaScript to be of any value. I do not understand the author's choice of material. Very poor. If I had paid money for it I would be looking for a refund.

Sorry, I have to give 1 star because is the minimum. I bought this piece of crap looking for a starter book for DHTML... a waste of money, I don't know what this dudess was thinking at the time of writting, has no examples, is not clear, has lot of errors, tries to follow an entire project, but surely is only on her mind, there's no source code to follow...

I would recomend buying the book very much. Html gets old real quick and if you want your web pages to appear with cutting edge techniques and also learn about style and layout of web pages and sites, then read "Dynamic html in Action" Worked for me