Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Dan Barrett (Author), Micah Brown (Author), Dan Lifingston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 23, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0131001477 | ISBN-13: 978-0131001473 | Edition: 2

Enhance your Web site functionality with JavaScript! Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals provides the reader with practical projects and realistic solutions. This real-world approach to JavaScript engages the reader, as more complex projects build on simpler problems from earlier in the book. Projects include rollovers, pulldown menus, and navigation tools. More complex problems include error handling, logins, creating pages on the fly from data held in multidimensional arrays, and more.

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From the Back Cover

• Build better Web sites with JavaScript—right now!
• Fully updated for the latest JavaScript standards and browser support
• Learn from real-world examples and two live practice Web sites
• Browser detection, dynamic content, CSS, rollovers, logins, navigation, debugging, and more!

By award-winning Web developer Dan Barrett, whose clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, and Pacific Bell.

Don't waste your time or money on a gigantic JavaScript book! Learn the techniques you'll really use—right now, hands on, by example, from one of the world's top Web developers. You'll master JavaScript by building actual practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, offer subscriptions, display ads—even enforce security. Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web—so you can reuse the code, and see exactly how your pages should look and work Fully updated for the latest standards and browsers, Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals, Second Edition is simply the fastest way to gain the JavaScript skills you need most.

You'll master all this and much more:

• Detecting browsers and platforms
• Creating dynamic content
• Making the most of CSS and layers
• Enforcing logins
• Creating rollovers
• Enhancing your site's navigation
• Adding error handling to your forms
• Generating and managing windows and frames
• Debugging your JavaScript code
• Writing code that's easy to maintain

Rely on Essential Guides for ALL the Web Skills You Need!All these books share the same great format and the same dynamic Web site ... so once you've used one, they're all a piece of cake!

• Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals, Second Edition
• Essential XML for Web Professionals
• Essential XSL for Web Professionals
• Essential JSP for Web Professionals
• Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals, Second Edition

About the Author

DAN BARRETT is co-owner of Smashing Pixels, a Web design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area. He has more than eight years of Web design, 3D animation, and modeling experience, working with clients that include Hewlett-Packard, Novell, PeopleSoft, Restoration Hardware, Electronic Arts, and Pacific Bell. His sites have earned numerous awards, including several International Web Page Awards and Macromedia's Flash Site of the Day.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition (September 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131001477
• ISBN-13: 978-0131001473
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,035,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)