Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Javascript (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series) [Paperback]

Michael G. Moncur (Author), Laura Lemay (Author, Editor), Laura (Editor) Lemay (Author)

Book Description

Series: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series | Publication Date: August 1996

Designed for the user who is familiar with HTML and now wishes to further develop their Web pages, this manual provides a guide to creating web pages with forms, databases, and animation, through CGI scripting and interactivity.

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Readers will explore various aspects of Web publishing-whether CGI scripting and interactivity or graphics design or Netscape Gold-in greater depth than the Teach Yourself books. - Provides a clear, hands-on guide to creating sophisticated Web pages

- CD-ROM includes the complete book in HTML format, publishing tools, templates, graphics, backgrounds, and more

Product Details

• Paperback: 393 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing; First edition (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575211416
• ISBN-13: 978-1575211411
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,971,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A WASTE of TIME & good MONEY, September 27, 1999

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This review is from: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Javascript (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series) (Paperback)

I must agree with those listed below. Too many typos, too many errors. I tried to get some answers via Ms Lemay via her home web page but never an answer. It seems that a minute of her time is worth more than all the time wasted by readers of her book. My advice go for either the O'Reilly series by Flanagan or the Javascript Bible by Danny Goodman. At least these authors & publishers show more consideration to & respect for the reading public who do not want to waste their hard earned cash / time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not recommended, June 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Javascript (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series) (Paperback)

I am an advanced HTML writer. I purchased this book to learn JavaScript and as quoted in the introduction "I've mastered HTML. I know all about optimizing images for the Web. I've designed complex sites with hundreds of pages - sites that are visited daily by thousands of people. I want to do more. Where do I start?" Yes that's a description of me, but I say in response to that question "NOT WITH THIS BOOK". It is confussing and definately not in my opinion for a beginner who knows no JavaScript. In Australia, this book cost me $70 and I am not impressed to say the least on spending money on a book that I cannot even begin to comprehend.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good introduction and useful reference, June 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Javascript (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series) (Paperback)

This book was sufficient for me to get going with a language that is structured very differently from the traditional languages that I learned back in the dark ages. It's not designed as a comprehensive reference, although I've been using it as my sole Javascript reference for the past year. Rather, it teaches by having the reader learn to create building-blocks -- sections of code that will accomplish something useful -- and then goes on to show how to integrate those into larger projects. I didn't actually find the larger projects useful in and of themselves, but as examples of good Javascript code they were worth reading through.

I read about half of the book straight through, and then started skipping around as I needed to learn specific techniques. It works adequately that way, but in fact it is so full of little tricks -- some of which aren't even presented as such, but are just built into the examples -- that it will really repay anyone with the discipline to read it straight through. (I looked at a script used by the Adobe site that I wanted to emulate, but thought it looked kludgy and there MUST be a better way to do it. I spent several hours experimenting with document objects and attributes before finding the answer. Then in browsing Lemay's book for something else, I stumbled across the exact same technique being used in one of her examples. If only I had sat down and read that chapter earlier!)

The one shortcoming with the book, and the only reason I'm going to knock my rating down to four stars instead of five, is that the reference sections on document objects and properties should be more complete.

Randy Steer