Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours [Paperback]

Michael Moncur (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672323028 | ISBN-13: 978-0672323027 | Publication Date: December 10, 2001 | Edition: 1

Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours provides a friendly, accessible way to learn DHTML. Beginning with the basic concepts, it will proceed with concise lessons on the DOM and style sheets. Later lessons will present real-world examples of useful DHTML applications, such as cascading menus, and continue with advanced techniques, such as animation and dynamic fonts.

After finishing this book, readers will be able to add advanced, interactive features to their Web pages, while adhering to standards and ensuring that older and alternate browsers will still be supported.

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From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours provides a friendly, accessible way to learn DHTML. Beginning with the basic concepts, it will proceed with concise lessons on the DOM and style sheets. Later lessons will present real-world examples of useful DHTML applications, such as cascading menus, and continue with advanced techniques, such as animation and dynamic fonts.

After finishing this book, readers will be able to add advanced, interactive features to their Web pages, while adhering to standards and ensuring that older and alternate browsers will still be supported.

About the Author

Michael Moncur is the owner of Starling Technologies, a network consulting firm, and an independent Web developer. He has written a number of books, including Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours and several other best-selling books on networks and MCSE training.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (December 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672323028
• ISBN-13: 978-0672323027
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,217,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars W3C DOM way of developing DHTML applications, May 15, 2002

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"spaceshuttle" (Silicon Valley, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours (Paperback)

What I like about this book is that it focuses on the W3C DOM way of developing DHTML client applications. Most other Dynamic HTML books focus too much document.write(), proprietary extensions to web standards, or server side dynamic web pages.

Having researched quite a few books on Dynamic HTML, for those of you who want to get started, this is a pretty good book to get a feel for doing the W3C way.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This should be DUHtml, April 20, 2002

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Ben - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours (Paperback)

I have to say while I enjoyed the writing style of this book, it is a total waste of time and money. There are many better resources available to learn dhtml for free on the web. The examples in the book, if they work, are repeated throughout the text without giving new examples. And they will not validate with W3C's validators.

The author's website is a joke, the book made it sound like you could get useful information and possibly even snippets of code from the site. Again I was disapponted.

I have in the past I enjoyed the Sam's 24 hour series of books, but perhaps they should have spent an addition 24 days, or weeks, or maybe even months getting this book right.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book, March 10, 2005

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Harold Ferguson "Sherry" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours (Paperback)

This is a very good book, I have learned a lot from it.