Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week [Paperback]

Bruce Campbell (Author), John Jung (Author), Rick Darnell (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself... | Publication Date: January 1997

Detailed instructions on how to use Dynamic HTML and Web scripting languages to create Web pages and Web applications that change in response to user actions.

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Amazon.com Review

As the title suggests, Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week is a straightforward tutorial, designed to provide you with enough information and practice to quickly begin coding for 4.0 browsers. While some titles lump multiple HTML topics together under the "Dynamic HTML" banner, this one sticks strictly to its subject, covering both Netscape and Microsoft implementations of scripting, HTML, and style sheets to create dynamic and interactive content. Advanced topics, such as the integration of multiple languages and objects into your Web site design, are also considered. Each chapter represents a day's lesson plan and covers a single topic in depth. Workshop and wrap-up sections are included in each lesson for hands-on practice. The appendices provide excellent reference for HTML 4, JavaScript, VBScript, and cascading style sheets. All of the included source code and HTML examples--as well as recommended Web creation utilities and electronic versions of related titles--are available on the book's companion Web site.

From Library Journal

"Dynamic HTML" is a euphemism for "the standard tags are not enough and you have to learn some programming." Hyman introduces the dynamic object model, Cascading Style Sheets, and scripting languages like VBscript and Jscript. Like most books in the IDG series, this one is well written and entertaining. One caveat: the examples are Microsoft-centric, and some of the nonstandard suggestions here will not be supported in Netscape. For larger collections as an adjunct to Campbell. Since Netscape still has about 60 percent of the browser market, web authors exclude a lot of readers by designing for Internet Explorer 4. Campbell's book is for folks who want to design for all browsers. In a two-chapters-per-day seminar, Campbell covers all the bases and nicely balances the hands-on practical tips with underlying theory. He concludes with some worthwhile thoughts on "How much dynamic is too much?" Highly recommended for both beginners and advanced HTML users moving to the dynamic model and JavaScript. While Darnell does not use the word "dynamic" in the title, his bible covers everything dynamic: HTML, JavaScript, ActiveX, Java and the CGI, and even XML. To cover all that ground, he makes some assumptions, so this is not a book for beginners. It can work as a great quick reference for power users. For larger collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 508 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575213354
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213354
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,868,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Out of date!, January 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week (Paperback)

This book is out of date and the author is pretty unsure if the code will work for IE 4. The author uses IE 4 beta to test the code. Also, I bought this book to learn about moving objects, this book does a poor job in explaining how to create animation with DHTML.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There must be better books out there., June 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week (Paperback)

The book is not well organized, poorly written and cannot in any way be used as a reference. In many cases it does not tell you if the code will work with both browsers, in many cases it teches you old, non-standard technologies like JavaScript Style Sheets and Visual Basic Script. If you really like to figure out something yourself using book's narrow hints you might want to buy it. I actually managed to build a few sophisticated web sites partially because of reading this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs To Be Updated, October 12, 2000

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Randy H Schirmer (Parkesburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week (Paperback)

To be fair, this book is over 3 years old. Of course it will have outdated information. At the time this was written the W3C wasn't sure which direction to go. That alone leaves lots of issues up in the air. I got this book 2 years ago and it was helpful then but I came back here looking for an updated version and did not see one. If you are new to DHTML this book will be less helpful than more recent ones.