Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals (2nd Edition) (Essential Series for Web Professionals) (Paperback)

by Dan Livingston (Author)

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Product Description
95% of all Web users now have CSS/DHTML compatible browsers. Now's the time to leverage these technologies to build sites that load faster, look hotter, and work better! In this fully updated best-seller, two renowned Web developers help you master CSS and DHTML -- hands-on! Learn how to use CSS and DHTML to build real-world sites that sell products, educate visitors, display ads, present quizzes, and deliver sophisticated interactivity. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of CSS style sheets, including the STYLE Tags; Z-Index stacking; and more. The authors demonstrate how to add DHTML-based interactivity; build pop-ups for search and secondary navigation; create splash screens; and much more. The book also includes practical solutions for reliable cross-browser coding. All finished sample sites and applications are on the Web -- so developers can reuse the code, and see exactly how their pages should look and work.

From the Back Cover

• Get results with CSS and DHTML(today!
• Fully updated with the latest techniques and code samples
• Learn from real-world examples with downloadable, reusable programming code
• Specific solutions! e-commerce, search, advertising, quizzes, cross-browser coding, and more
• Build sites that load faster, look hotter, work better!

Today 95% of all Web users have browsers compatible with Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. So now's the time to leverage these technologies to build sites that load faster and work better than ever. In this fully updated best-seller, a world-renowned Web developer helps you master CSS and DHTML—hands-on! You'll use CSS and DHTML to build real-world practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, display ads, present quizzes, and deliver sophisticated interactivity. Plus, the author provides code for handling Netcape 6's quirks. 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!

You'll learn all this and much more!

• Stylesheet fundamentals: , , Z-Index stacking, and
• Adding DHTML-based interactivity
• Building pop-up search windows
• Using JavaScript pop-up secondary navigation
• Building feature splash screens
• Cross-browser coding: practical solutions, pitfalls to avoid
• Coding for layer visibility; animating and dragging layers
• Preparing a storefront for HTML
• Building and enhancing interactive quizzes

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Raves for the first edition of Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals:

"I'm working through your excellent book on CSS and DHTML and applying it to a JavaScript form-based document of mine. Keep up the good work!"—Andrew Harrison

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition (July 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130649953
• ISBN-13: 978-0130649959
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,213,343 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not really essential, July 16, 2003

By	YouGoTiger "yougotiger" (Mesa, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

I found this book quite dissapointing. I thought from what I read in the book summary that it would be a book on more advanced techniques, but it was really quite basic. Not a good beginning point for learners, and too basic for people who know more than the basics. Also, about 40% of the book is made up of reference appendices, disappointing, since the book isn't all that long (7 chapters, only 3-4 of which actually address real DHMTL). I would not have purchased this book if I knew before hand what I know now.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful tutorial, solid code, great writer, October 27, 2001

By	"meganppp" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This may sound harsh, but if you can't learn the basics (and more) of DHTML and stylesheets from this book, then you should probably not be developing web sites. I've been slogged through hundreds of computer books throughout the years, and this is definitely in the top 5 as far as quality of writing, timeliness, usable code, and emphasis on real-world application. The text and code for the stylesheets (that's CSS for newbies) along is worth the price of the book. This book earns every one of its five stars.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars taught me what I needed to know about CSS and DHTML, October 27, 2001

By	"brandansm" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

I'm not sure which book the guy who gave this one star actually read. It wasn't this one. I didn't know squat about CSS or DHTML. I had to learn it quickly for my job, and reading this book and working through the examples taught me everything I needed to know in about three days. I already knew HTML and a little JavaScript. There's lots of code covering lots of different possibilities of CSS and DHTML, suggestions for best time-saving coding practices, and complete cross-browser code for IE 5 and Netscape 6. The title is just fine: I'm a web developer, and this book taught me (it's very well-written, by the way) all the essentials of CSS and DHTML as well as how to use them.