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If you're proficient at HTML, yet still fuzzy about Dynamic HTML, you're definitely not alone. Since the two browser heavyweights--Microsoft and Netscape--offer different flavors of DHTML, this promising technical advance for the Web is still in flux. DHTML for the World Wide Web is a no-nonsense look at where DHTML stands and how to use it effectively.

This Visual QuickStart guide delivers by offering a comprehensive look at using DHTML--in only 248 pages. The author wastes no time laying out the differences between the two vendors' approaches and establishing the common ground--mainly cascading style sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. With a fast-paced series of screen shots and step-by-step coding, you'll quickly learn the basics of CSS and how to use them effectively to control your typography and page layout. The book illustrates some of the most common uses of CSS--including multiple backgrounds, overlapping font styles, and columns without tables--clearly and quickly.

This guide also presents Document Object Models (DOM) to illustrate how to utilize dynamic event handling within your pages. Many popular techniques, such as moving banners, dragging objects, and creating pop-up menus, are included. An even balance of Netscape and Microsoft techniques makes this book a handy reference for any Web developer. --Stephen Plain

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Finally, the smoke is clearing on the technology which unleashes the full capabilities of the world's 4.0 web browsers: DHTML. Capable of creating full multimedia power on a web site, DHTML is a collection of related technologies, cascading style sheets, Javascript, and HTML used together in powerful and elegant ways. The effects can be stunning, and give web designers unprecedented power over their visual interfaces. After learning DHTML, the interactive designer and webmaster can create web pages filled with animation, synchronized events, intelligent data, and beautiful fonts: all the bells and whistles!

The DHTML Visual QuickStart Guide inherits the immensely successful format and approach of the bestselling HTML and Javascript titles and shows that DHTML doesn't have to be difficult to learn. A technology created for designers, DHTML should not only be used by programmers.

Task based, step-by-step instructions and easy to follow screen shots make the DHTML Visual QuickStart Guide the easiest way to learn DHTML. Read the book cover to cover, or just follow the steps for the task you need, right here, right now. Either way, you'll be up and running with DHTML in no time.

Easy to use and also comprehensive. The DHTML Visual QuickStart Guide documents every aspect of this complex technology, and provides extensive appendices that make finding the exact code word you need a snap.

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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Pr; 1st edition (September 21, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201353415
ISBN-13: 978-0201353419
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,107,975 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good start-up- acurate title, just a touch out of date, November 29, 1999

By	"cyberdr" (somewhere in cyberspace) - See all my reviews

This is a very good book for getting started with DHTML. It covers all the basics (CSS, CSS-P, etc.). It is, however, a little dated since HTML 4, CSS2, and the W3C DOM standards are being implemented in the latest browsers. Don't get discouraged though, this will still introduce you to the basics.

I would highly suggest reading PeachPit's VQS Guides on HTML and Javascript first. Then read this VQS. If after your intro to DHTML, you decide to become a Guru- buy O'Reilly's "Dynamic HTML- The Definitive Guide". Also, search the web for some reference sites- there are some really good ones for DHTML. Good Luck

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good primer, but lacks polish and attention to detail, February 4, 2000

By	Ernest Kim "An Average Joe" (Hillsboro, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The format of all of the Visual Quickstart Guides is very helpful in that it provides the reader with a visual representation of basically all of the concepts covered in the book. In the case of "DHTML for the WWW" this is extremely helpful since many of the concepts are fairly complex and would be difficult to comprehend without a visual aid.

Overall, this book is a good guide for intermediate level HTML coders who perhaps aren't interested in coding for the rest of their lives, but who would like to take advantage of some of the advanced behaviours that DHTML affords. In addition to the basic concepts behind DHTML, the book provides a surprisingly good and thorough explaination of CSS.

The downsides to this book are twofold, first, the examples provided are not, in large part, directly applicable to any real world applications. After having read the book, it would still take a fair amount of effort and ingenuity to develop a cascading menu, for example. This is made particularly difficult because of the book's second major fault, the fact that many of the code examples provided in the text are incorrect. If you buy this book MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU CONSULT THE ACCOMPANYING WEB SITE BEFORE DOING ANY CODING! This will save you much time and frustration.

The summary: worth buying, but it will leave you with as many questions as answers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Really an Intermediate Level Book, July 17, 2000

By	Steven A. Bell "Even Keel" (Kemp, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This book is not truely for beginners. I would suggest a good book on JavaScript (for those sketchy in this area), an then a good book on HTML (again for those beginning to learn to Web program). DHTML is a combination of intermediate to advanced HTML and JavaScript. Now with that said, this book does a good job presenting DHTML clearly. Here is a list of some of the topics covered: Cascading Style Sheets (basics, fonts, text control, properties, margins, borders, positioning, ad-nausium...), DOM (Document Object Model), Dynamic Techniques/Solutions, JavaScript and DHTML, Layers (a real biggy for me), and Visual Controls. Both Netscape and the ubiquitous Internet Explorer are covered (with a couple of chapters specific to their uniqueness). Appendices include: CSS Quick Reference, Layers QR, and Resources. The book is rounded out with an excellent index. I especially liked all of the cross-browser information (comments, code techniques, what would work and what wouldn't, how to adapt). I would have liked to have seen more on JavaScript integration with visual controls, but oh well. In addition, more information on CSS techniques with JavaScript would have been nice, and when dealing with IE it would have been terrific to have had some VBScript comparison code. Overall, I would recommend this book for the serious web programmer's shelf.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
This is excellent book: the language is easy to understand / to read, complete reference for beginner and good price too. The author is well known in Web Monkey.

Published on May 12, 2002 by Andry Lie

2.0 out of 5 stars This is not a book for professionals
JavaScript was dragged kicking and screaming into the ridiculous morass that is DHTML. Netscape has since abandoned its support for layers, so this book has become seriously... Read more

Published on February 27, 2002 by ad_crumenam

4.0 out of 5 stars DHTML
This is not a beginner book you need to be comfortable with HTML and even JavaScript. This does get you going in DHTML and has a great appendixes and index which outline code and... Read more

Published on June 20, 2001 by intentaccess

1.0 out of 5 stars do not buy this book if you are starting out using DHTML
This is a very dangerous book as alot of the code is not cross browser, there are newer books available that will be infinately more helpful. Read more

Published on June 14, 2001 by cliff

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Published on April 5, 2001 by foxyroxychick

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book for someone familiar with HTML.
This is a good book for someone that is familiar to HTML and wants to add some DHTML to their web pages. Read more

Published on March 30, 2001 by Aquaria.Info

1.0 out of 5 stars You get your money's worth.(basically nothing!)
This book is very inexpensive and it shows in the content. It goes through almost entirely the whole book teaching you the ultimate basics for CSS and doesn't go into teaching... Read more

Published on February 8, 2001 by grillo66

2.0 out of 5 stars For the truly un-initiated...
This book is useful only if you have NO idea about DHTML; and even then, it will take you only a couple of days to get through this book. Read more

Published on October 17, 2000

1.0 out of 5 stars Wait for the second edition to come out
This book is full of so many typos, it makes learning from it a nightmare. A second edition is supposed to be released, so I recommend to wait. Read more

Published on October 9, 2000 by Lawrence Goldner

3.0 out of 5 stars Very basic, but if that is what you want.........
I bought this book thinking that it would give me the tool to make a great DHTML enhanced web site. I already knew HTML very well, but my sites lacked the user-grabbing interface... Read more

Published on October 8, 2000 by Crazee84@aol.com

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