DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web, Second Edition 2nd Edition

by Jason Cranford Teague (Author)

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Increasing numbers of Web page creators are familiar with HTML but are daunted by the prospect of using DHTML and CSS. Dynamic HTML (DHTML), a collection of technologies, works on all browsers and helps create a dynamic Web interface that reacts to visitors' needs, while CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) allows designers to create sites with the exact typeface, color, and layout they want. Using both technologies, any Web author or developer can easily add interactive and visually sophisticated elements to a site. DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, shows readers that DHTML and CSS don't have to be difficult to learn. This revised and expanded second edition is up-to-date on the latest Web standards and browsers, and includes all-new coverage of using DHTML to get information about the browser environment and adding multimedia to a site. It also includes updated basic and advanced dynamic techniques, such as making objects appear and disappear, moving objects in 3D, and adding dynamic content. With over 400 screen shots and visual, task-based lessons, those new to DHTML can use this guide as an introduction to scripting, while experienced programmers will be pleased to find practical and working examples throughout the book. This edition offers full cross-platform and cross-browser coverage.

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Add dynamic interactivity to your Web site with DHTML and Cascading Style Sheets!

Targeted to designers and content creators, not just programmers.
Visual, task-based format the ideal way to get up and running with DHTML.

This revised and expanded second edition is up-to-date on the current Web standards and browsers, and includes all new coverage of using DHTML to get information about the browser environment and adding multimedia to a site, as well as new basic and advanced dynamic techniques, such as making objects appear and disappear, moving objects in 3D, and adding dynamic content. This edition offers full cross-platform and cross-browser coverage. This book does not focus on the more complex aspects of DHTML, but focuses on practical examples of what really works with DHTML and CSS, making it useful for beginners just starting out with DHTML, as well as professional developers looking for a quick reference.

About the Author

Jason Cranford Teague is a Senior Information Architect for Lante and has designed Web sites for Virgin, WebMD, Coca-Cola, CNN, Bell South, and DuPont. He has written for Macworld, Adobe, CNet,Tripod, and the London newspaper The Independent. He is the author of the previous edition of this book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachpit Pr; 2nd edition (May 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0201730847
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0201730845
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.25 x 7 x 8.75 inches

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M. K. Branson

Full of errors and typos

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2004

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The editing and proofreading processes in publishing this book seem to have been bypassed altogether. This book is ripe with errors and typos that will confuse the unfortunate CSS neophyte. It appears to be another example of a web-development book that was rushed to press well before it was ready. I plan on returning the book for a refund.

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Moore Paul Patrick

Dry, concise introduction to CSS

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2005

I only read the CSS part of the book, which takes up the first nine chapters.

The contents are logically presented in a concise manner. The format of the content is rather boring, and the presentation of the code samples and screen shots is not great. I found myself struggling to make headway. Compare this to the stunning presentation of Castro: "HTML for the WWW" (which also covers CSS), and Meyer: "On CSS".

Other comments:

1. The running example, ("Alice in Wonderland"), throughout the book is hardly a real-world project.

2. Book binding - pages are individually glued to the binding and fall out too easily with frequent use - this alone would be reason not to buy the book.

3. Difficult to gel the points just covered, since there are no exercises at end of each chapter.

4. No section heading numbers within chapters; so it is difficult to get feel for book structure, also difficult to navigate the book's on-line companion site to find the code samples corresponding to each sub-section.

5. The book uses forward referencing - in the code samples, tags/keywords are introduced which are only explained later in the book.

6. The book's on-line samples differ to the code in the book.

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K. M. Roach

Learn DHTML & CSS in blazing fast-forward mode!

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2001

Another brilliant addition to the Visual Quickstart Guide series! You simply cannot be a web developer and NOT be in possession of this and at least a half-dozen other titles from this series!
Since I own over 20 Visual Quickstart Guide titles, I feel qualified to rank DHTML & CSS for the WWW by Jason Cranford Teague among the top 5 best-of-series, right up there with Elizabeth Castro's HTML 3.2 & 4.0, Castro's PERL & CGI for the WWW, Debra and Eric Ray's UNIX, and lastly, I'll cheat by treating PHOTOSHOP 4, 5, 5.5 and 6 as one book because of the consistent and informative efforts by authors, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas. (I hear the DREAMWEAVER 4.0 by J. Tarin Powers is pretty awesome as well!) In my experience, all, but for a couple of marginal misfires, are excellent.
Be forewarned, however, the Visual Quickstart books are not project or tutorial driven. These are the books to use AFTER you've cut your teeth on the application tutorial-- when you're out there in the REAL webdev world, building stuff, even if it's your first time. These books are worth 100 times their weight in gold! Think of a cookbook where brevity is key and success is guaranteed if you follow each step as directed.
Anyway, enough free advertising for Peachpit Press and back to DHTML & CSS by Jason Teague! The writing is clear and concise. All of the style and script examples are useful immediately and relevant in the real world of webdev. Each step of every script or style is prefaced by referenced snippets of code so you know exactly where you are in any particular script, which can sometimes be pages long.
Teague is also a master at anticipating problems you might encounter when deploying some of his examples. So, he includes on-the-spot browser-compatibility info, helpful hints and browser-specific workarounds, just in case woeful rendering in a misbehaving browser gives you fits! (and because he probably doesn't want to invite litigation for property damage when you throw a brick at your computer out of frustration when you can't get a script to execute properly in say, Netscape V4.715367894508061182745? Or a stylesheet doesn't render as you intended in Opera V2.0 or Explorer V3.0-if at all!!!)
Another credit to the author is that he never leaves out steps relying on the happenstance that his readers maintain a preconceived level of knowledge about what might be considered obvious (which is all relative anyway, depending upon whether the reader is left or right-brain hard-wired!). He shows respect for his readers by leaving nothing to chance, while appealing to all levels of audience technical capability.
In short, it doesn't matter whether you are a newbie or a seasoned coder. You WILL find a treasure trove of useful information and a bountiful number of useful scripts and style examples for just about anything interactive you could ever hope to add to your web site. GUARANTEED!
And, now? TA-DAH!!! I saved the best for last! The prized characteristic of this book? When you need to zero in on a particular task, style or script, the index is magnificent! The subject, phrase or task you are looking for in the index corresponds directly to a page containing the information you need. So when you go to the page noted in the index, THE INFORMATION IS REALLY THERE--FIRST TIME AROUND!!! No guessing games or a dozen hit-and-miss trips back to the index to unlock some kind of elusive clue or national security clearance code known only to the author, that reveals the secret location of the information you seek, the exposure of which carries the obligatory condition of having to kill you! The index, on its own merit, is quite the workhorse that more than justifies the modest cost of the book in time saved, BEFORE you ever key in the first character of code!
No, I'm not a representative for Peachpit Press, nor do I play one on TV!!! I'm just a hardworking web developer trying to keep up with ever-changing technology in the blazing speed of internet time. Anyone who contributes to the shortening of my learning curve is my best friend for life! Thanks, Jason. Your book rocks!!

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dgljones

Bargain. Two very good books for less than the price of one.

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2001

I am a big fan of the VQG set of books, and this is the best value for money I have seen from them, and considering their low prices that is saying something.
You basically get two books - one on CSS and one on DHTML. They stand apart and a reader could just focus on one or the other if they needed to.
CSS is a huge part of the future of web design, it is a fairly easy subject, but that doesn't mean a bad technical writer couldn't mess it up. Teague doesn't, grabbing the reader and leading them through. I could argue with the placement of certain information, I often asked a question only to find the answer a few chapters later. That said once finished I had all the answers and am at the stage where I can (almost) confine tables to history in terms of web design. In fact the only suggestion I would have for the next addition is to cover the WASP initative proposal of using CSS to hide style from older browsers (cough Netscape 4 cough) as an option the reader should at least be aware of.
The DHTML book is bigger and Teague does a good job of focusing on all the major parts, does a bang up job of explaining the various DOMs and what they do and provides a bunch of great code to work from. There are a couple of areas that seem too general to be useful - how to make an animated gif in fireworks/photoshop etc - but I would rather a section I can skip over than missing information.
Great book, great value.

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