DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Jason Cranford Teague

DHTML (Dynamic HTML) is a collection of technologies (part HTML, part Javascript) and is a way of scripting web pages for special effects in web site design. This book includes coverage of using DHTML... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201730847
• ISBN13: 9780201730845
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

This is a great reference book, it gets into how to actually do things you're going to want to do. Each CSS facility is described, an example is provided, and has a quick-reading chart showing which browsers it is, or not, compatible with.Then the author goes on with a wonderful introduction to DHTML, again in his understandable, informative way. An excellent book with great information you will keep as reference!

great little book!

I was pleasantly surprised that this book could be so useful. I bought it because a former course mate recommended it. I didn't use this book for weeks after I got it. When I eventually did, I found it very helpful. The complete examples given by the author were just what I was looking for. In my opinion, this book has saved me far more than what it cost.For those who want in-depth coverage of DHTML, I suggest a bigger book. For those of us with little time however, we'll have to make do with this book. I wanted a whirlwind coverage of the essentials of DHTML, and this book delivered--at a ridiculously small price.

Great Intermediate Web Design Book

Having read a Visual Quick Start Guide previously, I expected an easy, basic and short introduction to both DHTML and CSS. What I received was much better. Yes, the topics were explained in an easy to understand and logical sequence, but there is some good intermediate information here as well. Cascading Style Sheets is the subject of the first sections of the book. I found this information to be invaluable. There is no reason that every web page is not constructed using CSS, due to its flexibility and time reducing factors for setting styles. The majority of the chapters are on DHTML. DHTML allows you to add dynamic content to your web site such as, Drop-down Menus, Pop-up text, and Sliding Frames. The author steps you through the code for designing these and several more projects. I found that much of what was mentioned in the text led to many of my own ideas based on the foundation I learned with the book. For this price I recommend that all beginning and intermediate Web Designers buy this book today. You won't regret it.

So You Want To Learn CSS?

This book has to be the best Dhtml/CSS book on the market. I have gone from knowing nothing about CSS to learning how to create effective pages using this wonderful new tool. FrontPage users: don't be afraid of investing some time with this book & learning CSS- with the new CSS/Dhtml features in 2002, you will enjoy knowing how to create better code and sites. The author has provided wonderful examples - not just snippets - but full code samples with explanations clear enough for even this novice to understand.

We REQUIRE our employees to read this book!

As a Web Design firm, it is mandatory that we stay on the cutting edge of site development. We required our entire staff to study the first book in this series and we've already started passing out this second edition. Nothing provides better control over site appearance than DHTML/CSS and we have not found a better manual than this for our designers.Note, this is for people who are serious about web design and not FrontPage amateur hour users. This manual gives our information architects the cross browser/platform reference material they need to not waste development time. If you don't know this book's content, you're not a web author.