- Paperback: 616 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (30 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201730847
- ISBN-13: 978-0201730845
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.9 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,128,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An easy-to-read visual guide, DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web presents two key Web standards, Dynamic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. DHTML is a catch-all term for a set of browser technologies, including the Document Object Model and the ability to control it with JavaScript. CSS is a specification for formatting pages by defining and applying named styles. Microsoft and Netscape began to implement these standards in their version 4.0 browsers, but with huge variations that frustrate web designers.
This title is divided into four parts. The first two offer an overview and tutorial for CSS and DHTML in turn. Part 3 is a short guide to two popular tools, Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver. The fourth section puts it all together, with coverage of menus and controls, special effects, multimedia, and general guidance on effective web design. There are several appendices, including a skimpy reference.
The author takes a pragmatic approach, explaining how to build pages that work in both Navigator and Internet Explorer, and including brief coverage of browser-specific features. There is some coverage of Netscape 6.0, with its much-improved DHTML support. Although the author has a brief look at web design tools, the main focus is on the code itself. This is not an in-depth guide, and other titles such as Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 have more detail. The advantage of this title is its friendly style, plentiful tips, and clear step-by-step examples, making it a good starting point for those wanting to move on from basic HTML. --Tim Anderson
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For any course in Web scripting, Web authoring, Web graphics and design that uses DHTML, HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets.
This task-based, visual reference guide features step-by-step instructions and plenty of screen shots-the ideal way to get students up and running with DHTML quickly.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I wanted to learn CSS from the ground-up. I had a vague idea about stylesheets but the book takes you through a broad range of the techniques you can use right from the beginning. The pros and cons of the different techniques are explained well and the examples used help put it all in context. I found myself revisiting examples from day to day as I was starting out with my own CSS. I found this the best approach, especially for the positional CSS, although some of the book is readable without trying out the code.
I really liked the visual style of the book as it's easy on the eye (it has some attributes of an informative magazine but with a book-like consistency). For example, some of the nuances of CSS are not embedded in a stack of text, but are brought to the reader's attention in smaller blocks.
The DHTML section was really just a bonus for me, but I've used some of the simple animation scripts to good effect. The other useful stuff includes how you can change the style of a screen element through a user interaction which I've also used.
Finally, there's a good support web site, which has working examples and code & at the time of writing was still up and running. Just for the CSS section I rate this 4/5.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Second Edition (June 2001) of this book is very good, and is - at the time of writing - the only DHTML book I've seen which teaches you W3C standard DOM based Dynamic HTML. This is a very important point in my opinion, and it really makes it the one and only book to choose until other books gets updated or new titles emerges. W3C standard based DHTML are supported by browsers like Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+, Opera 4+, Konqueror 2.1+, Mozilla and other Mozilla/Gecko-based browsers, and is _the_ standard "all" browser will support in the future. But the IE4 and NS4.x browsers are not forgotten, the book teaches you how to make your code compatible with these browsers too, even though they don't support the W3C standard DOM.
The book has support and bug-information about various Netscape and Microsoft browser versions, but do not go into deeper details with the alternative browsers like Opera and Konqueror. Actually Opera is the only "alternative" browser which is briefly mentioned in the book. However the coding style used in the book always favours "feature sensing" over "browser sensing" when ever possible, so most code should work with the lesser known W3C DOM compliant browsers too.
The book is split into two parts, a CSS-part and a DHTML-part. It seems like a wise idea to teach CSS before starting DHTML, since most people starting on DHTML problably haven't used CSS that much yet.
It is a beginners guide, not an advanced book. The style is typical of the "Visual Quickstart Guide". This means the book is designed to be a combined reference and a teaching-book. In my opinion the book can be a little boring reading from start to the end, because it has a tendensy to repeat things. For example when you have learned the basic CSS syntax for defining styles you don't really have to get it spelled out how the syntax is for every style-property in the rest of the book. Just mentioning the name of the property and the possible values should be enough, and you can always check the code-examples if in dought. This is problably a matter of taste, but it is the reason I can "only" give this generally very good book 4 stars.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I borrowed this book from the library and have used it every day for several weeks. It has proved an invaluable aid to me in creating dynamic web pages which are easily maintained. As with most of the Visual Quickstart series, the content is well laid out and easy to follow, yet comprehensive. I am now going to order my very own copy!
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