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Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week
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by Bruce Campbell and Rick Darnell
Sales Rank: 2163895
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Paperback: 508 pages
Publisher: Sams; 1st ed edition September 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1575213354
ISBN-13: 978-1575213354
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Review
As the title suggests, Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week is a straightforward tutorial, designed to provide you with enough information and practice to quickly begin coding for 4.0 browsers. While some titles lump multiple HTML topics together under the "Dynamic HTML" banner, this one sticks strictly to its subject, covering both Netscape and Microsoft implementations of scripting, HTML, and style sheets to create dynamic and interactive content. Advanced topics, such as the integration of multiple languages and objects into your Web site design, are also considered. Each chapter represents a day's lesson plan and covers a single topic in depth. Workshop and wrap-up sections are included in each lesson for hands-on practice. The appendices provide excellent reference for HTML 4, JavaScript, VBScript, and cascading style sheets. All of the included source code and HTML examples--as well as recommended Web creation utilities and electronic versions of related titles--are available on the book's companion Web site.
From Library Journal
"Dynamic HTML" is a euphemism for "the standard tags are not enough and you have to learn some programming." Hyman introduces the dynamic object model, Cascading Style Sheets, and scripting languages like VBscript and Jscript. Like most books in the IDG series, this one is well written and entertaining. One caveat: the examples are Microsoft-centric, and some of the nonstandard suggestions here will not be supported in Netscape. For larger collections as an adjunct to Campbell. Since Netscape still has about 60 percent of the browser market, web authors exclude a lot of readers by designing for Internet Explorer 4. Campbell's book is for folks who want to design for all browsers. In a two-chapters-per-day seminar, Campbell covers all the bases and nicely balances the hands-on practical tips with underlying theory. He concludes with some worthwhile thoughts on "How much dynamic is too much?" Highly recommended for both beginners and advanced HTML users moving to the dynamic model and JavaScript. While Darnell does not use the word "dynamic" in the title, his bible covers everything dynamic: HTML, JavaScript, ActiveX, Java and the CGI, and even XML. To cover all that ground, he makes some assumptions, so this is not a book for beginners. It can work as a great quick reference for power users. For larger collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I struggled through half the book before finally quitting. I have moderate experience with HTML and am quite experienced using Frontpage (Now using Frontpage 2000 Beta). The examples do not work using Frontpage 2000. (eg. FP2000 does not allow placing Javascript and CSS between the </head> and <body> tags,which the book stresses that you do). Too much of the book is taken up with the history and philosophy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Industry Standards. Very very disappointing. Not even deserving of one star.
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