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JavaScript Design
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by William B. Sanders and Bill Sanders
Sales Rank: 734676
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$2.37
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Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: New Riders Press; 1st edition December 12, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735711674
ISBN-13: 978-0735711679
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Product Description
JavaScript Design shows designers how to create interactive JavaScript applications for the web. It provides detailed descriptions of JavaScript structures, statements and objects, using JavaScript to create different elements of a web page,controlling a page's overall design and function with JavaScript, passing data and variables between clients and servers. Also covered are advanced topics server-side languages: PHP, Perl, ASP, CGI, XML, connections to Java and Cold Fusion. The line between developers and designers is fading. Designers are challenged with projects that require them to have a strong knowledge of the server side issues traditionally fielded by a web developer. Designers are looking for books that teach them the web developer knowledge in a language in which they are accustomed.
Back Cover Copy
JavaScript Design shows designers how to create interactive JavaScript applications for the web. It provides detailed descriptions of JavaScript structures, statements and objects, using JavaScript to create different elements of a web page,controlling a page's overall design and function with JavaScript, passing data and variables between clients and servers. Also covered are advanced topics server-side languages: PHP, Perl, ASP, CGI, XML, connections to Java and Cold Fusion. The line between developers and designers is fading. Designers are challenged with projects that require them to have a strong knowledge of the server side issues traditionally fielded by a web developer. Designers are looking for books that teach them the web developer knowledge in a language in which they are accustomed.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book worked for me, and I think I know why. First of all, anyone who writes book on JavaScript takes a huge risk. Either the author tries to say everything and gets tangled up, or it's a gimmick book. This book is neither. The author tries to stick to the EMCA standards, which I believe is laudable. If the browsers did the same thing, we'd all be better off. So no matter who writes such a book, something is going to be left out, and this book leaves out the browser-idiosyncratic nonsense and sticks to the standards. Second, the book bridges HTML with the back end. As a designer, I get clients who want something done with the forms in HTML. JavaScript can handle a lot of the variable manipulation through forms, but let's face it, until it links up to a database, you've got bupkis. This book bridges that gap with several middleware examples, and introduced me (thankfully) to PHP. The book has enough for me to get something that actually works with a database and middleware. I went out and bought a book on PHP and MySQL (as the author recommends), but this book gave me a working start on middleware and using databases, and I know of no other JavaScript book that does this. Also, I plunked down the princely sum of about [...] for a hosting service with PHP and MySQL. All of the software for PHP/MySQL/Apache Server is free, but use a hosting service to learn how to use it. As far as the readability, it's clear as a bell, but it does go from the simple to the complex as the material gets more complex. I downloaded the sample chapter from www.newriders.com before I bought the book. It tackles JavaScript 1.5 so it's up to date, and I liked the example glossary. It's the kind of book (for me at least) that you read what you need and then look up stuff in. I feel I got a complete JavaScript book with the added bonus of the middleware/back-end.
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JavaScript Design
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