Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals (Prentice Hall Essential Web Professionals Series) - Softcover

Livingston, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130649953 ISBN 13: 9780130649959

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

95% of all Web users now have CSS/DHTML compatible browsers. Now's the time to leverage these technologies to build sites that load faster, look hotter, and work better! In this fully updated best-seller, two renowned Web developers help you master CSS and DHTML -- hands-on! Learn how to use CSS and DHTML to build real-world sites that sell products, educate visitors, display ads, present quizzes, and deliver sophisticated interactivity. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of CSS style sheets, including the STYLE Tags; Z-Index stacking; and more. The authors demonstrate how to add DHTML-based interactivity; build pop-ups for search and secondary navigation; create splash screens; and much more. The book also includes practical solutions for reliable cross-browser coding. All finished sample sites and applications are on the Web -- so developers can reuse the code, and see exactly how their pages should look and work.

About this title

About the Author

DAN LIVINGSTON, founder of Wire Man Productions, is a leading-edge Web designer, serving clients such as Apple, Novell, Pacific Bell, and Landor. His sites, which have garnered awards from Yahoo! and USA Today, have been featured on CNN and praised by the Los Angeles Times.

From the Back Cover

• Get results with CSS and DHTML(today!
• Fully updated with the latest techniques and code samples
• Learn from real-world examples with downloadable, reusable programming code
• Specific solutions! e-commerce, search, advertising, quizzes, cross-browser coding, and more
• Build sites that load faster, look hotter, work better!

Today 95% of all Web users have browsers compatible with Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML. So now's the time to leverage these technologies to build sites that load faster and work better than ever. In this fully updated best-seller, a world-renowned Web developer helps you master CSS and DHTML―hands-on! You'll use CSS and DHTML to build real-world practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, display ads, present quizzes, and deliver sophisticated interactivity. Plus, the author provides code for handling Netcape 6's quirks. Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web―so you can reuse the code and see exactly how your pages should look and work!

You'll learn all this and much more!

• Stylesheet fundamentals: <STYLE>, <DIV>, Z-Index stacking, and <SPAN>
• Adding DHTML-based interactivity
• Building pop-up search windows
• Using JavaScript pop-up secondary navigation
• Building feature splash screens
• Cross-browser coding: practical solutions, pitfalls to avoid
• Coding for layer visibility; animating and dragging layers
• Preparing a storefront for HTML
• Building and enhancing interactive quizzes

Look to Essential Books for ALL the Web Skills You Need!

All these books share the same great format and the same dynamic Web site―so once you've used one, learning from the others is a piece of cake!

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• With more to come!

Raves for the first edition of Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals:

"I'm working through your excellent book on CSS and DHTML and applying it to a JavaScript form-based document of mine. Keep up the good work!"

―Andrew Harrison

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130649953
• ISBN 13: 9780130649959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288