The Project Cool Guide to Enhancing Your Website - Softcover

Martin, Teresa A.; Davis, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471194573 ISBN 13: 9780471194576

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Synopsis

In their previous book, The Project Cool Guide to HTML, Glenn Davis and Teresa A. Martin showed you how to create a Web site with basic HTML techniques. With this follow-up, they show you how to make your site cutting edge--with animation, sound, video, JavaScript, PDF, stylesheets, Metatags, and more. Companion Web site features an interactive section containing stylesheets, sample sound files and examples from the book, as well as support material on new technologies.

About this title

Review:

Directed at Web-site designers who want to spruce up their sites with interactivity, animation, and more, The Project Cool Guide covers the gamut of Web technologies: JavaScript, style sheets, Dynamic HTML, motion, and sound. First, you learn how to perform the following functions: improve the performance of your site by optimizing graphics and understanding Web-compliant color palettes; use meta tags to add automated functions and identify your site to search engines; and add a useful search feature that allows users to look up topics on your site. Next, the book teaches you how to add interactivity via JavaScript (several sample scripts are included for you to use or customize) and how to use cascading style sheets and Dynamic HTML to define styles, create reusable layouts, and program your pages to change on the fly. The authors instruct you on how to add animations via HTML tags, JavaScript, Animated GIFs, and plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash and Shockwave. You also learn about the authoring, distribution, and playback of sound and video files.

Throughout the book the authors address design considerations and deal with the differences between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer and how they'll display your pages, a topic that's more thoroughly discussed in the final chapter. A related Web site offers sample files and editable JavaScript scripts. If you're already a Web designer and want an introduction to advanced technologies in order to dress up a static Web site, give this book a close look.

From the Back Cover:

Together, Teresa Martin and Glenn Davis probably know more than any ten webmasters in the world about how to build a cool website. Besides being the founders of Project Cool--the ultimate online resource for webmasters and webmaster wannabes--Teresa and Glenn also bestow the "Project Cool Sighting" award upon only the best websites. Now, in this follow-up to their critically acclaimed The Project Cool Guide to HTML, they fill you in on all the latest tools and techniques for taking your site to exciting new levels of sophistication. In ten easy lessons, you'll learn how to use JavaScript, Shockwave, Cascading Style Sheets, Meta Tags, Dynamic HTML, and other hot new ways to enhance your site with:
* Automated graphics and sound effects, page reload, and more
* Search engines that make it easy for visitors to find what they're looking for
* Full interactivity, including pages that instantly re-create themselves for each visitor
* Eye-popping animation
* State-of-the-art sound and video.

But that's not all. The Project Cool Guide to Enhancing Your Website is the only guide that gives you actual, hands-on experience with the techniques and technologies it describes. Throughout the book, "Try It" icons direct you to the appropriate place on the companion website where you can enter code for a specific feature, click a button, and get immediate results!

The Project Cool Guide to Enhancing Your Website companion website at www.projectcool.com/guide/enhancing supplies you with:
* Ready-to-use interactive HTML forms and JavaScript scripts
* Live examples of all the multimedia effects in the book
* Tons of resources, including where to find software and graphics.

Visit our website at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471194573
• ISBN 13: 9780471194576
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416