Dynamic HTML Black Book

By Natanya Pitts-Moultis, C.C. Sandars & Ramesh Chandak
Published February, 1998

Your best tool for adding DHTML interactivity or multimedia to your Web site

Among its arsenal of interactive tools, tips, and tricks, Dynamic HTML Black Book covers:

Microsoft, Netscape, and W3C standards for DHTML
The Document Object Model (DOM)
Using style sheets
Handling events in DHTML
Working with databases and other data sources
Multimedia, graphics, and sound
Netscape's DHTML layers
Case studies of cool DHTML Web sites

Dynamic HTML Black Book provides the information that both novices and experienced Webmasters need to bring exciting interactivity to their Web pages. The authors provide the most up-to-date information on DHTML, related scripting languages, and relevant standards. They also delve into hands-on tips and tricks today's developers need to create pages for Internet Explorer, Netscape, or both. You'll find everything you need to bring multimedia interaction to your Web pages. This is the only resource you'll need to bring a wealth of sights, sounds, interactive menus -- and more -- to your Web site.

The book's CD-ROM includes

DHTML tools, including trial versions of Macromedia's Shockwave, Flash, and Director
Graphics, movies, and music samples from Chris Brown and Vcommunications
All URLS and resource pointers, ready to access
All code samples from the book, organized by chapter

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Book information:

Shows how to use both Netscape's and Microsoft's versions of DHTML. Contains information on how to use the entire palette of features in Dynamic HTML to produce all kinds of dynamic components. Improves content developers' ability to create more interactive Web pages, which will give users a richer and more compelling Web experience. Demonstrates how to apply multimedia effects on components like text, colors, graphics, animation, sound, synchronized media packages, and layouts. Teaches how to connect Dynamic HTML content with databases to produce data-aware environments. Provides Web site developers with enhanced control over the appearance and behavior of Web pages.

Dynamic HTML Black Book. Natanya Pitts-Moultis, C.C. Sandars, and Ramesh Chandak. The Coriolis Group, Scottsdale, AZ, 1998. ISBN: 1-57610-188-6.