Synopses & Reviews
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/
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 the Author
TERESA A. MARTIN is a celebrated interactive media guru.
GLENN DAVIS is an internationally renowned web developer. Teresa and Glenn are cofounders of Project Cool(r), a top online resource for webmasters.
Table of Contents
Enhancing Graphics.
Working with Meta Tags.
Adding Search to Your Site.
Adding Interactivity with JavaScript.
Using Cascading Style Sheets.
Using Dynamic HTML.
Adding Animation.
Adding Sound and Video.
Cross Browser, Cross Platform, Cross Design.
Appendices.
Afterword.
Index.