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作者：Christian Heilmann, Mark 'Norm' Norman Francis
出版日期：April 18, 2007
出版社：Friends of Ed
页数：280
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590598067 ISBN-13: 978-1590598061
文件格式：PDF
Product Description
As a web user, you’ll no doubt have noticed some of the breathtakingapplications available in today’s modern web, such as Google Maps andFlickrdesktop applications than the old style web sites you are usedto. You’ve probably also wished that you could create such things, andthen thought “nahhh, I’d need to know a lot of complicated code to beable to even start creating sites like these.” Well, think again. Thereis a lot of complicated code involved in cutting edge “Ajax style” webapplications, but a lot of the hard work is already done for you, andavailable on the Web. JavaScript libraries exist to provide most ofthat Ajax/DOM Scripting functionality out of the box. Applicationprogramming interfaces (APIs) exist to allow you to transplantcomplicated applications such as Google Maps and Flickr right into yourown web sites. And hosting services such as Flickr and YouTube provideall you need to store and retrieve your media (be it images, video, orwhatever) at your leisure, without having to worry about bandwidthissues and file naming nightmares. All you need to know is enough tosuccessfully wire together all this functionality successfully andresponsibly, and this book shows you how. It starts from the verybeginning of your journey, showing you what’s available, what you need,and how to set up an effective development environment. After a solidbase has been built, it shows you how to build up each aspect of yoursite, including storing, retrieving, and displaying content, addingimages and video to your site, building effective site navigation andlaying it all out beautifully using CSS, promoting your content so youwill attract visitors to your site, and adding special effects toenhance usability and design asthetics…all with ready-madefunctionality available on the Web! Life as a web developer has neverbeen easier.
About the Author
Christian Heilmann grew up in Germany and, after a year working withpeople with disabilities for the red cross, he spent a year as a radioproducer. From 1997 he worked for several agencies in Munich as a webdeveloper. In 2000 he moved to the States to work for Etoys and, afterthe .com crash, he moved to the UK where he currently works as a leaddeveloper for Agilisys. He publishes an almost daily blog athttp://wait-till-i.com and runs an article repository athttp://icant.co.uk. He is a member of the Web Standards Project’s DOMScripting Task Force.
Mark is a Londoner, born and bred. He spent many years doing variousIT jobs for City University, including working on the support desk andsystems administration. After tiring of the relaxed environment andlong holidays, he entered the real world. In 2000 he joined PurpleInteractive, a commercial web company with clients such as Barclays,IBM and Honda. One site produced there was an unofficial F1 site, lateracquired by Formula One Management. After leaving the world ofmotorsport, he joined Yahoo! in June 2004. He blogs athttp://cackhanded.net/.We want to identify as many opportunities aspossible surrounding this book and its technology cluster, events,resources, themes, broadcast opportunities, websites, etc. that couldhelp promote the book and get it seen by the end-customer.
