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Building Interactive Web Sites with CSS, DHTML and Ajax

Description

Even with highspeed internet connections becoming more the norm, the demand is still for faster, more responsive web pages. Ajax allows you send information to the server and refresh the content on the page without having to resubmit the entire page. In combination with CSS and JavaScript, Ajax allows you to create interactive web pages that look great and respond to the user quickly. This course will cover the basics of CSS, DHTML with JavaScript and Ajax. A knowledge of HTML is a must. You will need a tool for creating web pages. Many are available for free.

Objectives

Students will create a web page using CSS formatting.
Students will add use CSS to add text formatting to their web pages.
Students will use CSS to add layout formatting to their web pages.
Students will use CSS to add formatting to tables and lists.
Students will add DHTML to their web pages.
Students will use DHTML to learn about the browser, events and objects on the web page.
Students will use DHTML to change the CSS dynamically on their web pages.
Students will add Ajax to make their web pages dynamic.
Students will use CSS, DHTML and Ajax to build dynamic web pages.
Students will create a final project to show what they learned in the class.

Book

CSS, DHTML & AJAX

Author: Jason Teague
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0-321-44325-X

Lesson 1: CSS Basics

Read Chapters 1 and 2

Lesson 2: Formatting Text with CSS

Read Chapters 3, 4, and 5

Lesson 3: Visual Formatting with CSS

Read Chapters 6, 7 and 8

Lesson 4: Formatting Tables and Lists

Read Chapters 9 and 10

Lesson 5: Dynamic HTML Basics

Read Chapters 11 and 12

Lesson 6: Using DHTML to Learn About Events

Read Chapters 13, 14 and 15

Lesson 7: Dynamic CSS

Read Chapters 16, 17 and 18

Lesson 8: Ajax Basics

Read Chapters 19 and 20

Lesson 9: CSS, DHTML and Ajax

Read Chapters 21 - 24

Lesson 10: Putting it All Together

Review Chapters 1 - 24