PPK on Javascript
from Peter Paul Koch's Amazon blog 10:03 AM PDT, October 7, 2006
" ...If you're a standards-aware CSS wizard, this book is definitely for you. I wrote it with you specifically in mind, and I'll show you how to port CSS/Web standards principles such as separation of content and presentation, accessiblity, and structural HTML to a JavaScript environment. Here, too, these principles will make your life easier, and guarantee a quality web site for your clients.

If you're a server side programmer originally, come to web design and JavaScript on the wings of the Ajax hype, this book will teach you some valuable tricks that you need to know. It doesn't talk about libraries at all, but it contains all ingredients necessary for building a succesful one, or for solving an issue with an existing library. Besides, it will show you another way of looking at JavaScript, a way that isn't better or worse than the way of the Ajax hype, but simply different. Change of perspective often increases understanding. "

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Using this step-by-step workbook, you can teach yourself to use Adobe Captivate 3 and quickly create interactive eLearning lessons.

Recording

Text Captions and The Timeline

Images

Pointer Paths, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

Converting Demonstrations into Simulations

Rollovers and Zoom Areas

Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

Animation and Flash Video

Importing and Branching

Skins and Templates

Compliant Movies, Bandwidth and Publishing

Creating Quizzes

MenuBuilder

...and much, much more!

About the Author
Kevin A. Siegel is the founder and president of IconLogic, Inc. He has written more than 100 step-by-step computer training books...

Kevin spent five years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an award-winning photojournalist and has more than 23 years experience as a print publisher and technical writer. He is a certified technical trainer, has been a classroom instructor for more than 13 years and is a frequent speaker at trade shows and conventions.

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Advanced Javascript