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March 26, 2002 ~ Issue #16 |
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A Bonehead's Guide to JavaScript,
Part 1
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Kewl Stuph |
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Featured Tool: SiteStats.com
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Featured Site: Happy Tree Friends (Hey,
it's Easter, right?)
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Featured Script: Background Slideshow
Script
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e-Potpourri: Web Tutorials... from
my old University?!??
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Newz Flashes |
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CIW books from Bookpool.com
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JavaScript in Macromedia Dreamweaver
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A Bonehead's Guide to JavaScript, Part
1
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Our divine
;De dives into scripting this week...
JavaScript
is a great skill to have in your arsenal of web tools. JavaScript
can make your web pages dazzle or irritate, be more dynamic or
less functional, look professional or amateurish. JavaScript is
like dust: it’s everywhere; you just don’t notice it
unless there is a ton of it lying in one place. So, sometimes,
less is more. Like anything on the web, too much is annoying,
ugly and distracts from the real purpose of the page. It’s
a careful balance to keep in mind. So, don’t get too carried
away with too many scripts all at once.
One
good thing about JavaScript is that many, many scripts are freely
available on the web, and you can easily “borrow” the
script for your site. The problem is that doesn’t make you
a JavaScript guru anytime soon. You’ve all probably seen
JavaScript code and have at least a vague sense of what it looks
like and can do, but when it comes to coding it yourself, you
may be shy and standoffish--at least until you really understand
what you are doing.
The
only real way to get a sense of what JavaScript does and can do
is to start typing. Start typing out simple scripts to understand
how they really work. You need a solid, working knowledge of HTML
before you dive into JavaScript.
Let
me start with 3 quick helpful suggestions to remember:
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JavaScript
is case-sensitive. Very important to know.
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Almost
all JavaScript errors are caused by typos. So, type carefully,
and check your scripts over.
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JavaScript
does NOT act the same in different browsers, so you need to
test it in multiple browsers...Internet Explorer and Netscape
being the minimum to test your code out first.
Okay,
let’s learn JavaScript!...
Read
the rest...
This week's feature by
Cherina Sparks
debaucherry
Comments or questions? Check out the CIW
Insider Forum
Where the wild things are....
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Kewl Stuph |
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Kewl
Tool - SiteStats.com
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Site
Stats gives you all this information, with:
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Reliable web traffic reporting, live on the web
- Real-time traffic monitoring, 24 hours a day
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Reporting weekly and monthly traffic, by email
Site
Stats is a hosted web activity tracking solution. Here's what
this means:
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Hosted - the service is provided by our computers and databases
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activity - people around the world reading your web site
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Tracking - we capture activity data in our stats databases
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Solution - we deliver real-time and weekly web traffic reports
to
you
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Kewl Site - Happy
Tree Friends (Hey, it's Easter, right?)
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First
let me say, you really have to have a great sense of humour to
enjoy this. Second let me say, that having a really twisted and
totally messed up sense of humour is even better to really enjoy
this.... twisted piece of Easter animation. (Let's just say that
ByteBackNews giggled for half a day. Nuff said. This is twisted.)
Don't
say I didn't warn ya.... (headphones on, beverages to the side,
look around for the boss, and click)
Happy
Easter...
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This
is a funky JavaScript from CodeLifter.com. What they say about
it: " This runs an image slideshow in the background of the
page, underneath the page content. Used with the accompanying
style script, images are discretely positionable in the page space,
just like a regular slideshow. Leave out the style script, and
the slideshow runs with full page-space presentation. IE 4.0+
or NS 6.0 (degrades gracefully in others)."
Pretty
cool, actually. Here's just Step
1 of 3:
<script
language="JavaScript">
<!--
//
(C) 2001 www.CodeLifter.com
// http://www.codelifter.com
// Free for all users, but leave in this header
//
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// set the following variables
// =======================================
//
Set speed (milliseconds)
var speed = 1000
//
Specify the image files
var Pic = new Array() // don't touch this
// to add more images, just continue
// the pattern, adding to the array below
Pic[0]
= 'slideshow1_1.jpg'
Pic[1] = 'slideshow1_2.jpg'
Pic[2] = 'slideshow1_3.jpg'
Pic[3] = 'slideshow1_4.jpg'
Pic[4] = 'slideshow1_5.jpg'
//
=======================================
// do not edit anything below this line
// =======================================
var
t
var j = 0
var p = Pic.length
var
preLoad = new Array()
for (i = 0; i < p; i++){
preLoad[i] = new Image()
preLoad[i].src = "Pic[i]
}
function
runBGSlideShow(){
if (document.body){
document.body.background = "Pic[j];
j = j + 1
if (j > (p-1)) j=0
t = setTimeout('runBGSlideShow()', speed)
}
}
//-->
</script>
Click
the link below to see Steps 2 and 3. Personally, I'd get rid of
most of the comments if I were using this on my site. This looks
slick, and there's a demo there, too.
;De'lightful
script this week...
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Every
so often I see something on the web that makes me say something
like "holy cow" or "what the?!" but with words
that I really can't publish here in this newsletter. Discovering
this link was one of those occasions.
This
link is a stack of free web tutorials and web sites, but it's
from my old university. I was shocked that they were so..... organised
and with it. So, I'm giving them some air time in my newsletter.
My perogative. There is a TON of useful stuff here that you can
fave and save. Check it out...
Wecome
to the University of Alberta...
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Newz Flashes |
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for them? Then check out Bookpool.com, or favourite web site for
discounted technical and certification books.
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Using JavaScript in Macromedia Dreamweaver |
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"Macromedia's
Dreamweaver is one of the most popular visual HTML editing tools.
And for good reason -- it's powerful, accessible, and it generates
pretty good code. During Dreamweaver's evolution, Macromedia has
added some interesting new features -- most notable for our purposes
is the enhanced JavaScript functionality.
Not
only the application is scriptable, it (almost) supports the DOM
Level 1 spec and defines its own JavaScript-API with more than
400 different functions. It's also possible to customize the menus
and incorporate new commands into it.
In
this column I'm going to show you how to get inside of Dreamweaver
and manipulate the functions defined by the JavaScript-API. As
an example of the mischief you can create once using Dreamweaver
commands, I'll give you step by step instructions for adding word
count capability to the application..."
OOoooooh
Dreamy ...
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CIW Insider is written
by Cherina Sparks, an aficionado of
neato, kewl stuph on the web, who definitely spends
too much time in front of her computer ;De
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