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The Web Wizard’s Guide To DHTML and CSS. Chapter 8 Putting It All Together and Moving Forward. Chapter Objectives. Confront design questions in navigating a large site Generate large amounts of content with a small amount of code
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The Web Wizard’s Guide To DHTML and CSS Chapter 8 Putting It All Togetherand Moving Forward
Chapter Objectives • Confront design questions in navigating a large site • Generate large amounts of content with a small amount of code • Combine collapsible menus with hypertext to display text and html HTML files in both inline frames and new windows • Learn about XML, SMIL, SVG, and other developing technologies
Designing with DHTML • Content Organization • Navigation Structure • Layout • Interactivity
Scripting for Efficiency • When presented with tedious copy paste, create scripts to do the work. • Use loops and document.write() to create repetitive HTML • Use variables to change content as needed • Escape nested quotes and forward slashes
Putting It All Together • Create collapsible menu using loops and document.write() • Include event handlers for hypertext • Insert and <iframe> to display HTML pages • Swap text node values to display captions • Give the visitor the option to open a new window
Emerging Standards • XML - Extensible Markup Language • XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup Language • SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language • SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics