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Building Interactive Web Sites with CSS, DHTML and Ajax

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.

To get started:

  • Click on the Syllabus link below to find information about the course and the book
  • Click on Introductions link to meet your instructor and introduce yourself
  • Post any questions you have in Questions and Comments
 
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Lesson 1: CSS Basics

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the new wave in web page formatting. Using CSS with layers give you greater control over page layout and formatting than you can get with HTML.

In this lesson we will take a look at how to define CSS in a web page and some of the options we have for using it.

For this course you will need at least a basic understanding of HTML. If you are not familiar with HTML please take a few moments to go through this tutorial:

http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp
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