Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide

by Charles Wyke-Smith

JavaScript is the brains of your Web page—it enables you to modify a document’s structure, styling, and content in response to user actions without requesting new pages from the server. Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax teaches you how to master this powerful and elegant language so you can develop intuitive user interactions that take the user experience to new levels of sophistication and responsiveness.

Today’s application-like Web experiences (such as Salesforce.com and Google Maps) and Web 2.0 sites (such as Flickr.com and Twitter) are powered by JavaScript and Ajax. Using the techniques shown in this book, you will be able to start creating similar experiences in the sites you design.

Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax will teach you how

312 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Charles Wyke-Smith has been involved in media production for his entire career. In the mid-80s, he co-founded PRINTZ Electronic Design, an early, all-computerized design studio in San Francisco. He has worked in management and consulting roles at Wells Fargo, ESPN Videogames, and Benefitfocus, where he was Director of User Experience. In 2009, he co-founded PeopleMatter, an HR platform for the services industries. He is currently CEO of a new startup, Bublish, a book discovery platform.
Charles is a performing musician and author of several Web development books, including Stylin’ with CSS, Codin’ for the Web, Scriptin’ with AJAX, and Visual Stylin’ with CSS3. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

[Cody · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like I have a greater understanding of JavaScript and some of the more popular frameworks because of this book. It also has glossaries in the back of some frequently used JS methods for interacting with various objects and elements of the DOM. The two examples at the back of the book are a little outdated, I think (He uses YUI to make a page that returns Yahoo! Maps of all Yahoo!'s offices worldwide. And makes an image carousel, which I had heard was a design faux paux in 2015.) But the information is still helpful because he mostly deals with implementing the jQuery and JSON and JavaScript that enables those functions.