Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy (Paperback)

Description

As a web user, you'll no doubt have noticed some of the breathtaking applications available in today's modern web, such as Google Maps and Flickr—desktop applications than the old style web sites you are used to. You've probably also wished that you could create such things, and then thought "nahhh, I'd need to know a lot of complicated code to be able to even start creating sites like these." Well, think again.

There is a lot of complicated code involved in cutting edge "Ajax style" web applications, but a lot of the hard work is already done for you, and available on the Web. JavaScript libraries exist to provide most of that Ajax/DOM Scripting functionality out of the box. Application programming interfaces (APIs) exist to allow you to transplant complicated applications such as Google Maps and Flickr right into your own web sites. And hosting services such as Flickr and YouTube provide all you need to store and retrieve your media (be it images, video, or whatever) at your leisure, without having to worry about bandwidth issues and file naming nightmares.

All you need to know is enough to successfully wire together all this functionality successfully and responsibly, and this book shows you how. It starts from the very beginning of your journey, showing you what's available, what you need, and how to set up an effective development environment. After a solid base has been built, it shows you how to build up each aspect of your site, including storing, retrieving, and displaying content, adding images and video to your site, building effective site navigation and laying it all out beautifully using CSS, promoting your content so you will attract visitors to your site, and adding special effects to enhance usability and design asthetics...all with ready-made functionality available on the Web! Life as a web developer has never been easier.

描述

作為一個網路使用者，你肯定會注意到現代網路上提供的一些令人驚嘆的應用程式，例如Google Maps和Flickr，這些應用程式比你熟悉的舊式網站更具備桌面應用程式的特點。你可能也希望能夠創建這樣的應用程式，然後又想到「不，我需要了解很多複雜的程式碼才能開始創建這樣的網站。」但是，請再次考慮一下。

現代「Ajax風格」的網路應用程式確實涉及很多複雜的程式碼，但是其中很多艱難的工作已經為你完成，並且可以在網路上找到。JavaScript函式庫可以提供大部分Ajax/DOM Scripting的功能。應用程式編程介面（API）可以讓你將複雜的應用程式（例如Google Maps和Flickr）直接嵌入到你自己的網站中。而像Flickr和YouTube這樣的托管服務可以提供你所需的儲存和檢索媒體（無論是圖片、視頻還是其他內容），而不必擔心頻寬問題和文件命名的困擾。

你只需要了解足夠的知識，以成功且負責任地將所有這些功能連接在一起，而本書將向你展示如何做到這一點。它從你的旅程的開始處開始，向你展示了可用的資源、你需要的東西以及如何建立一個有效的開發環境。在建立了堅實的基礎之後，它將向你展示如何建立網站的每個方面，包括儲存、檢索和顯示內容，將圖片和視頻添加到你的網站，使用CSS建立有效的網站導航並美觀地排版，推廣你的內容以吸引訪問者，並添加特殊效果以增強可用性和設計美感...所有這些都可以在網路上找到現成的功能！作為網路開發人員的生活從未如此輕鬆。