Netskills Workshop:
Dynamic Web Pages with JavaScript
9:30 - 4:30 Thursday 15th April 1999 University of Bristol
Workshop Content:
The workshop will comprise presentations, demonstrations and
hands-on sessions with opportunities for questions and discussion.
Participants will each receive a workbook which contains workshop
exercises, presentation slides and other relevant materials.
Many people now have the basic skills to develop simple Web pages using
HTML. Having produced these pages which are attractive and functional,
authors would like to progress to more dynamic and interactive content.
Examples include reacting to user mouse and keyboard actions, configurable
pages and local processing of data, most of which are beyond the
capabilities of HTML. JavaScript provides a simple extension to HTML
which is easy to learn and can quickly produce sophisticated and
effective results. Anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML can enhance the potential of their Web site for teaching, learning, marketing and general information provision
using JavaScript.
This is a practical workshop for World Wide Web authors. The workshop
focuses on the issues and practical aspects of designing and creating
JavaScript-based Web pages. Whilst it may be attended as a stand-alone
workshop, it also follows on from the popular Netskills workshop
"Authoring on the Web", and is a natural companion to the Netskills
workshop "Creating Interactive Web Pages".
Topics covered include:
gaining a basic knowledge of JavaScript
adding interactivity to Web pages
examples of JavaScript in action
the concepts of actions and events
JavaScript functions and variables
dynamic images
manipulating forms with JavaScript
overview of standards and browser compatibility
controlling browser behaviour
overview of interfacing with Java Applets and plugins
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
explored a variety of interactive JavaScript techniques
investigated a number of examples of use of JavaScript on the Web
developed JavaScript-based Web pages
integrated JavaScript with Web forms
created JavaScript functions and variables
Workshop Requirements:
Participants should have previously used the World Wide Web through
a browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer and MUST have
authored simple Web pages using HTML.
Knowledge of basic HTML tags such as those for including images
and hypertext links is essential. An awareness of how to create
Web forms would be useful. Experience of using Microsoft Windows
for opening and saving files would be helpful. Note that this workshop does NOT require programming skills from
participants, and is not designed to provide comprehensive
programming competency.
The cost of the workshop is 99 pounds for participants from higher
and further education. Other participants should contact Netskills
for the relevant fees.
Note: Costs include lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea.
For more information about Netskills workshops, including
online booking forms, look at the Netskills event pages on the World
Wide Web at:
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/
or contact Netskills directly by email:
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or by Fax:
0191 222 5001
or leave a request for booking forms on the bookings hotline:
0191 222 5008
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