2. The Web Wizard’s Guide To DHTML and CSS Chapter 8 Putting It All Together and Moving Forward

3. 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

4. Designing with DHTML Content Organization Navigation Structure Layout Interactivity

5. Scripting for Efficiency When presented with tedious copy paste, create scripts to do the work. Use loops and document.write() to create repetitive HTMLUse loops and document.write() to create repetitive HTML Use variables to change content as needed Escape nested quotes and forward slashes

6. Putting It All Together Create collapsible menu using loops and document.write() Include event handlers for hypertext Insert an to display HTML pages Swap text node values to display captions Give the visitor the option to open a new window

7. Putting It All Together

8. Emerging Standards XML - Extensible Markup Language XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup LanguageXHTML SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics