Teach Yourself VBScript in 21 Days

Publisher: SAMS.NET
Author: Keith Brophy and Timothy Koets
ISBN: 1575211203
Publication Date: 01-AUG-96
Retail Price: $39.99

Teach Yourself VBScript in 21 Days starts with the basics of writing programs and then moves on to adding voice, music, sound, and graphics. Using a logical and easy-to-follow sequence, Teach Yourself VBScript in 21 Days helps you understand the principles involved in developing robust scripts for your Web pages.

The hands-on approach of this tutorial quickly moves you from the basics to more advanced scripting techniques. Through day-to-day lessons, exercises, practical applications, summaries, and week-at-a-glance and Q& sections, you will quickly learn how to add interactivity, multimedia, sound, animation, and graphics to your Web pages. You will also learn how to embed VBScript within HTML documents to add dimension to your static Web page.

• Integrate ActiveX components into your VBScript solutions!
• Use VBScript to check for the name of the current browser and carry out customized actions
• Access the location, referrer page, and time of last modification for the current page right from your VBScript code!
• Learn to write VBScript code that is robust through the err object and clever validation and error handling.
• Maximize the properties of the host browser "document" object from VBScript to generate dynamic Web page content!
• Produce VBScript code that responds to mouse movement over objects on a page!