Bill Harrel - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Mobile Development for Dummies

HTML, CSS & JavaScript Mobile Development For Dummies

by William Harrel

HTML, CSS & JavaScript Mobile Development For Dummies

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About the Author

William Harrel has nearly 25 years of digital design experience. He was one of the pioneers of publishing on desktop computers, starting with the very first digital design and graphics programs, PageMaker and Photoshop. Like so many of the early desktop publishers, with the emergence of the World Wide Web, he found that making the transition to web design was the next logical step. His design firm has designed hundreds of websites, Flash websites, and electronic documents. His earlier books on Photoshop, PageMaker, and digital media in general were some of the first publications on these topics.

William Harrel has authored or coauthored 19 books on designing both print media and electronic documents, such as websites, PDFs, Flash sites and Flash applications, slide and multimedia presentations, on computers. These include titles on Photoshop, Acrobat (Acrobat For Dummies), PageMaker, Flash, Director, and several other graphics and publishing packages.

His latest online courses, Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4, Introduction to Adobe Flash CS5, Intermediate Adobe Flash CS4, and Intermediate Adobe Flash CS5, are currently offered at more than 2,500 colleges and universities. These are fully accredited courses offering in-depth instruction on Flash, including lessons on developing Flash applications for handheld devices.

He has also written hundreds of magazine articles, ranging in subject matter from Mac, PC, and other hardware reviews to all types of software packages including page layout, graphics, web design, Flash, multimedia, and word processing in such notable magazines as PC World, Home Office Computing, Compute, Windows Magazine, Publish, Entrepreneur, Home Office, and many, many others. He currently reviews printers, notebook computers, and tablets for Computer Shopper.

Harrel's blog, Communications Technology Watch ( http://commtechwatch.com ), is a well-respected source for information related to media designed for and on computers. Communications Technology Watch contains volumes of material on using Flash and other applications, including most programs in the Adobe Creative Suite.

William Harrel was also the owner-operator of a nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP) for 14 years. In addition to hosting thousands of wWebsites, his ISP firm designed and maintained websites for hundreds of clients. The firm also specialized in Voice over IP (VoIP) telecommunications technology, which entailed (in part) designing web apps for integrating mobile devices into their customers' VoIP phone systems.

Harrel has managed and been the chief designer at his design firm for well over two decades. The firm has designed websites and other marketing material for such notable firms as the California Spine Institute, local Red Cross chapters, local chapters of Narcotics Anonymous, and scores of others. Nowadays, designing mobile versions of his clients' websites is part of the normal course of his firm's business.

Dedication

To my lovely 13-year-old daughter, Samantha, who puts up with my long and inconveniently timed hours sitting in front of a computer.

Author's Acknowledgments

If it weren't for the fine folks at Wiley Publishing, including Katie Feltman, Christopher Morris, Barry Childs-Helton, Debbye Butler, Brian Walls, and Ronald Norman, this book would not have been possible. These projects require a herculean effort on everybody's part. Thank you for the hard work in turning this into a top-notch publication.

Thanks also to Bill Sanders of sunlight.com for his tremendous help in developing the JavaScript sections of this book. Without his contributions, this book would not be nearly as complete a work on mobile website development. Bill stepped in and helped on a moment's notice, and I'm truly grateful.