The Features

The sample site provides general information about this book. It contains the following features:

• General information about the book
• Information about the authors
• Links to useful resources
• An electronic version of this book
• Links to all the code listings
• User-definable appearance (customization)
• A DHTML expanding menu on the left of the screen (for supporting browsers)
• Navigation through a drop-down list
• Pages that automatically load themselves in the correct frameset

• Support for Internet Explorer 3.02 and later and Netscape 3 and later.

  The sample site uses many specific coding techniques, including:

• Use of frames, tables, forms, style sheets, the Object Model, and cookies
• Cross-frame scripting
• Links to external CSS and JS files
• Browser detection
• Dynamic content through document.write

• Dynamic event handling, based on browser type

  Figure 24-1 shows the home page of our sample site, as viewed in Internet Explorer.

Figure 24-1. The home page for our Web site.