Praise for Head Rush Ajax "If you thought Ajax was rocket science, this book is for you. Head Rush Ajax puts dynamic, compelling experiences within reach for every web developer." Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path "THE book for all of those web developers who want to get that Ajax attitude that everyone is talking about." Valentin Crettaz, CTO Condris Technologies, Switzerland "Head Rush Ajax is the book if you want to cut through all the hype and learn how to make your web apps sparkle... your users will love you for it!" Kristin Stromberg, Aguirre International "This stuff is brain candy; I can't get enough of it." Pauline McNamara, Center for New Technologies and Education, Fribourg University, Switzerland "If you know some HTML, a dollop of CSS, a little JavaScript, and a bit of PHP, but you're mystified about what all the Ajax hype is about, this is the book for you. Head Rush Ajax cuts through the hype and explains how to take your beginner web applications to the next level. Before you know it, you'll be writing next-generation web applications, and you'll actually understand how they work! You'll have a blast learning Ajax with Head Rush Ajax. By the time you've reached the end of this book, all those web technologies that didn't quite fit together in your head will all snap into place and you'll have The Ajax Power! You'll know the secrets behind some of the most popular web applications on the Internet. You'll impress your friends and co-workers with your knowledge of how those interactive maps and web forms really work. I can't imagine learning Ajax without Katie and Alex and Rufus and Jenny... all the friends you'll make on your fun-filled, exciting journey through Head Rush Ajax. And when you're done, not only will you be able to write next-generation web applications, you'll actually understand how they work." Elisabeth Freeman, Director, Technology The Walt Disney Internet Group Co-author of Head First Design Patterns and Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML Praise for Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML "I *heart* Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML it teaches you everything you need to learn in a 'fun coated' format!" Sally Applin, UI Designer and Fine Artist, http://sally.com. "This book has humor, and charm, but most importantly, it has heart. I know that sounds ridiculous to say about a technical book, but I really sense that at its core, this book (or at least its authors) really care that the reader learn the material. This comes across in the style, the language, and the techniques. Learning real understanding and comprehensionon the part of the reader is clearly top most in the minds of the Freemans. And thank you, thank you, thank you, for the book's strong, and sensible advocacy of standards compliance. It's great to see an entry level book, that I think will be widely read and studied, campaign so eloquently and persuasively on behalf of the value of standards compliance in web page code. I even found in here a few great arguments I had not thought ofones I can remember and use when I am askedas I still am'what's the deal with compliance and why should we care?' I'll have more ammo now! I also liked that the book sprinkles in some basics about the mechanics of actually getting a web page liveFTP, web server basics, file structures, etc." Robert Neer, Director of Product Development, Movies.com "Oh, great. You made an XHTML book simple enough a CEO can understand it. What will you do next? Accounting simple enough my developer can understand it? Next thing you know we'll be collaborating as a team or something." Janice Fraser, CEO, Adaptive Path "My wife stole the book. She's never done any web design, so she needed a book like Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML to take her from beginning to end. She now has a list of web sites she wants to buildfor our son's class, our family, ... If I'm lucky, I'll get the book back when she's done." David Kaminsky, Master Inventor, IBM "Beware. If you're someone who reads at night before falling asleep, you'll have to restrict Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML to daytime reading. This book wakes up your brain." Pauline McNamara, Center for New Technologies and Education, Fribourg University, Switzerland Praise for other Head First books "From the awesome Head First Java folks, this book uses every conceivable trick to help you understand and remember. Not just loads of pictures: pictures of humans, which tend to interest other humans. Surprises everywhere. Stories, because humans love narrative. (Stories about things like pizza and chocolate. Need we say more?) Plus, it's darned funny." Bill Camarda, READ ONLY "This book's admirable clarity, humor, and substantial doses of clever make it the sort of book that helps even non-programmers think well about problem-solving." Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing and author of "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" and "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" "I feel like a thousand pounds of books have just been lifted off of my head." Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and founder of the Hillside Group "This book is close to perfect, because of the way it combines expertise and readability. It speaks with authority and it reads beautifully. It's one of the very few software books I've ever read that strikes me as indispensable. (I'd put maybe 10 books in this category, at the outside.)" David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science, Yale University and author of "Mirror Worlds" and "Machine Beauty" "A Nose Dive into the realm of patterns, a land where complex things become simple, but where simple things can also become complex. I can think of no better tour guides than the Freemans." Miko Matsumura, Industry Analyst, The Middleware Company Former Chief Java Evangelist, Sun Microsystems "I laughed, I cried, it moved me." Daniel Steinberg, Editor-in-Chief, java.net "Just the right tone for the geeked-out, casual-cool guru coder in all of us. The right reference for practical development strategiesgets my brain going without having to slog through a bunch of tired, stale professor-speak." Travis Kalanick, Founder of Scour and Red Swoosh Member of the MIT TR100 "I literally love this book. In fact, I kissed this book in front of my wife." Satish Kumar | 