Javascript

[Zimmer]

I am a total newb to JavaScript and was wondering how I would go about doing this?

[Strife25]

read the w3c tutorials on javascript, create a web page with javascript functionality.

Here are some links:

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Essential_Jav...script_Tutorial

http://www.w3schools.com/JS/default.asp

Must watch videos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...mp;q=john+resig

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=alex...0dojo&emb=0

Once you understand the standard functionality of how to use javascript, start to learn a framework if you are most interested in web development. With so many cross-browser problems, the frameworks help simplify development exponentially. For example, creating an AJAX call is normally ~20-30 lines of code just to grab a line of text from the server. With a framework, the AJAX changes into one method call to place the data into an object.

Some of the most popular ones are:

dojo

jquery

srip.tac.u.lous

prototype

Hope this helps.